reductive paraphrase

The basic idea of the NSM approach is reductive paraphrase ? we should try to describe complex meanings in terms of simpler ones.
該理論的基本觀點是還原釋義，即在解釋詞義時應盡量使用比原詞義更簡單的意義對那些具有複襍和文化特異性的詞義進行描述。