downplaying

英 [ˌdaʊnˈpleɪɪŋ]

美 [ˌdaʊnˈpleɪɪŋ]

v.  对…轻描淡写; 使轻视; 贬低
downplay的现在分词

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

• In fact, despite his rhetoric downplaying any further expansion of its balance sheet, Bernanke was careful in his press conference not to close the door entirely on qe3.
  事实上，虽然伯南克在言辞中淡化美联储资产负债表的进一步扩张，但在最近的新闻发布会上，他却进行了谨慎处理，并未完全关上qe3的大门。
• The coach is downplaying the team's poor performance.
  教练对这个队的拙劣表现不以为然。
• The senator is downplaying the significance of the issue.
  这位参议员在故意淡化这一问题的重要性。
• Pitch yourself as an expert in those areas, and donhjteshufuhaot worry about downplaying or leaving out the rest.
  把自己定位为这些领域的专家，别担心对其他方面所知甚少。
• The United Auto Workers has been among the constituents downplaying any potential benefits of a deal.
  行业工会组织全美汽车工人联合会（UAW）一直是淡化这笔交易可能有什么好处的机构之一。
• The financial community is circling the wagons in an attempt to avoid a major panic when the markets reopen Monday, holding conference calls with nervous investors and downplaying the importance of credit-rating agencies in the financial markets.
  目前，这一金融中枢正严阵以待，不断通过电话会议来安抚紧张的投资者，淡化评级机构对市场的影响，希望能藉此避免市场周一开盘时出现过度恐慌情绪。
• But to suggest downplaying the significance of what little research there is in developing nations seems premature, and could carry substantial opportunity costs.
  但是忽视发展中国家小规模研究的意义似乎是一种并不明智的选择，这种做法会带来很大的机会成本。
• Because conceptual metaphor as well as the metonymy possesses the specific cognitive feature of highlighting and hiding some aspects of a concept, the euphemistic expressions organized by metaphor and metonymy play the role of downplaying the negative and unpleasant aspects of the tabooed things.
  认知语言学认为概念隐喻和转喻都具有突出一个概念的某个方面而同时掩盖其他方面的作用，所以通过隐喻和转喻形成的委婉语可以掩盖被禁忌概念中反面的，另人不愉快的方面。
• If Wall Street got into trouble by borrowing too much, downplaying risks and living only for the present, the same could be said of much of the rest of the country.
  如果华尔街是因为借贷过度，忽视危机，以及安于现状而陷于麻烦之中，那么这些也会在这个国家的其他地方重演。
• Because you've never practiced. You're so used to downplaying your accomplishments that being proud of yourself is like remembering calculus.
  因为你从没有练习。对自己的成绩过于不重视，你已经习以为常，以至于对自己感到骄傲就像在回忆积分学一样困难。