downplayed

英 [ˌdaʊnˈpleɪd]

美 [ˌdaʊnˈpleɪd]

v.  对…轻描淡写; 使轻视; 贬低
downplay的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 对…轻描淡写;使轻视;贬低
  If youdownplaya fact or feature, you try to make people think that it is less important or serious than it really is.
  1. The government is trying to downplay the violence.
     政府试图对暴力行为低调处理。
  2. ...to downplay the dangers of nuclear accidents.
     对核事故的危险轻描淡写

双语例句

• The report downplayed the effects of large class sizes in schools.
  报告对学校大班级规模的影响一带而过。
• State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland on Thursday downplayed the incident.
  美国国务院发言人纽兰星期四对这一事件进行了淡化处理。
• He also downplayed the extent to which the American model attracts people the world over: the Chinese business elite are much more interested in Silicon Valley than in their Confucian past.
  同时，他也忽视了美国榜样对全世界的吸引力&对中国的商业精英们来说，比起他们的儒家传统，他们对美国硅谷（SiliconValley）更有兴趣。
• The risks from contagion have repeatedly been downplayed.
  危机蔓延的风险一再被低估。
• Traditional aspects of Korean culture tend to be downplayed or ignored in North Korea.
  在朝鲜，其传统文化大有被忽略之势。
• Over the last seven or eight years, I'd downplayed JKidd's game.
  在过去的七、八年里，我都有些轻视了基德在比赛中的价值。
• Crean downplayed the potential economic impact of the case.
  克林淡化了潜在的经济影响的案件。
• He "downplayed" the possibility of holding last-ditch talks with Iraq in switzerland.
  他“淡化”了在瑞士与伊拉克进行最后阶段谈判的可能性。
• Our experience of the past few years is also of great importance and should not be downplayed.
  这几年的经验也很重要，不要小看。
• Air pollution can be a sensitive subject in China, and its scope has for years been downplayed by officials and state news agencies.
  空气污染在中国可能是一个敏感话题，多年来，中国空气污染的影响范围一直被官员们和国有通讯社所淡化。