water down

1. PHRASAL VERB 加水稀释;掺水冲淡
   If you water down a substance, for example food or drink, you add water to it to make it weaker.
   1. You can water down a glass of wine and make it last twice as long...
      你可以往杯里的葡萄酒中掺点水，当两杯来喝。
   2. I bought a water-based paint, then decided to water it down even more.
      我买了一种水性漆，然后决定加水进一步稀释。
2. See also: Proposed legislation affecting bird-keepers has been watered down. watered-down

1. It looks like water down there all right
   看起来水的确流到那儿了。
2. You can water down a glass of wine and make it last twice as long
   你可以往杯里的葡萄酒中掺点水，当两杯来喝。
3. I bought a water-based paint, then decided to water it down even more.
   我买了一种水性漆，然后决定加水进一步稀释。
4. Proposed legislation affecting bird-keepers has been watered down.
   影响养鸟者的立法提案的措词已经缓和一些了。
5. He agreed to water down his criticisms of the government.
   他同意把他对政府的批评变得婉转一些。
6. In the negotiations, they agreed to water down their original stiff demand to one acceptable to both sides.
   在谈判中，他们同意把原来的强硬要求降低到双方都可以接受的地步。
7. Save your wee in milk cartons, water down and use as a high nitrate fertilizer.
   在牛奶盒里小便，加水稀释，然后可以用作高硝酸盐含量的肥料。
8. Typically, an electric current breaks the water down.
   通常人们是用电流来分解水的。
9. You'd better water down your demand.
   你最好降低一下要求。
10. The teacher had to water down the course for a slowlearning class.
    老师不得不降低课程的要求来迁就慢班的学生。
11. The scientists said the best explanation they could offer for the streaks was that they were caused by a flow of extremely salty water down the slopes.
    科学家他们说，能提供的对条纹的最合理的解释是，它们是由流下陡坡高盐度的水流造成的。
12. Our bodies break water down into its parts: hydrogen and oxygen.
    我们的身体把水分解成它的成份：氢和氧。
13. Once I could not even get water down I knew there was something wrong.
    有一次，我什至不能得到水下来，我知道有什么错。
14. In both China and America I have seen repeated attempts by people to simplify and water down the Gospel in order to make it fit neatly into their lives.
    无论在中国还是美国，我都反复地见到人们为了让福音更加适合自己的生活，而把它给简化和掺水。
15. What do you get when you pour hot water down a rabbit hole?
    如果把热水从兔子的一只耳朵眼儿里灌进去，你会得到什么？
16. With these words she suddenly splashed a pint of icy water down my neck, and pulled me into the kitchen.
    她说着这些话，就猛然把一桶冰冷的水顺着我的脖子上一倒，又把我拉进厨房里。
17. Water down the stream, up a long hill, and I like mountains, and constantly rolls upward.
    水往下流，山往上长，而我如山，不断朝上进发。
18. An avalanche is a sudden and rapid flow of snow often mixed with air and water down a mountainside.
    一场雪崩是从山腰上塌落的一次突然和迅速的常常混合了空气和水的雪流。
19. There was no more whiskey left, not even a drop to water down.
    一点威士忌也没剩，连一滴供掺水的也没有。
20. Nevertheless, you have to be careful you don't water down excellent ideas so much that they lose their original strength – because you're making hundreds of thousands of compromises.
    不过，你必须小心别过分稀释了伟大的创意以致失去了它原本的力量-只因你作出了成百上千的妥协。
21. They had piped the water down.
    他们已用管道把水引到下面。
22. The rancid stench of dirty drains John poured the ditty water down the pipe.
    脏水沟发出的腐臭味.约翰把脏水倒进了排水道。
23. Well the best way is to use a Neti pot specifically designed to pour water down your nose.
    嗯，最好的方式是使用瑜伽鼻壶，它是特别设计用来将水注入鼻腔里的。
24. New curbs for US banks that restrict their ability to trade with their own capital will hit liquidity and demand for eurozone government bond markets at a time when both are in short supply, bankers have warned as they prepare to lobby regulators to water down the rules.
    正准备游说监管机构放松相关规则的银行家们警告，限制美国各银行以自有资金进行交易的新规定，将冲击欧元区国债市场的流动性和需求，而目前这两者都已供应不足。
25. If you feel the water down here, it's really warm.
    如果你想过来感受一下泉水的话，它真得很暖和。
26. The government has suggested it might water down plans to have such polls.
    英国政府已经暗示，可能会淡化强制执行此类投票的计划。
27. He rushed into the kitchen and got a bucket and poured all the boiling water down the hole.
    他跑进了厨房，拎了一桶开水出来，然后把滚开的水都倒进了蚂蚁洞。
28. We have to water down the curriculum for the slow learning class.
    我们得把慢班的课程要求降低一些。
29. We piped the water down.
    我们用管道把水输送到下面来。
30. The thirsty boy drink a glass of water down.
    这个干渴的孩子一下子喝光了一杯水。

verb

1. thin by adding water to
   1. They watered down the moonshine

2. make less strong or intense
   1. water down the mixture