英语释义

• understate the importance or quality of;

  "he played down his royal ancestry"

• represent as less significant or important

片语

downplay y the epidemic对疫情不予重视

downplay the epidemic掩饰疫情

downplay the catching对疫情不予器重

Downplay oneself作践自己

Chinese Themselves Downplay It中国人自己却轻视

downplay y低估

英汉例句

• it would be irresponsible for me to downplay the magnitude of this crisis or assure you that everything is under control.

  如果我缩小这次危机的严重性或向你们保证一切都在控制之中，就是不负责任的。

• those who downplay the cognitive role of the imagination restrict it to the context of discovery, excluding it from the context of justification. but they are wrong.

  那些低估了想象认知作用的人将认知的作用排除于证实环节、局限于发现环节，但是他们错了。

• so we downplay the warnings from our factual mind and enjoy the warm sensation on our skin.

  于是我们无视来自理智的警告，继续享受我们皮肤上的温暖感觉。

• it should also be straight and not too curvyto downplay the roundness of the face.

  眉毛线条也可以是直的，不用过于弯曲使脸显得不那么圆。

• he even seemed to downplay mr putin’s role in the kgb, saying that every country needed an intelligence service.

  他甚至淡化普京在克格勃里的角色，他说每个国家都需要一个情报系统。

• but perhaps the most blatant attempts to downplay the disaster have come from the mayor of moscow, yuri luzhkov.

  不过，也许对这场灾难最明目张胆的掩饰应该是来自莫斯科市长尤里·卢日科夫。

• aboard his plane, however, the secretary tries to downplay the importance of the budget votes.

  然而，部长登上他的飞机，试图淡化预算案投票的重要性。

• and corrections officials, with some brave exceptions, have historically taken advantage of this reluctance to downplay or even deny the problem.

  而狱警们，怀着极强的侥幸心理，一直在利用他们的这种勉强心理，淡化甚至否认这些问题。

• we as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment.

  我们都忽视了爱情的危险一面，那些焦虑、失望。

• from the start, obama had -support from the media, which chose to downplay controversies involving him.

  从一开始，奥巴马就得到了媒体的支持，他们选择了忽视有关奥巴马的争论。

• they are not the first ones to bring up any of their successes and in fact downplay a lot of what they have done.

  他们不会是一开始就向人张扬他们成功的那种人，而实际上他们淡化了他们所做的一切。

• as i said, physicists do not become scientists for the money, so i don’t want to downplay the financial problems that you may face.

  正如我所说，物理学家不是因为钱而成为科学家的，所以我不想淡化的你可能会遇到的财务问题。

• rather than rush to correct the problem, intel tried to downplay it—a strategy that quickly turned into a public-relations disaster.

  英特尔公司并没有赶快更正错误，而是尽力躲避问题——这一策略很快演变为一场公关危机。

• mr barak does not downplay israel’s long-term concern or the risk in what he is proposing.

  巴拉克先生重视以色列长期关注的问题或他的提议所造成的风险。

• nevertheless, the government does not seem concerned enough to downplay the heat.

  不过，政府似乎没有因为担忧而回避高温天气。

• researchers call these tendencies 「relationship maintenance strategies, 」 where we downplay the attractiveness of others we might be tempted by.

  研究者称这些倾向为，「维持关系的技巧」，这样，我们调低可能会被诱惑的其他人的吸引力。

• negative people tend to downplay your ideas, walk over you, patronize you etc.

  消极的人可能淡化你的想法，无视你，轻视你等等。

• does he or she downplay my feelings or interests?

  他（她）是否经常看不起我的兴趣和想法？

• however, since people would probably rather downplay how much tv they actually watch, the study is more likely to have underestimated the tv-death risk than overestimated it, the researchers say.

  尽管如此，研究人员说，因为人们也许宁愿少说真正看电视的时间，这项研究更可能低估了看电视死亡风险而不会高估它。

• torrential rains and precipitously high water levels last year strained the dam and led officials to downplay its ability to control floods.

  去年的暴雨和激增的水位令大坝出现险情，官员们也因此淡化大坝控制洪灾的能力。

• i「m sure there may be a place where it makes sense to downplay your credentials. but i doubt that place is on wall street, especially when jobs are scarce.

  我相信在有些地方可能弱化自己的学历是说得通的，不过我怀疑这个地方不是在华尔街，特别是当工作机会稀缺的时候。

• in order to explain complex science to a lay audience, scientists and journalists are prone to progressively downplay the complexity.

  为了向不懂行的听众解释复杂的科学问题，科学家和新闻记者越来越倾向于减少复杂程度。

• and while he added that the 「inflation outlook remains highly uncertain,」 bernanke appeared to downplay inflation risks relative to other challenges facing the economy and global credit markets.

  同时，他补充说:“通胀前景仍高度不确定."贝南克似乎淡化通货膨胀风险相对于其它所面临的挑战--经济和全球信贷市场。

• most homeowners tend to downplay the risks they face, even if they」re living directly above an earthquake fault or on the beach of an east coast state.

  很多房主容易轻视灾害发生的可能性，即使他们就是居住在地震断层上面，或者在东海岸的海滩上。

• the safety board is looking into the possibility that witnesses at a hearing were pressured by the doe and its contractors to downplay the risks.

  安全委员会正在调查证人听证时是否被能源部施加压力，以及能源部的承包商是否不顾风险的。

• trump didn「t downplay the drama involving michaels」 health, asking the 47-year-old rock star of poison fame if he was risking his life by coming on the finale against his doctors' advice.

  创普并没有低估这场秀的严重性，他问这位47岁的摇滚明星麦克斯是不是违背了医生的嘱咐，冒着生命危险来到最终决赛现场。