downplayed
英 [ˌdaʊnˈpleɪd]
美 [ˌdaʊnˈpleɪd]
v. 对…轻描淡写; 使轻视; 贬低
downplay的过去分词和过去式
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.- The government is trying to downplay the violence.
政府试图对暴力行为低调处理。 - ...to downplay the dangers of nuclear accidents.
对核事故的危险轻描淡写
- The government is trying to downplay the violence.
双语例句
- He "downplayed" the possibility of holding last-ditch talks with Iraq in switzerland.
他“淡化”了在瑞士与伊拉克进行最后阶段谈判的可能性。 - "I must confess that over my career, I've actually downplayed the importance of DJs," says Peter Hook.
我必须承认,在我的音乐历程中,之前的确忽视了DJ的重要性。 - Traditional aspects of Korean culture tend to be downplayed or ignored in North Korea.
在朝鲜,其传统文化大有被忽略之势。 - Meanwhile, the athlete downplayed the fact that his time equaled the world record.
同时,他的个人成绩也追平了世界纪录。 - The report downplayed the effects of large class sizes in schools.
报告对学校大班级规模的影响一带而过。 - State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland on Thursday downplayed the incident.
美国国务院发言人纽兰星期四对这一事件进行了淡化处理。 - On Tuesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke downplayed bank takeover talk, helping the stock market bounce off12-year lows.
周二,美联储主席本·伯南克打消了政府将接管银行的传言,促使股市从12年来的低点开始反弹。 - He also downplayed the extent to which the American model attracts people the world over: the Chinese business elite are much more interested in Silicon Valley than in their Confucian past.
同时,他也忽视了美国榜样对全世界的吸引力&对中国的商业精英们来说,比起他们的儒家传统,他们对美国硅谷(SiliconValley)更有兴趣。 - Executives at Goldman and Morgan Stanley yesterday downplayed those fears, saying they had been reducing leverage since the onset of the credit crunch and arguing they would be able to make up for it by working harder in other areas.
高盛和摩根士丹利的高管昨日对这些担心表示不以为然。他们表示,自信贷紧缩爆发以来,他们一直在降低杠杆水平,并且表示,通过在其它方面更加努力的工作,他们可以弥补这方面的损失。 - A spokesman for the Palace downplayed claims the assassination raid had anything to do with the delay.
英国王室的一位发言人对突袭拉登造成蜜月延期一事没有正面回应。