talk down

英 [tɔːk daʊn]

美 [tɔːk daʊn]

（紧急情况下）引导（飞行员）安全降落; 贬低; 贬损

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB (紧急情况下)引导(飞行员)安全降落
  Totalk downsomeone who is flying an aircraft in an emergency means to give them instructions so that they can land safely.
  1. The pilot began to talk him down by giving instructions over the radio.
     引航员开始通过无线电发出指令引导他安全着陆。
• PHRASAL VERB 贬低;贬损
  If someonetalks downa particular thing, they make it less interesting, valuable, or likely than it originally seemed.
  1. They even blame the government for talking down the nation's fourth biggest industry...
     他们甚至指责政府贬低该国的第四大产业。
  2. Businessmen are tired of politicians talking the economy down.
     商人厌烦政客们贬低经济的重要性。
• PHRASAL VERB 说服(或劝服)…降低要价
  Totalksomeonedownin negotiations means to persuade them to accept less money than they originally asked for.
  1. We talked them down and struck a deal...
     我们说服他们降了价，成交了。
  2. When he makes you an offer, you send me in and I'll talk him down another thousand...
     他向你报完价后，你让我进去，我再给他砍掉1, 000。
  3. This leaves the Prime Minister, like his predecessors, earnestly trying to talk down wages.
     这就使得首相和他的前任们一样，急于削减工资。

英英释义

verb

• direct and control (the flight of an airplane during landing) via radio
  1. the control tower talked down the plane whose pilot fell ill
• belittle through talk
• speak in a condescending manner, as if to a child
  1. He talks down to her

双语例句

• The best way to regulate such liquidity flows, she says, is not to talk down the market or try to cool demand by introducing a capital gains tax, but to raise interest rates so that the return on bank deposits becomes more attractive.
  她认为，对这些资金流进行监管的最佳办法，不是唱衰市场，也不是通过资本利得税来遏制需求，而应该提高利率，这样，银行存款的回报率才会变得更加诱人。
• They talk down to us, as I'm sure the Teir'Dal do in Freeport about their half-elves.
  而且我肯定自由港的泰尔达们对那些半精灵也一样！
• One after another their ideas were talk down.
  一个接着一个的意见被说服（否决）。
• This leaves the Prime Minister, like his predecessors, earnestly trying to talk down wages.
  这就使得首相和他的前任们一样，急于削减工资。
• The sequence where Hughes meets her family and they talk down to him is nervy.
  其中一幕讲述晓治与她的家人见面，他们自以为是地跟晓活说话，厚颜无耻。
• However, it is not clear whether the measures are an effort to talk down potential price rises or a more serious effort to force producers and retailers to forestall increases in line with government demands.
  不过，这些举措是试图唱衰潜在的价格上涨，还是一种更为认真的努力，以迫使生产商和零售商根据政府要求避免提价，目前尚不清楚。
• Businessmen are tired of politicians talking the economy down.
  商人厌烦政客们贬低经济的重要性。
• Don't talk down to me, chloe.
  别对我用这种口气说话，克洛伊。
• Are you trying to talk me down?
  你想说服我放弃？
• You shouldn't talk down your own achievements.
  你不应该小瞧了自己的成就。