1."There is a window of opportunity to tamp this down, but that window is closing. We need action now to scale up the response."
tamp down (用多次輕擊以)向下壓緊;將…壓下:
He tamped down the tobacco in his pipe and lit it.
他把煙絲壓實(shí)在煙斗內(nèi),然后點(diǎn)燃它 。
The Hong Kong government has tried its best to tamp down overexuberance in recent months.
最近幾個(gè)月,香港政府已在盡全力打壓房?jī)r(jià)的過(guò)度上漲 。