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play down

/pleɪ daʊn/

翻译: 动词短语,指故意淡化某事的重要性或严重性,使其显得不如实际那么重要或严重。

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词语关系

verb

/pleɪ daʊn/B2formal
  • zh动词短语,指故意淡化某事的重要性或严重性,使其显得不如实际那么重要或严重。

A phrasal verb used to indicate the act of making something seem less important or serious than it actually is.

不可数 · 及物 · 短语动词,可分

  1. Minimize importanceinformal

    To make something seem less important or serious than it really is.

    zh轻描淡写

    • The politician tried to play down the scandal.
    • She played down her role in the project's success.
    • He played down the severity of his injury to avoid worrying his family.

    同义词belittlede-emphasizediminishdownplayminimizesoft-pedaltrivializeunderstate

    反义词accentuateemphasizehighlightstress

词形
  • played down past participle
  • played down past simple
  • playing down present participle
  • plays down third person singular

基本动词play

Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset · 0.3.1

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Vocabulary data from the Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset (CC BY 4.0), https://huggingface.co/datasets/Fristail27/vocab-bloom-hub-en

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