downplay

英 [ˌdaʊnˈpleɪ]

美 [ˌdaʊnˈpleɪ]

v.  对…轻描淡写; 使轻视; 贬低

现在分词：downplaying　过去式：downplayed　过去分词：downplayed　第三人称单数：downplays　

GRE

Collins.1 / BNC.33706 / COCA.9908

牛津词典

verb

• 对…轻描淡写；使轻视；贬低
  to make people think that sth is less important than it really is
  1. The coach is downplaying the team's poor performance.
     教练对这个队的拙劣表现不以为然。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 对…轻描淡写;使轻视;贬低
  If youdownplaya fact or feature, you try to make people think that it is less important or serious than it really is.
  1. The government is trying to downplay the violence.
     政府试图对暴力行为低调处理。
  2. ...to downplay the dangers of nuclear accidents.
     对核事故的危险轻描淡写

英英释义

verb

• understate the importance or quality of
  1. he played down his royal ancestry
  Synonym:backgroundplay down
• represent as less significant or important
  Synonym:understateminimizeminimise

双语例句

• Every time something wonderful happens to you, you downplay it.
  你每次有什么好事都很低调。
• Jonathan Pershing, the US chief negotiator at Copenhagen, tried to downplay America's contribution to climate change.
  美国哥本哈根主要谈判代表试图去低调处理美国对于气候变迁的‘贡献’。
• It's also that, when this less flattering data came to light in2007, some researchers tried to downplay it.
  而是在2007年这个并不讨好的数据出现的时候，有些专家试图低调处理它。
• But my life this unique and incredible experience is what I want to downplay it.
  但我人生中这段与众不同且不可思议的经历恰恰是我想淡化的。
• In general, people downplay their unhealthy habits, preferring instead to blame disease on factors beyond their control: their genes or environmental factors such as mobile phones or radiation.
  一般来说，人们会低估自己的不良习惯的影响，而偏向将病因归结于那些他们无法控制的因素，比如基因或手机、辐射等环境因素。
• Some people appear to downplay positive aspects of their situations to limit their expectations and help them feel less pressured.
  有些人似乎在低调处理自己处境中的积极方面为此来限制自己的期望值，帮助他们感到压力更少。
• Don't change along with time yes, this kind of injury will slowly downplay, after many years again recall, just abundant life of experience just.
  不是的，随着时间推移，这种伤害会慢慢淡化，许多年后再回忆，只是丰富了人生的经历罢了。
• And I don't mean to downplay engineering at all.
  我不是说要贬低工程工作。
• On visits home I had to make a conscious decision whether to exaggerate or downplay the exoticism.
  回到美国后，我得有意识地做个决定，对在北京生活的这段日子，是说得夸张一点好呢，还是平淡一点好。
• As we make our way through the paces of our work and home lives, it's easy to downplay or put off things that have nothing to do with keeping on schedule or paying the bills.
  在一步步完成工作和家庭生活各个环节的同时，我们很容易忽视甚至推延那些和日常日程或费用不相干的事。