downplay
音標(biāo)發(fā)音
- 英式音標(biāo) [?da?n?ple?]
- 美式音標(biāo) [?da?n?ple?]
- 國際音標(biāo) ['daunplei]
- 英式發(fā)音
- 美式發(fā)音
基本解釋
- v.低估；對…輕描淡寫；不予重視
詞根記憶
- down(向下) + play(玩)→玩下去→不予重視
- down(向下) + play(玩)→玩下去不理正事→不予重視
英漢例句
- Finns are very modest and downplay their own accomplishments.
芬蘭人是非常謙虛,淡化自己的成績. - The humiliation of defeat in 1982 caused Argentina to downplay the dispute.
1982年馬島戰(zhàn)爭失敗后,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(hù)主義的說法. - The government is trying to downplay the violence.
政府試圖對暴力行為低調(diào)處理。 - 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于弧度沒有太圓,這使她的臉看中去更圓潤.
詞組短語
- Downplay oneself 作踐自己
- downplay y 低估
- downplay y the epidemic 對疫情不予重視
- downplay the epidemic 對疫情不予重視;掩飾疫情;對疫情不予珍視;對疫情不予器重
- and to downplay 并且故意輕描淡寫
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.