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

• If you don't use the fire now, you can damp it down.
  如果你现在不用火，你可以把火封上。
• We'll damp down the fire for the night.
  我们在晚上要炉火封起来。
• Emerging markets need to tighten their monetary policy further to damp down inflation.
  新兴市场需要进一步收紧货币政策，以降低通胀。
• 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。
• It has sought to damp down military tensions and cut off all information to the media on the Himalayan border situation, including Chinese intrusions.
  它试图缓解两国在喜马拉雅山边界的军事紧张局势，并对媒体封锁这一地区的所有信息，其中包括中国的侵入。
• 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。
• 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。
• You'd better damp down the ground and then sweep it.
  你最好先在地上洒一层水，然后再打扫。
• 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。