tone something ↔ down

phrasal verbphr v

a) REDUCEto reduce the effect of something such as a speech or piece of writing, so that people will not be offended 缓和…的语气

His advisers told him to tone down his speech.

他的顾问叫他缓和演讲的语气。

b) CCto make a colour less bright 使〔颜色〕暗淡[柔和]

Blue can be used to tone down very sunny rooms.

可以用蓝色使阳光十分充足的房间色彩变得柔和些。

Examples from the Corpus

tone down• But a remnant of caution urged that she tone it down, after all, Lucy ... She began.• I have to ask them to tone it down all the time.• To reassure her, we tone ourselves down and become more reserved with Manuel.• Instead of toning himself down, to broaden his appeal, he toned himself up, and hit his 30 percent ceiling.

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