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).
在处理 XML 数据时，需要对这些数据进行分析以获得最小公分母，即您想要的数据（经常被称之为原子节点值）。
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兼容性与互操作性之间至少要有共同特性，CLS规范是一个每个语言都必须支持的操作的集合。
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?
那么，您如何提供一个视图，使它的智能程度足够高，能够考虑进所有这些设备的多样性，而不必求助于那些只支持所有设备都有的功能的设备？

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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