释义 |
soft-pedalˌsoft-ˈpedal verb (past tense and past participle soft-pedalled, present participle soft-pedalling British English, soft-pedaled, soft-pedaling American English) [transitive] VERB TABLEsoft-pedal |
Present | I, you, we, they | soft-pedal | | he, she, it | soft-pedals | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | soft-pedalled (BrE), soft-pedaled (AmE) | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have soft-pedalled (BrE), soft-pedaled (AmE) | | he, she, it | has soft-pedalled (BrE), soft-pedaled (AmE) | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had soft-pedalled (BrE), soft-pedaled (AmE) | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will soft-pedal | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have soft-pedalled (BrE), soft-pedaled (AmE) |
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Present | I | am soft-pedalling (BrE), soft-pedaling (AmE) | | he, she, it | is soft-pedalling (BrE), soft-pedaling (AmE) | | you, we, they | are soft-pedalling (BrE), soft-pedaling (AmE) | Past | I, he, she, it | was soft-pedalling (BrE), soft-pedaling (AmE) | | you, we, they | were soft-pedalling (BrE), soft-pedaling (AmE) | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been soft-pedalling (BrE), soft-pedaling (AmE) | | he, she, it | has been soft-pedalling (BrE), soft-pedaling (AmE) | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been soft-pedalling (BrE), soft-pedaling (AmE) | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be soft-pedalling (BrE), soft-pedaling (AmE) | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been soft-pedalling (BrE), soft-pedaling (AmE) |
- The studios soft-pedal the rivalry between their animation departments.
informal to make something seem less important or less urgent than it really is |