deflates

英 [dɪˈfleɪts]

美 [dɪˈfleɪts]

v.  放掉(轮胎、气球等的)气; (使)瘪下来; 使泄气; 挫败…的锐气; 紧缩(通货)
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柯林斯词典

• VERB 使泄气;挫…的锐气;贬低…的重要性
  If youdeflatesomeone or something, you take away their confidence or make them seem less important.
  1. Like any actor he can be self-centred but I think I've worked out how to deflate him...
     跟其他演员一样，他有时也会以自我为中心，但我想自己已经找到了如何挫他锐气的办法。
  2. Britain's other hopes of medals were deflated earlier in the day.
     英国另外的夺牌希望在那天早些时候受到了打击。
• V-ERG 放(轮胎、气球等)的气;（使）瘪掉
  When something such as a tyre or balloondeflates, or when youdeflateit, all the air comes out of it.
  1. When it returns to shore, the life-jacket will deflate and revert to a harness...
     返回岸上后，救生衣就会瘪掉，恢复成背带状。
  2. ...a deflated dinghy.
     瘪了气的救生筏
  3. We deflate the tyres to make it easier to cross the desert.
     我们把轮胎放了气，以便穿越沙漠时更容易一些。

双语例句

• When a bubble deflates, the price must fall to where incomes and returns can support each other.
  当一个泡泡破裂的时候，价格必然会回落到收入与回报可以相互制衡的范围。
• But as the housing bubble deflates, it also drags innocent victims into a wave of fore-closures.
  但是，随着房地产泡沫的破灭，无辜的受害者也被卷入丧失抵押赎回权大潮。
• If the implementation is just a bit insecure, a hole is opened on the boundary: the balloon deflates or, worst case, explodes.
  如果实现不是很安全，那么这个边界上就会出现漏洞：导致气球消气了，或者最糟糕的情况是气球炸了。
• And if one deflates these data for growth of population, so, income or product per head, they reduce to1 or2 percent a year.
  如果把人口增长的因素考虑进去，人人均收入或人均产值来看，年增长率就降到1%或2%。
• The Total-Gazprom deal also deflates the idea that international oil companies ( IOCs) tend to become redundant in a world of rising national oil companies ( NOCs).
  此次道达尔和俄罗斯天然气工业股份公司达成的交易还弱化了这样一种想法：在一个国家石油公司（NOCs）日益崛起的世界里，国际石油公司（IOCs）往往会变得多余。
• Then there is the chance that, as the housing bubble in China deflates, investors desperate for yield will force up stocks instead.
  然后就是这样一种可能性，即随着中国房地产泡沫漏气，渴望获得收益的投资者将推高中国股市。
• The N2 of methanol synthesis relaxing deflates can used to produce ammonia and urea;
  甲醇合成弛放气中的N2联产合成氨尿素；
• Men don't drive themselves crazy keeping calorie journals& they just stop drinking beer until their belly deflates.
  男人们不会做那些会让自己发疯的卡路里日记&他们仅仅是在肚子变小前暂时戒掉了啤酒。