play something down

play something down represent something as being less important than it in fact is 淡化, 降低（重要性）： he tried to play down the seriousness of his illness. 他试图淡化他病情的严重性。

• coming out of one's ears
• that's what I mean
• Scotchgard
• angel sharks
• procambial
• potassium manganate
• Zweig, Arnold
• direct proofs
• flag down
• big-ticket
• outvotes
• putaminous
• reappraisals
• be a matter of conscience
• microsome
• rocket engine
• seashores
• burses
• irrefragable
• sq.r.
• thin air
• lost properties
• upheaved或-hove
• dished
• sidestepper
• voiceprint
• pan bolt
• adoptee
• counteraction
• thanksgivings
• soteriology
• jacales
• Japanese Quails
• electroencephalogram
• Flexithrix
• the Irish
• ancre
• timberyard
• Shoshoni
• mismanages
• Ovis
• on a firm footing
• Danubian
• to the windward
• charger
• running knots
• electrizations
• decapod
• at a stand
• de Broglie Wavelength
• impulsive sound equation
• euthenists
• bitter cresses
• hunks
• cylindrical-film storage
• periapt
• arithmeti zation
• vaporousness
• thrombuss
• gamboge
• superinducing
• mystical
• videoconferenced
• state medicines
• suppliable
• foremasts
• split beam
• scufflers
• eeling
• black swallowtail
• cut sth short
• inconsideratenesses
• chlorobenzene
• sweet ferns
• red-hot
• biochronology
• association
• effective precipitable water
• alluvial ore
• Appalachian
• volant
• false pretences
• give someone the sharp edge of one's tongue
• sheeted vein
• bluster out
• footbridges
• (it's been) nice meeting / talking to you
• Sunday closing
• coenocyte
• knowledge source
• Manhattanize
• bundle away
• expeditionist
• ventriloquially
• if need were
• sacramentalists
• on the slightest pretence
• stainability
• fixed
• high play