| 词汇 | underplay |
| 释义 | underplay verb[ T ] uk /ˌʌn.dəˈpleɪ/ us /ˌʌn.dɚˈpleɪ/ to make something such as a dangerous situation seem less important or dangerous than it really is: 低调处理;对…轻描淡写;贬低…的重要性 While not wanting to underplay the seriousness of the situation, I have to say that it is not as bad as people seem to think.尽管我并不想低估形势的严重性，但还是不得不说事情并不像人们想象的那么糟糕。 Exaggerating & playing down bloviate blow something out of proportionidiom cartoonish cartoonishly catastrophize fulsome go overboardidiom grandiloquent inflated make a mountain out of a molehillidiom make little of somethingidiom make much of somethingidiom make something of something/someone meal mildly minimization OTT protest too muchidiom romanticize underrate Examples of underplayunderplay Several contributors try to underplay the role of epistasis, largely because it has little effect on genetic variance! This is that the potential savings made are likely to be hugely exaggerated and that the costs will be underplayed. Yet these theories underplay the fact that the public arena is inherently conflictual and based on strategic decisions. He also underplays the nonviolent movement's use of coercion, such as boycotts, to try to force change. Belief in the caring generosity of physicians falsifies what we know about them by emphasizing their virtues and underplaying their other commitments and motivations. Falk's proposal, although promising, underplays the role of the infant. The book is, however, relentlessly political and wholly underplays the economic aspects. This underestimates the number who enforced it, and underplays the encouragement that others gave to the practice. In the opinion of my two touring managers, the promoters have in this exercise underplayed the amount of miscommunication that goes on. Participants noted the tendency of positivist social science to underplay the role of norms. It underplayed the expression of personal meaning in favor of learning structural patterns of the language. All too often, however, the emphasis on patient autonomy has underplayed the autonomy of others. In particular, the contribution of housing policies to the problem are underplayed. This has tended to produce a one-sided vision of the construction of the school system that seriously underplays the dynamic social processes and conflicts involved. Whilst the author correctly identifies ' ageism ' as a prevalent feature of our current welfare system for older people, he underplays the topic of gender. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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