PHRASAL VERB If you play down something, you try to make people believe that it is not particularly important. 贬低
Western diplomats have played down the significance of the reports.
西方的外交官们已贬低了这些报告的重要性。
He tried to play down my part in the work and play up his own.
他试图贬低我在工作中的作用而夸大他自己的作用。
Over the past few months, it has been working hard, with the help of media consultants, to play down its cosy reputation in favour of something more academic and serious.
在过去的几个月里,在媒体顾问的帮助下,它一直在努力工作,以淡化其轻松愉快的印象,打造更学术化、更严肃的形象。
Play up personal strengths and play down competitions.
强调个人优点而降低竞争的重要性。
"Obviously Kaczynski, if he wanted to increase his chances of success, had to play down all these ideas.
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You played the game; I don't know if there's a videogame now, if people play games like this where London Bridge is Falling Down.
你们也玩过这个游戏吧,我不知道现在是不是有电子游戏了,如果有人玩过伦敦桥这个游戏
As we played the game repeatedly, we noticed that play seemed to converge down towards 1.
当我们不断地重复博弈,我们会发现最后会不断接近1
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