damp down

英 [dæmp daʊn]

美 [dæmp daʊn]

抑制，平息（强烈的感情、争吵或危机）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 抑制，平息（强烈的感情、争吵或危机)
  Todamp downsomething such as a strong emotion, an argument, or a crisis means to make it calmer or less intense.
  1. His hand moved to his mouth as he tried to damp down the panic...
     他用手捂住嘴巴，力图平息内心的恐慌。
  2. The entire spending boost could go on wage demands unless expectations are damped down.
     除非降低预期，否则整个支出增长计划可能会导致加薪要求。

双语例句

• We may damp down the fire furnace for the night.
  我们可以把火炉子封上过夜。
• Difficulties an failures did not damp down his enthusiasm.
  困难和失败都不能破坏他的热情。
• The entire spending boost could go on wage demands unless expectations are damped down.
  除非降低预期，否则整个支出增长计划可能会导致加薪要求。
• Members of the group of eight leading industrialised nations last night sought to damp down expectations that they could rescue the global economy from the impact of high oil prices.
  八国集团（g8）昨晚试图打消人们的期望，即希望它们会挽救全球经济免受高油价影响。
• S.buyers and that could further damp demand and push down prices.
  这可能会导致需求受到进一步打压、进而压低价格。
• The time-varying mass matrix, damp matrix and stiffness matrix of track spatial vibration were set up by using the principle of stationary total potential energy in elastic system dynamics, and the technology of track "added and cut down".
  运用弹性系统总势能不变值原理，采用轨道不断“增加和缩减”技术，建立直线轨道结构空间振动时变质量、阻尼和刚度矩阵。
• Don't forget to damp down the fire before going to bed.
  上床睡觉之前，别忘了封火。
• It's my son's duty to damp down the furnace every evening.
  每天晚上封炉子是我儿子的任务。
• That scab union was a tool used by the capitalists in their vain attempt to damp down the labour movement.
  那个黄色工会是资本家妄图用来扑灭工人运动的工具。
• At the time, the concession was enough to damp down congressional ire.
  当时，北京方面的让步足以压下美国国会的怒火。