单词 | talk down |
释义 | talk down 1. < burst out with attacks on the play … but they had their facts wrong and were talked down — Elmer Davis > < tries to argue back but his opponent vociferously talks him down > 2. < endeavored to interrupt and then to talk down all hymns — Haldane Macfall > < in boosting his own products he never talks theirs down > 3. < the ground control radar operator talked the … pilot down the landing approach to the runway — A.M.Johnston > intransitive verb < tired of being talked down to and are rightly insulted by being treated most of the time as … morons — John Mason Brown > < in teaching him he never talked down to him, indulged or flattered him; he treated him as a man and an equal — Elizabeth Goudge > |
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