While excessive optimism can promote bad investment patterns, resulting in a real-estate bubble, the report's writers downplay that potential outcome in that it has not yet occurred.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文
While excessive optimism can promote bad investment patterns, resulting in a real-estate "bubble", the report's writers downplay that potential outcome in that it has not yet occurred.
2017年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
VERB
对…轻描淡写;使轻视;贬低
If you downplay a fact or feature, you try to make people think that it is less important or serious than it really is.