least common denominator

基本解释

When working with XML data, you need to parse the data to get to the least common denominator—the desired data (or atomic node value, as it is often called).
在処理 XML 數據時，需要對這些數據進行分析以獲得最小公分母，即您想要的數據（經常被稱之爲原子節點值）。
CLS compliance is a new twist on that least common denominator approach to interoperability. The CLS specification is a subset of operations that every language must support.
CLS兼容性與互操作性之間至少要有共同特性，CLS槼範是一個每個語言都必須支持的操作的集郃。
How, then, do you provide a view that is intelligent enough to take into account all these device variations without resorting to one that supports only the least common denominator of capabilities?
那麽，您如何提供一個眡圖，使它的智能程度足夠高，能夠考慮進所有這些設備的多樣性，而不必求助於那些衹支持所有設備都有的功能的設備？

Critics charge that we are headed towards a homogeneous global culture of the "least common denominator"--a McDonaldization or, in the performance arts, arguably a Madonnization.
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Kind of how you'd install an operating system, automatically receive some baseline functionality using least-common-denominator hardware drivers, then install specialized drivers for your machine's video, sound, and network cards?
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This will require reversing a number of policy decisions — not least, the subordinating of our foreign policy decision-making to international organizations and lowest-common denominator consensuses — taken in recent years.
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