exaggerate
- v. 夸大，言过其实；使扩大
[ 第三人称单数 exaggerates 现在分词 exaggerating 过去式 exaggerated 过去分词 exaggerated ]
专业释义英英释义
exaggerate [ iɡ'zædʒəreit ]
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v.
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to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
"tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
同义词： overstate overdraw hyperbolize hyerbolise magnify amplify
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do something to an excessive degree
同义词： overdo
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to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
以上来源于: WordNet
柯林斯英汉双解大词典
exaggerate /ɪɡˈzædʒəˌreɪt/ CET4 TEM4 ( exaggerating, exaggerated, exaggerates )
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V-T/V-I If you exaggerate, you indicate that something is, for example, worse or more important than it really is. 夸大
例：He thinks I'm exaggerating.
他认为我在夸大其词。
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exaggeration N-VAR 夸大
例：Like many stories about him, it smacks of exaggeration.
像很多有关他的故事一样，这个也有点儿夸大的意味。
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V-T If something exaggerates a situation, quality, or feature, it makes the situation, quality, or feature appear greater, more obvious, or more important than it really is. 夸大
例：These figures exaggerate the loss of competitiveness.
这些数字夸大了竞争力的下降。
双语例句原声例句权威例句
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He tends to exaggerate the difficulties.
他往往夸大困难。
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These figures exaggerate the loss of competitiveness.
这些数字夸大了竞争力的下降。
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A painter may exaggerate or distort shapes and forms.
画家可能会夸大或扭曲形状与形式。
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It's not occured to me that we shouldn't think fondly or even sort of exaggerate our past.
我也不认为,我们应该喜欢,或者甚至夸张我们的过去。
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We can exaggerate the power of Peter the Great in this vast empire that's expanding south and already expanding toward Siberia and such distant places.
彼得大帝在自己幅员辽阔的帝国享有至高权力,这是怎么夸张都不过分的,他不断地向南边扩张,版图甚至已经触及到了,西伯利亚这样的边远地区
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I don't want to exaggerate this too much but the largest riots in Britain in the eighteenth century are not the riots for political reform at all.
我不想过多地夸张,但十八世纪英国最大的暴乱,完全不是关于政治改革
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