他总是贬低妻子的烹饪技术。 He's always running down his wife's cooking.
他贬低她所作的努力（认为是浪费时间）┃。 He decried her efforts (as a waste of time).
虽然助选团故意贬低她的作用┃，可是她以她的长才试行州长的想法，挑剔他的理论┃，评论他的演讲┃，并且时常指出他竞选作业的弱点并予改正。 Although the campaign plays down her role, she is the talent that test-drives the Governor's ideas, punches holes in his theories, comments on his speeches and often identifies the weak spots in his campaign operation and helps get them corrected.
她极力贬低他在这事件中的作用并抬高自己┃。 She tried to go play down his part in the affair and play up her own.
她极力贬低他在这一事件中的作用而抬高自己的作用┃。 She tried to play down his part in the affair and play up her own.
