soft-pedal
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- v.用弱音踏板降低...的音调
详细释义
Verb:
-
play down or obscure;
"His advisers soft-pedaled the president's blunder"
双语例句
- The government has been soft-pedalling (on) the question of teachers' pay.
政府一直低调处理教师的工资问题。
相关词汇
- play down 降低
- downplay 低估
- make light of 轻视
- underplay 轻描淡写
- minimize 将 ... 减到最少...
- make little of 不重视
- silence 沉默
- soften (使)变柔和
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