They downplay , or justify, the proliferation of white supremacist-tinged paramilitary groups, police violence, and racial profiling

他们对带有白人至上主义色彩的准军事组织的数量猛增以及警察暴力和种族倾向轻描淡写，并为它们辩护。

In contrast, the education systems of today have a tendency to downplay the foundational subjects.

相比之下，当代的教育中则恰恰有严重的轻视基础学科的倾向。

To downplay or gloss over(differences,for example,especially in order to maintain a nominal,apparent,or temporary unity.

虚饰掩饰或暂平息(如不同点)，尤其为了维持名义上的、表面的或暂时的团结

||1:“Bloodlands” has aroused fierce criticism from those who believe that the Soviet Union, for all its flaws, cannot be compared to the Third Reich, which pioneered ethnic genocide.||2:Doing this, the critics argue, legitimises ultranationalists in eastern Europe who downplay the Holocaust, exaggerate their own suffering—and dodge guilt for their own collaboration with Hitler’s executioners.

||1:“血染之地”已经激起了一些人的激烈批评，这些人认为苏联即使有千般缺点，也比不上第三帝国的罪恶，后者是种族屠杀的先锋。||2:批评者认为，这种做法将使东欧的极端民族主义者合法化，这些极端分子漠视大屠杀，夸大自身遭受的苦难---而不愿直面他们与希特勒的刽子手们勾结的罪行。

But the arrival of a nasty virus fromAfricahas revealed something else. Ambitious politicians are no longer merely attacking the other party, or the president. The starting point for Ebola alarmists is an assumption that behind policy disagreements, conspiracies lurk, with technocrats in on the plot.|| Dr Paul appears to believe that officials are knowingly lying when they downplay the risk of a pandemic.|| Mr Cruz breezily suggests that the FAA helped to bullyIsrael.Louisiana’s governor complains that the government, in arguing that flight bans do more harm than good, wants Americans to heed what he sniffily calls “the experts”.

1:但这种源自非洲让人厌烦的病毒的到来也反映出一些其他的东西。||2:有野心的政客不再只是攻击另一党派或是总统。||3:埃博拉恐慌者的出发点是对背后政治差异、技术官僚密谋阴谋的假设。||4:保罗似乎认为，官员在淡化疫情风险时故意撒谎。||5:科鲁兹则轻描淡写的建议美国联邦航空局（FAA）去恐吓以色列。||6:路易斯安那州州长抱怨认为飞行禁令弊大于利的政府，想让美国民众去听从那些被他呲之以鼻称为“砖家”的人的说法。

||1:Selective memory is often a harmful feature of children’s education.||2:Japanese high-school textbooks devote impressively little space to the war, reflecting official attempts to “downplay the dark aspects of Japan’s modern history,” writes Mr Dower.||3:For its part, China’s government relies on its struggle against Japanese aggression for its historical legitimacy, so memories of wartime atrocities are kept fresh in schools.||4:This helps to explain the strikingly different public reactions to the current island disputes.||5:While the Chinese angrily take to the streets, the Japanese stay at home and watch it on TV.

||1:选择性记忆往往不利于对下一代的教育。||2:道尔写道，日本的中学教科书对战争描述极少，反映了官方试图“淡化日本近代史的阴暗面”。||3:在中国这一方面，政府依靠抗日战争来突出其历史合理性，因此学校教育不断提及日本在战时的暴行。||4:这可以解释为什么对于当下的岛屿纠纷两国的公众反应截然不同。||5:中国人愤怒地走上街头抗议，而日本人却待在家里看电视，电视里正是中国人抗议的镜头。

||1:Throughout the election campaign, the RSS supplied volunteers for the BJP.||2:The organisation’s sway within the party remains strong.||3:Mr Modi became party leader in 2013 when the RSS chose to back him.||4:Observers see an effort to expand the RSS’s “majoritarian” appeal, with less talk of Hindu identity and more about national strength.||5:Smooth-tongued spokesmen downplay a once-core assertion of the RSS: that to be Indian was to be Hindu.

||1:在整个的竞选活动中，RSS一直为印度人民党提供志愿者。||2:该组织在人民党内保持着巨大的影响力。||3:2013年，在RSS的支持下，莫迪先生成为了印度人民党的领袖。||4:观察家们将其视作印度国民志愿服务团扩大其“多数人统治”诉求的努力，只是现在他们更少地谈及印度教的身份，转而更多地从国家力量的出发。||5:圆滑的发言人如今则对服务团曾经核心的主张—“印度人就得是印度教徒”轻描淡写。

To downplay the significance of the vote, Mr Cameron abstained. Yet this might also reflect growing ambivalence towards Israel, some claimed. After siding with Israel early in the Gaza war, Mr Cameron denounced Israel’s post-war landgrab as “utterly deplorable”.

