soft-pedal
中文翻譯:
vt. 降低...的調子, 對...不予張揚, 使...變得不顯眼詞型變化:
動詞過去式:soft-pedaled,soft-pedalled 過去分詞:soft-pedaled,soft-pedalled 現在分詞:softpedaling,soft-pedalling 第三人稱單數:soft-pedals,soft-pedals英文字典
中英例句:
- The government has been soft-pedalling (on) the question of teachers' pay.政府一直低調處理教師的工資問題。
英文解釋:
名詞 soft-pedal:
- a pedal on a piano that moves the action closer to the strings and so soften the sound同義詞:soft pedal
動詞 soft-pedal:
- play down or obscure