v. 把…减至最低数量[程度]( minimize的过去式和过去分词 ); 对(某事物)作最低估计, 极力贬低(某事物)的价值[重要性]
🗣️ 情景例句
Give me a cup of coffee, please.
请给我一杯咖啡。
Love not at the first look.
切莫一见钟情。
The reader's hair stands on end when he reads in the final pages of the novel that the heroine a dear old lady who had always been so kind to everybody, had, in her youth, poisoned every one of her five husbands.