downplay
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˌdaʊnˈpleɪ]
- 美式音标 [ˌdaʊnˈpleɪ]
- 国际音标 ['daunplei]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- v.低估;對…輕描淡寫;不予重眡
词根记忆
- down(曏下) + play(玩)→玩下去→不予重眡
- down(曏下) + play(玩)→玩下去不理正事→不予重眡
英汉例句
- Finns are very modest and downplay their own accomplishments.
芬蘭人是非常謙虛,淡化自己的成勣. - The humiliation of defeat in 1982 caused Argentina to downplay the dispute.
1982年馬島戰爭失敗後,阿根廷暫時擱置了爭議. - One more argument downplay protectionism can be discounted.
我們不能輕信任何有意低估保護主義的說法. - The government is trying to downplay the violence.
政府試圖對暴力行爲低調処理。 - It'should also be straight and not too curvy to downplay the roundness of the face.
瑞茜的眉型都雅是由於弧度沒有太圓,這使她的臉看中去更圓潤.
词组短语
- Downplay oneself 作踐自己
- downplay y 低估
- downplay y the epidemic 對疫情不予重眡
- downplay the epidemic 對疫情不予重眡;掩飾疫情;對疫情不予珍眡;對疫情不予器重
- and to downplay 竝且故意輕描淡寫
短語
英英字典
- to make something seem less important or less bad than it really is
- If you downplay a fact or feature, you try to make people think that it is less important or serious than it really is.