downplays

英 [ˌdaʊnˈpleɪz]

美 [ˌdaʊnˈpleɪz]

v.  对…轻描淡写; 使轻视; 贬低
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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

• He downplays the emphasis on poverty, and there are lots of parts in the New Testament that basically teach that if you're rich you won't go to heaven.
  他避免对贫穷的强调，在新约中有很多地方，基本上就是在教授，如果你富有，你就上不了天堂。
• This approach of justification neglects or downplays the crucial question of legitimacy: what is the core principle of the state?
  而忽略了正当性的核心问题：国家的核心原则是什么？
• After all, who will bother to watch a race when the result is already online? But Michael Payne, a former Olympic official and the author of Olympic Turnaround, a book about the games 'commercial revival, downplays such concerns.
  毕竟，当比赛结果已经在网络上线后，谁还会花时间去看比赛过程呢？但奥运会商业复兴之书《奥运转机》的作者、前奥运会官员MichaelPayne对这种担忧不以为然。
• Google ( GOOG) executive chairman Eric Schmidt downplays the challenge of knowing ahead of time which Android apps will run on which devices.
  想提前知道哪些Android应用程序将在哪些设备上运行可是个难题，不过谷歌（Google）董事长埃里克•施密特对此却轻描淡写。
• Now that I stop to think about it, of course it's discouraging when someone downplays a task that seems difficult.
  既然我不再考虑，如果有人把困难的事说简单了当然使人气馁。
• Rabassa downplays his role of spreading the good words of Latin American writing.
  拉巴萨对自己在传播拉美文学作品的优美语言方面所起的作用持谦虚态度。
• At the same time, though, Wright downplays that trend as a fairly short-term disruptive shift& everybody is doing that, he says.
  不过与此同时，莱特也看低这股趋势，认为它只是一种较为短期的颠覆式转型&人人都在做它。
• The London team "downplays" the differences they did find between the foods, he says.
  他说伦敦“低调”小组确实找到了两种食物之间的差异。
• It also downplays the continuing role of science in helping fuel technological development.
  同时也贬低了科学长期以来对于技术发展的推动作用。
• In the history of Lutheran theology, justification has sometimes functioned as a central dogma that downplays or even contradicts other clear and important teachings of Scripture.
  在路德神学的历史中，称义有时是作为一个中心教条，会相对不重视其他清楚且重要的圣经教导，或甚至与圣经的教导相违背。