in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 minimise
- VERB 使减至最低程度;使保持最低程度
If you minimize a risk, problem, or unpleasant situation, you reduce it to the lowest possible level, or prevent it increasing beyond that level.
- Concerned people want to minimize the risk of developing cancer...
相关人员希望尽可能降低罹癌风险。 - Many of these problems can be minimised by sensible planning.
这些问题很多可以通过合理安排尽可能避免。
- VERB 对…轻描淡写;使显得不重要
If you minimize something, you make it seem smaller or less significant than it really is.
- Some have minimized the importance of ideological factors...
有些人淡化了意识形态因素的重要性。 - At his trial, he tried to minimize his behavior.
接受审判的时候,他企图对自己的行为轻描淡写。
- VERB 把(计算机屏幕上的窗口)最小化
If you minimize a window on a computer screen, you make it very small, because you do not want to use it.
- Click the square icon again to minimize the window.
再次点击正方形图标,把窗口最小化。