美式咖啡就是被热水冲淡了的意式特浓。

Americano is an espresso shot that is diluted to taste with hot water.

youdao

般黑军服的这个肥头胖脑、汪汪狂叫的庸才，他所感到的主要是给谨慎小心冲淡了的轻蔑。

For the barking fat-faced mediocrity in the stagy black uniform he feels chiefly to be attempted, modified by caution.

youdao

这故事的生动性被冲淡了。

The story has been watered down.

《新英汉大辞典》

It's that backdrop--it's that sense of bureaucratized existence-- that defamiliarization has, to a certain extent, the ideological purpose of dispelling and undermining.

而这种灰色的机械的背景-,在一定程度上被文学带来的陌生化，冲淡了，减弱了。

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