Translation for "play down" to spanish
Translation examples
Alan realized that she was now concerned with playing down the encounter with Frank.
Y él advirtió que lo único que ahora le importaba a ella era minimizar su encuentro con Frank.
For a child of Aphrodite, Piper tried hard to play down her beauty.
Para ser una hija de Afrodita, Piper se esforzaba mucho por minimizar su belleza.
In trying to play down the destruction of our diamond collection, in seeking to cover it up, I made a mistake.
—Mis pretensiones de minimizar y esconder la destrucción de nuestra colección de diamantes han sido un error.
They try to play down their failures without suppressing them altogether, allude to their wounds without revealing them, saying more than is necessary.
Trataron de minimizar sus fracasos sin ocultarlos del todo, evocando sus heridas sin exhibirlas, mencionando lo menos posible.
He was surprised, though he carefully played down any awkwardness he might have felt at finding her alone.
—Estaba sorprendido aunque intentó con toda intención minimizar el embarazo que le producía encontrarla allí sola—.
He didn’t like to play down what had happened, but he couldn’t tolerate it being an excuse for Roy’s ill treatment of his sister.
No le gustaba minimizar lo que le había sucedido, pero no podía tolerar que se utilizara como excusa para lo mal que Roy trataba a su hermana.
She started laughing—at me, at herself, at the joy that came from being together so early in the day, at both our willfully transparent attempts to play down the joy.
Se echó a reír. De mí, de ella, de la felicidad de estar juntos tan temprano, de nuestros intentos intencionadamente transparentes de minimizar la felicidad.
Nan said tat both she and Benny were busy trying to play down their bruises and scratches because it would cause such almighty upheavals in both their homes.
Nan le dijo que tanto ella como Benny estaban intentando minimizar sus contusiones y arañazos para evitar la conmoción que se produciría en sus respectivos hogares.
Perversely coy for once, the Culture played down the extent to which those born into it inherited such altered genitalia.
En cuanto a ésta, prefería mostrarse perversamente púdica —aunque sólo fuese por una vez—, y tendía a minimizar la importancia que esos genitales alterados jugaban en la herencia de quienes habían nacido dentro de ella.
Caesar made no attempt whatsoever to play down the fact that the defeated enemy was Roman, though he committed no solecisms like displaying Gnaeus Pompey's head.
César no hizo el menor esfuerzo por minimizar el hecho de que el enemigo derrotado fuera romano, aunque no cometió el error de exhibir la cabeza de Cneo Pompeyo.
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