downgrading

英 [ˌdaʊnˈɡreɪdɪŋ]

美 [ˌdaʊnˈɡreɪdɪŋ]

v.  使降职; 使降级; 贬低; 降低; 低估
downgrade的现在分词

复数：downgradings　现在分词：downgrading　

经济

BNC.24603 / COCA.31051

柯林斯词典

• VERB 贬低;降低;低估
  If somethingis downgraded, it is given less importance than it used to have or than you think it should have.
  1. The boy's condition has been downgraded from critical to serious...
     男孩已脱离生命危险，但病情仍很严重。
  2. The female role has been downgraded altogether in the drive for greater equality.
     在争取更多平等的运动中，女性角色完全被贬低了。
• VERB 使降职;使降级
  If someoneis downgraded, their job or status is changed so that they become less important or receive less money.
  1. There was no criticism of her work until after she was downgraded...
     在被降职前她的工作从未受过批评。
  2. His superiors suspended him, and then downgraded him.
     他的上司先将他暂时停职，随后把他降职。

双语例句

• You can destroy a brand by relentlessly downgrading the product and disappointing expectations, but it takes time.
  毫无顾忌地降低产品品质，令消费者大失所望，可能会摧毁一个品牌，但这要经过一段时间。
• My colleague has adamantly refused, as she sees this as a downgrading of her skills, which she has tried very hard to build to more value-added activities.
  我这位同事坚决拒绝了，因为她认为这是贬低她的技能，她一直非常努力地提高自己的技能，来完成附加值更高的工作。
• The White House reportedly tried to get S& P to change its mind about downgrading the outlook for the US before it announced the downgrade, but it was just too late.
  据称在标准普尔公布下调美国前景评级前，白宫曾试图让其改变主意，但太晚了。
• So why should the rating agencies be downgrading France and not Britain?
  至于评级机构为何要降低法国、而不是英国的评级？
• The packages have not been sufficient to calm the markets or stop the rot from spreading: 2010 ended with Fitch downgrading Portugal and putting Greece on negative rating watch.
  一揽子计划比不足以稳定市场或阻止形式的恶化，因此2010年终的时候，惠誉国际贬低了对葡萄牙评价，并且将希腊列入负面评价。
• Rating agencies responded by downgrading the company.
  评级机构对此的回应则是降低该公司的评级。
• On that basis, he added, the agencies should begin by downgrading the triple A rating of Britain, which has bigger deficits, more debt, higher inflation, less growth than us and where credit is shrinking.
  他补充道，从经济基本面考虑，评级机构应该首先降低英国的3A评级，因为与法国相比，英国有更高的赤字、债务和通胀，更低的增长，且信贷正在萎缩。
• But such has been the downgrading of air travel in recent years that food is no longer a given, let alone wine.
  不过，近些年航空旅行体验开始逐渐降格，机上食物不再免费，酒就更别提了。
• A downgrading of all triple A rated members would have been much easier to deal with politically. Germany is now the only large country left with a triple A rating.
  下调欧元区所有AAA级成员国的评级，在政治上会容易应对得多。德国目前成为欧元区唯一一个拥有AAA评级的大国。
• Second, they cannot be seen as taking a schizophrenic view to sovereign debt risks, a hard stance on Europe ( downgrading the one country after another) and a soft on the US.
  其次，它们不能对主权债务风险采取“精神分裂式”的看法，对欧洲（下调一个又一个国家的信用评级）采取强硬立场，而对美国则采取温和立场。