water down

英 [ˈwɔːtə(r) daʊn]

美 [ˈwɔːtər daʊn]

加水稀释; 掺水冲淡; 使（提议、言论、声明等）语气缓和; 使打折扣; 削弱

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 加水稀释;掺水冲淡
  If youwater downa substance, for example food or drink, you add water to it to make it weaker.
  1. You can water down a glass of wine and make it last twice as long...
     你可以往杯里的葡萄酒中掺点水，当两杯来喝。
  2. I bought a water-based paint, then decided to water it down even more.
     我买了一种水性漆，然后决定加水进一步稀释。
• See also:Proposed legislation affecting bird-keepers has been watered down.watered-down

英英释义

verb

• thin by adding water to
  1. They watered down the moonshine
• make less strong or intense
  1. water down the mixture

双语例句

• They had piped the water down.
  他们已用管道把水引到下面。
• Save your wee in milk cartons, water down and use as a high nitrate fertilizer.
  在牛奶盒里小便，加水稀释，然后可以用作高硝酸盐含量的肥料。
• The scientists said the best explanation they could offer for the streaks was that they were caused by a flow of extremely salty water down the slopes.
  科学家他们说，能提供的对条纹的最合理的解释是，它们是由流下陡坡高盐度的水流造成的。
• You'd better water down your demand.
  你最好降低一下要求。
• Nevertheless, you have to be careful you don't water down excellent ideas so much that they lose their original strength – because you're making hundreds of thousands of compromises.
  不过，你必须小心别过分稀释了伟大的创意以致失去了它原本的力量-只因你作出了成百上千的妥协。
• He rushed into the kitchen and got a bucket and poured all the boiling water down the hole.
  他跑进了厨房，拎了一桶开水出来，然后把滚开的水都倒进了蚂蚁洞。
• Water down the stream, up a long hill, and I like mountains, and constantly rolls upward.
  水往下流，山往上长，而我如山，不断朝上进发。
• The teacher had to water down the course for a slowlearning class.
  老师不得不降低课程的要求来迁就慢班的学生。
• You can water down a glass of wine and make it last twice as long
  你可以往杯里的葡萄酒中掺点水，当两杯来喝。
• If you feel the water down here, it's really warm.
  如果你想过来感受一下泉水的话，它真得很暖和。