[VERB 动词]使泄气；挫…的锐气；贬低…的重要性 If you deflate someone or something, you take away their confidence or make them seem less important.
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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。
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。
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When she refused I felt deflated.
当她拒绝时我感到灰心丧气。
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[V-ERG 及物/不及物动词]放(轮胎、气球等)的气；（使）瘪掉 When something such as a tyre or balloon deflates, or when you deflate it, all the air comes out of it.
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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。
...a deflated dinghy.
瘪了气的救生筏
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。
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de·flateverb1/dɪˈfleɪt; NAmEdɪˈfleɪt//ˌdiːˈfleɪt; NAmEˌdiːˈfleɪt/[transitive , intransitive ]deflate(sth) to let air or gas out of a tyre, balloon,etc; to become smaller because of air or gas coming out 放掉（轮胎、气球等的）气；（使）瘪下来2/dɪˈfleɪt; NAmEdɪˈfleɪt/[transitive , often passive ]deflatesb/sth to make sb feel less confident; to make sb/sth feel or seem less important 使泄气；挫败…的锐气◆All the criticism had left her feeling totally deflated.所有这些批评使她彻底失去了信心。3/ˌdiːˈfleɪt; NAmEˌdiːˈfleɪt/[transitive ]deflatesth ( economics 经) to reduce the amount of money being used in a country so that prices fall or stay steady 紧缩（通货）☞compare
1[intransitive, transitive] if a tyre,balloon etc deflates, or if you deflate it, it gets smaller because the gas inside it comes outOPP inflate → go down, let downRegisterIn everyday British English, people usually say an object goes down rather than deflates:· It looks like the air bed has gone down.2[transitive] to make someone feel less important or less confident: She was deflated when Fen made no comment on her achievement.3[transitive] to show that a statement, argument etc is wrong: Simkin hoped to find a way to deflate his opponent’s argument.4[intransitive, transitive] technical to change economic rules or conditions in a country so that prices fall or stop rising
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