橘子朗文词典

downplay

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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；对…轻描淡写；不予重视

词根记忆

  • down(向下) + play(玩)→玩下去→不予重视
  • down(向下) + play(玩)→玩下去不理正事→不予重视

同根派生

     

英汉例句

  • Finns are very modest and downplay their own accomplishments.
    芬兰人是非常谦虚,淡化自己的成绩.
  • The humiliation of defeat in 1982 caused Argentina to downplay the dispute.
    1982年马岛战争失败后,阿根廷暂时搁置了争议.
  • One more argument downplay protectionism can be discounted.
    我们不能轻信任何有意低估保护主义的说法.
  • The government is trying to downplay the violence.
    政府试图对暴力行为低调处理。
  • 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没有太圆,这使她的脸看中去更圆润.

词组短语

    短语

  • Downplay oneself 作践自己
  • downplay y 低估
  • downplay y the epidemic 对疫情不予重视
  • downplay the epidemic 对疫情不予重视;掩饰疫情;对疫情不予珍视;对疫情不予器重
  • and to downplay 并且故意轻描淡写

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • to make something seem less important or less bad than it really is

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If you downplay a fact or feature, you try to make people think that it is less important or serious than it really is.