1.贬低;低估
1.to deliberately make a situation seem less serious or important than it is
1.Hu downplays the fact that, like all Chinese newspapers, Global Times is subject to government review before publication.
像所有的中国报纸一样，《环球时报》在发行前也要接受政府部门的审查，但胡对这一事实轻描淡写地一带而过。
2.Hagelstein thinks that the report downplays optimism among reviewers, and he contests the accuracy of its poll numbers.
黑格斯坦认为，这份报告刻意淡化审查委员的乐观看法，同时他也质疑票数的正确程度。
3.Is positive because people's responsibility downplays imperfection to even result in social of the part lose a preface.
正因为人们责任的淡化甚至缺失造成了社会的部分失序。
4.This sounds like a doomsday scenario, but Epstein downplays that aspect.
这听起来好像是世界末日的景象，但是艾泼斯坦并不太在乎这种可能性。
5.Unlike the deniers, however, he believes that the consensus view actually downplays the problem.
但是，不像否认者那样，他相信主流科学观点实际上是在轻视这个问题。
6.The London team "downplays" the differences they did find between the foods, he says.
他说伦敦“低调”小组确实找到了两种食物之间的差异。
7.But, the contemporary university student downplays the phenomenon also to exist in the university varying degree.
但是，当代大学生社会责任感淡化现象也在高校不同程度地存在着。
8.It also downplays the continuing role of science in helping fuel technological development.
同时也贬低了科学长期以来对于技术发展的推动作用。
9.With John Constantine representing another savior of mankind, Reeves still downplays the religious aspects of the story.
尽管康斯坦丁现在又是一个人类救世主，里维斯仍旧将这个故事里面信仰的一面演绎得不明显。
10.The Gates Foundation, keen to avoid a public row, also downplays them.
而迫切希望避免一场公开争吵的盖茨基金会也低调回应。