夸大,指把事情说得超过了实际程度;言过其实。“夸大”一词来源于古英语“pyffan",意为“一阵风吹过”或者“膨胀、使骄纵、满足”。
vi. exaggerate
vt. overstate
这些数字夸大了竞争力的下降。
对这项产品的需求给过分夸大了。
新闻界照例又夸大了这件事。
What's happening right now in the United States - is that the economy is collapsing- maybe that's overstating it.
现如今在美国发生的是,经济正在崩溃-,也许这是夸大这件事。
which ends with that line, you'll remember: "New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large."
它的结尾是这样的,你们应该记得:,“新的长老只是夸大的旧的牧师而已,“
A sleep macho used to be "I only get forty-two minutes of sleep a night."
夸大数字的那些人,“我一晚只睡了42分钟”
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