downplay

大学 ★☆☆☆☆

vt. 不予重视

发音

US

词形变化

downplayed downplaying downplays 三单 downplays downplaying 现在分词 downplayed 过去式 downplayed 过去分词

教材释义与例句

动词

不予重视;将...轻描淡写

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential.

    淡化

    及物

    He would sometimes downplay his Princeton education by saying simply that he went to school in New Jersey.

词汇关系

词源

Synthetic form of the phrase play down. By surface analysis, down- + play.

来源:wiktionary