deflate

单词deflate

基本解释

v.: 放掉（轮胎、气球等的）气；（使）瘪下来；使泄气；挫败…的锐气
网络: 放气；紧缩；缩小

权威解释

• 放掉（轮胎、气球等的）气；（使）瘪下来:

  to let air or gas out of a tyre, balloon , etc.; to become smaller because of air or gas coming out

• 使泄气；挫败…的锐气:

  to make sb feel less confident; to make sb/sth feel or seem less important

• 紧缩（通货）:

  to reduce the amount of money being used in a country so that prices fall or stay steady

英汉解释

• 抽气

• 下降

• 放气;泄气

• 降低...的重要性,使泄气

• 抽去(空气等)

• 缩小

• 收缩,紧缩(通货)

词性分析

• 第三人称单数：deflates

• 现在分词：deflating

• 过去分词：deflated

同义词

v.go downlet downcollapseshrinkpuncture

反义词

v.inflateboost

例句

• This bubble is not on the point of collapse, but is likely to deflate as funds adjust to the lower returns that are likely going forward.

  这一泡沫还没有到破裂的时候，但随着基金做出调整，以适应未来可能出现的较低回报率，这一泡沫可能变小。

• The only other compression format you"re likely to see is deflate, but it"s less effective and less popular.

  只其他压缩格式您可能看到是deflate，但也是较有效和使用率较低。

• If King Abdullah really wants to deflate the oil markets, he could try announcing an increase in output of a few million barrels a day.

  如果阿卜杜拉国王真的想紧缩石油市场，他应该试试宣告每天增产个几百万桶。

• I"d deflate a bit and hunker down in anticipation of the next binge.

  而我则会收缩一点儿，静静地等着下一顿大餐。

• By winning the popular vote, there is no doubt Mrs Clinton punctured Mr Obama"s balloon in Ohio and Texas, but she did not deflate it.

  希拉里在俄亥俄州和得克萨斯州赢得了党内普选，刺穿了奥巴马的气球，但这个气球并未因此而“瘪”下去。

• One revelation is the extent to which Mr Greenspan says he did worry about and try to deflate both bubbles with early rate rises.

  格林斯潘在书中透露，当初，他对上述两种泡沫确实非常担心，并且试图用加息的方式予以抑制。

• Think about what conditions or situations about your life you find troubling and that seem to deflate your self-esteem.

  考虑你的生活中哪些环境或处境让你感到有麻烦、似乎在打击你的自尊心。

• Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan warned of "irrational exuberance, " but that did not deflate the dot-com stock market bubble.

  联邦储备委员会（FederalReserveBoard）主席艾伦.葛林斯潘提出的“非理性乐观”的忠告未能戳破dot-com造成的股市泡沫。

• The second, much greater fear is that China has created a bubble and is now trying to get that bubble to deflate gently.

  其次，人们更大的担心在于，中国已出现了泡沫，目前正设法让那个泡沫缓缓缩小。

• And whenever one of those bubbles begins to leak, it typically needs years to deflate, causing enormous economic damage as it does.

  当某一个泡沫开始出现裂痕，要将其完全消除往往需要数年的时间，在这一过程中，经济将遭受严重损害。