downplay

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdownplaydown‧play /ˌdaʊnˈpleɪ $ ˈdaʊnpleɪ/ verb [transitive] UNIMPORTANTto make something seem less important than it really is SYN play down White House officials attempted to downplay the president’s role in the affair.→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusdownplay• Also, in focusing on two-year institutions, I do not mean to downplay the role of four-year colleges and universities.• Grandma downplays the seriousness of her health problems.• Such stereotypic thinking forces even black stations to downplay their blackness in order to compete for the advertising dollars.

单词	downplay
释义	downplay From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdownplaydown‧play /ˌdaʊnˈpleɪ $ ˈdaʊnpleɪ/ verb [transitive] UNIMPORTANTto make something seem less important than it really is SYN play down White House officials attempted to downplay the president’s role in the affair.→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusdownplay• Also, in focusing on two-year institutions, I do not mean to downplay the role of four-year colleges and universities.• Grandma downplays the seriousness of her health problems.• Such stereotypic thinking forces even black stations to downplay their blackness in order to compete for the advertising dollars.
随便看	put your shirt on put your shoulder to the wheel put your skates on put your thoughts etc into words put your trust in put yourself down put yourself neck on the line put yourself neck on the line for put yourself/your neck on the line (for somebody) put-up job put-upon put/add the finishing touches (to something) put/bet/stake your shirt on something put/bring an end to something put/bring something into effect put/bring something into operation put/cast a spell on somebody put/dip a toe in the water put/force somebody on the defensive put/get in a plug (for something) put/get something down on paper put/hold a gun to somebody’s head put/keep somebody in the picture put/keep somebody out of action put/lay stress on something