deflating

英 [dɪˈfleɪtɪŋ]

美 [dɪˈfleɪtɪŋ]

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)
deflate的现在分词

现在分词：deflating　

COCA.39008

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

• How deflating was it knowing that Karl was not going to suit up before the game and what effect did his injuries have on what happened to the lakers?
  赛前知道马龙将无法比赛你们有多失望？他的伤病给湖人带来什么影响？
• The newest images-the first in three months-appeared aimed at deflating the latest round of rumors about Castro's health as his absence from power reached the half-year mark.
  这是卡斯特罗3个月来首次出现在电视上。古巴电视台公布这段录像是为了攻破近日有关卡斯特罗在移交政权半年后健康状况恶化的传闻。
• Beijing retains the levers of control, not least over the level of appreciation, and its deflating real estate and equities markets do not entice in any case.
  北京仍然紧握着操纵杆，特别是在升值幅度方面。而日形消瘦的中国房地产和股票市场，怎么看都不算不上诱人。
• So is a high-fashion partnership simply a way to bolster the deflating British music industry?
  所以与高端时装联手只是为了拯救不断走下坡路的英国音乐业？
• The index has been deflating for eight months now.
  迄今新房价格指数已连续下滑了8个月。
• It sounds odd, especially when corporate culture is often consumed with deflating negative news.
  这话听起来有些奇怪，尤其是当企业文化中经常充斥着令人沮丧的负面因素时。
• One approach is to look at the entire economy and try to figure out what damage was done by the attacks no easy task given the fact that the dotcom bubble had been deflating and the economy was entering recession at about the time the terrorists struck.
  一条途径是观察整个经济，试着弄清楚袭击造成的损失鉴于在恐怖袭击发生前后，互联网泡沫已经开始破灭，美国经济正步入衰退，这并非易事。
• By means of application and calculation on living examples, the method of gradually deflating common region has been successfully applied to the diagnosis of constraint condition, and a satisfactory result has been achieved.
  通过实例的应用和计算，成功地把逐步缩小公共域的方法应用于对约束条件的诊断，得到了满意的结果。
• In China, the locus of world attention in recent years, a stock-market collapse and deflating property prices are causing consumers to think twice about purchases.
  而在作为最近几年全球关注焦点的中国，股市暴跌和房地产价格下降也使消费者在购物之前三思而行。
• But deflating an economy suffering from the collapse of an asset price bubble often fails to work, though Ireland, as a small open economy, has a better chance of exporting its way out than other vulnerable eurozone members.
  但对一个遭受资产价格泡沫破裂的经济体实施紧缩政策往往没有效果，尽管作为一个开放的小型经济体，爱尔兰比其它脆弱的欧元区成员国更有可能依靠出口摆脱困境。