minimize

1. V-T If you minimize a risk, problem, or unpleasant situation, you reduce it to the lowest possible level, or prevent it from increasing beyond that level. 減到最低數(shù)量; 降到最低程度

Concerned people want to minimize the risk of developing cancer. 憂心忡忡的人們想把患上癌癥的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)降到最低。

2. V-T If you minimize something, you make it seem smaller or less significant than it really is. 貶低…的重要性

Some have minimized the importance of ideological factors. 一些人已經(jīng)貶低了意識(shí)形態(tài)因素的重要性。

3. V-T If you minimize a window on a computer screen, you make it very small, because you do not want to use it. 使最小化

Click the square icon again to minimize the window. 再次點(diǎn)擊正方形圖標(biāo)使那個(gè)窗口最小化。