Some experts wondered if the move to make testing less important world hurt the testing companies.

一些专家想知道，降低考试重要性举措是否会损害考试公司利益。

Some experts wondered if the move to make testing less important would hurt the testing companies.

一些专家想知道，降低考试重要性举措是否会损害考试公司利益。

Partly it is because popes matter less.

部分原因在于教皇重要性降低。

Modern histories pay less attention, for many reasons.

现代史学因多种原因较少关注这些，部分是因为教皇重要性降低。

So in that sense, they seem less important.

因此从这个角度来看，重要性乎降低。

Energy conservation, a shift to other fuels and a decline in the importance of heavy, energy-intensive industries have reduced oil consumption.

能源储备、燃料替代以及能源密集型重工业重要性降低，都减少石油消耗量。

Thus their reduced importance matters not just for investors, but for regulators monitoring financial stability and analysts assessing the market.

因此， 它重要性降低不仅对投资者有影响，而且对监督金融稳定监管机构和评估市场分析师也有影响。

In fact, there's a positive incentive to develop land because that makes the tax less significant compared to the economic value of what you own.

事实上，开发土地有一种积极激励，因为与你所拥有土地经济价值相比，税收重要性降低。

To play something down is to try to make it seem less important. When the project failed, he tried to play down his role in it.

play something down是指降低某物重要性。项目失败之后，试图降低自己在其中重要性。

There is a weakened bond of kinship, and declining social family significance as America has transferred industrial, educational and recreational activities to specialized institutions outside of the home.

随着美国把工业、教育和娱乐活动转移到户外专门机构，亲属关系被削弱，社会家庭重要性降低。

However, this does not diminish the importance of gaokao but instead clarifies its core spirit, which is that under the principle of fairness, it motivates young people to strive and struggle for their dreams.

然而，这并没有降低高考重要性，而是阐释高考核心精神，即在公平原则下，激励轻人为自己梦想而奋斗。

She's so talented, but she's always trying to play it down. To play something up is the opposite: to try to make something seem more important. In the job interview, play up your strengths.

她很有天赋，但她总想降低自己重要性。play something up意思正好相反：提高某物重要性。在求职面试时，强调你优势。

'Then if, on the other hand, you are restless and anxious about the future, study astronomy at once. Your troubles will be reduced amazingly. But your study will reduce them in a singular way, by reducing the importance of everything.

“那么，另一方面，如果你对未来感到不安和焦虑，那就马上研究天文学吧。”你麻烦会大大减少。但是你研究将通过降低一切重要性以一种独特方式减少它。