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单词 talk down
释义 talk down
transitive verb
1. : to overcome or silence by superior argument or by loud and insistent talking
 < 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. : to disparage or belittle by talking
 < endeavored to interrupt and then to talk down all hymns — Haldane Macfall >
 < in boosting his own products he never talks theirs down >
3. : to bring an airplane in for a blind landing by means of instructions radioed to the pilot by a ground observer who watches the approach of the craft by means of radar
 < the ground control radar operator talked the … pilot down the landing approach to the runway — A.M.Johnston >
intransitive verb
: to speak in a condescending or oversimplified fashion with the false assumption that the listener is altogether ignorant of the matter involved — usually used with to
 < 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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