V-T If you understate something, you describe it in a way that suggests that it is less important or serious than it really is. 不充分陈述
The government chooses deliberately to understate the increase in prices.
政府有意选择对价格的上涨轻描淡写。
It may be a well-informed, well-researched opinion, but it's still an opinion, so talk tentatively and slightly understates your confidence.
这可能是一个信息丰富、经过充分研究的观点，但它仍然是一个观点，因此，应用试探性的语气谈论，并稍微减少一点你的自信。
Yet this, too, understates the potential for battle.
然而，这也同样低估了竞争的规模。
Therefore it understates the likely long-term gains.
因此，这个模型缺少可能随之而来的长期收益。
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