soft-pedal

• v. 用弱音踏板降低...的音调

英英释义

Verb:

1. play down or obscure;

   "His advisers soft-pedaled the president's blunder"
   

近反义词

【近义词】

• 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