为了淡化投票的重要性，卡梅伦投了弃权票。当然，这也可能是反映了卡梅伦对以色列日益增长的矛盾心理------在加沙战争早期，英国与以色列同仇敌忾，而在此之后卡梅伦指责以色列战后侵占土地，并称其是“完全可悲”。

Mr Barak does not downplay Israel’s long-term concern or the risk in what he is proposing.

巴拉克先生重视以色列长期关注的问题或他的提议所造成的风险。

And, in the 2000s, when Bush appointees tried to downplay the severity of global warming, Hansen was the one blowing the whistle.

并且，在新世纪的前十年，当小布什任命的官员们试图贬低全球暖化的严重性时，Hansen就是那个站出来揭发的人。

But perhaps the most blatant attempts to downplay the disaster have come from the mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov.

不过，也许对这场灾难最明目张胆的掩饰应该是来自莫斯科市长尤里·卢日科夫。

And it’s a scientific discovery that most health professionals are, naturally, keen to downplay .

但是它的确是一个科学发现，大部分保健专业人士，自然地会忽视这些。

But executives from some western countries are sanguine and downplay Tokyo’s concerns.

但一些西方国家的高管却颇为乐观，对日本的担忧不以为然。

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They’ve done their best in the past to downplay theories that the ancient Mayas predicted some sort of apocalypse would occur in 2012.

过去，墨西哥考古机构尽了最大努力，对古玛雅人预言2012年是世界末日的说法，采取轻描淡写的态度。

Even New Labour tended to trumpet its market-friendly approaches and to downplay important aspects of its profound statism.

即使是新工党也想大肆鼓吹它对于市场的友好接触，降低其深刻的中央集权下的经济制度的重要性。

Yet most Western governments seem keen to downplay Mr Meles’s human-rights record, hoping his re-election will keep his country stable.

尽管西方政府似乎似倾向于忽视梅泽斯的人权政绩，但是希望他的连任能确保国家稳定。

Taipei, whose relations with Beijing have also been on the mend, moved to downplay the incident.

近年来与北京方面关系同样出现回暖的台北方面，采取行动淡化这一事件的影响。

SPIEGEL: It’s noticeable that you downplay the significance of the religious and economic factor in your interpretation.

镜报：我们注意到在您的阐释中弱化了宗教和经济因素的重要性。

They would downplay their sense of vulnerability by, for example, comparing their own weight and diet favourably with that of their friends.

举个例子，他们通过和朋友比较体重和饮食习惯来忽视自己弱点。

Do you tend to downplay formidable challenges?

你往往不把令人畏惧的挑战放在眼里吗？。

You don’t need to brag, but you also don’t need to downplay your accomplishments or apologize for them.

你无需自夸，但你也无需低估自己的成绩或为成绩感到抱歉。

Critics could argue that these arguments downplay the risks of a “sudden stop” in financial markets.

批评人士可能辩称，这些论点淡化了金融市场“突然停滞”的风险。

Aboard his plane, however, the secretary tries to downplay the importance of the budget votes.

然而，部长登上他的飞机，试图淡化预算案投票的重要性。

Does he or she downplay my feelings or interests?

他（她）是否经常看不起我的兴趣和想法？

He and other Chinese scholars downplay Li Yundi’s and Lang Lang’s stardom.

他和其他中国学者并不看重李云迪和郞朗的明星光环。

They clearly recognize something that most observers in the world downplay .

他们清楚地认识到他们注重的一些事情，世界上的大部分观察家都不会太加注意。

Meanwhile, while O’Donnell and Birge downplay the structural changes, they also view the initiative strategically.

同时，当O’Donnell和Birge对这一结构性变化轻描淡写时，他们同样将这一应用视作战略性的举措。

In order to explain complex science to a lay audience, scientists and journalists are prone to progressively downplay the complexity.

为了向不懂行的听众解释复杂的科学问题，科学家和新闻记者越来越倾向于减少复杂程度。

Dutch parents, by contrast, downplay the dangerous and difficult sides of teenage sexuality, tending to normalize it.

相比之下，荷兰家长倾向于将青少年性正常化，把它的危险和难处淡化。