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

• 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。
• 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。
• If the steam needs quick deflating, the deflation valve stem can be pressed to deflate the steam thoroughly.
  如急于放气可压住放气阀杆把蒸汽放净。
• Half of the cars Toyota makes in Japan are sold there but Japanese wages are deflating fast.
  丰田在日本生产的汽车有一半销往国内，但日本的工资正迅速缩水。
• It sounds like he's deflating.
  听上去就像他在排气似的。
• Given a large low-income population and meagre pensions, the price rises are among the few factors capable of deflating President Vladimir Putin's 80 per cent-plus approval ratings.
  鉴于俄罗斯低收入人口庞大，养老金微薄，食品价格的上涨成为少数几个可能降低俄罗斯总统普京支持率的因素之一。普京目前的支持率超过80%。
• Always supervise your children when inflating or deflating the airbed!
  当对气床充气和排气时监管好你的小孩。
• 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。
• Stamp experts say buyers should expect the postal treasures to keep inflating and deflating along with the liquidity of the general Chinese economy.
  集邮专家称，买家应预料到邮票会继续随着中国整体经济流动性的变化而上涨或下跌。
• That could entail as much as a 20-30 per cent decline in overall US housing prices and a related deflating of the bubble of cheap and easy credit.
  这可能导致美国房地产整体价格下跌最高达20%至30%，并导致廉价而宽松的信贷泡沫相应紧缩。