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。
• Normal testing downplays the importance of skill by focusing on the format of test documentation rather than the robustness of tests.
  普通测试不重视测试技巧的重要性，它更多关注测试文档的格式而不是测试的健壮性。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Spears, whose Circus tour resumes Thursday night in Canada," is treating her relationship with Jason as a friendship and nothing more," downplays the spy.
  布兰妮恢复她的马戏团巡演（周四晚在加拿大），“把她与杰森的感情当作友谊，仅此而已，”一个间谍淡化道。
• 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。
• 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。
• This sounds like a doomsday scenario, but Epstein downplays that aspect.
  这听起来好像是世界末日的景象，但是艾泼斯坦并不太在乎这种可能性。