underplayed

underplayed

美 [ˌʌndərˈpleɪ] 　英 [ˌʌndə(r)ˈpleɪ]

• v.表演得不充分；故意地不作充分表演；【牌】扣着(大牌)不出而出小牌
• n.含蓄克制的表演；暗中活动；出小牌
• 网络轻描淡写；淡化…的重要性；表演不充分

词形变化

第三人称单数：underplays  现在分词：underplaying  过去式：underplayed  

反义词

同义词

英汉解释

v.	1. 表演得不充分;故意地不作充分表演 2. 【牌】扣着(大牌)不出而出小牌;未充分发挥(手中大牌)的威力
n.	1. 含蓄克制的表演;暗中活动;出小牌

英英解释

v.	1. to make something seem less important or serious than it really is

例句

But nor should Chinese racism - and its concomitant nationalism - be underplayed.

但是中华种族主义，以及它所衍生的民族主义，还是应当引起重视；

They denied there had been any rapes or that the death toll had been underplayed .

他们否认之前有强奸案发生，也否认死亡人数被瞒报。

Was the magnitude underplayed?

是否震级被缩小了？

Bubbles bursting are nothing new. But investors underplayed the importance of western consumers to developing world economies.

泡沫破裂不是什么新鲜事，但投资者低估了西方消费者对于发展中经济体的重要性。

Unlike the birthday of the party, however, it is being oddly underplayed.

然而这个日子，却很奇怪的，没有得到如建党般的隆重庆祝。

Perhaps I had underplayed the former and overplayed the latter.

可能我对前者描述的不够充分，而对后者又太过夸张了。

Some think that the role of the tangles is being underplayed, others that something altogether different has gone wrong.

一些人认为陶蛋白缠结所扮演的角色可能被低估，事实上是另一些完全不同的东西出了差错。

The most important is the emphasis on growth itself, underplayed by many advisers and activists in the 1990s and early 2000s.

最重要的是，它强调的是增长本身。在上世纪90年代和本世纪初，许多的顾问人士与激进分子都轻视了这一点。