英:['əʊvəsteɪtmənt]
美:['oʊvəsteɪtmənt]
英:['əʊvəsteɪtmənt]
美:['oʊvəsteɪtmənt]
复数:overstatements
词根:overstate
adj.overstated 夸张的;过高的
v.overstated 夸大;夸张;过分强调(overstate的过去分词)
vt.overstate 夸张;夸大的叙述
"夸张的陈述",1783年,来自 over- + statement。
The first known use of overstate was in 1792
overstateverb
to state in too strong terms : exaggerate
1 Characterizing "House of Ho" as feminist or thumbing its nose at patriarchal practices may be an overstatement.
2 Asher wants a revolution, and her conviction is invigorating, but it also leads to an occasional overstatement of claims.
3 Now, it’s not an overstatement to say that A.W.S. is ubiquitous online.
4 Americans resist overstatement because we want to reassure ourselves we're a good country at heart. But history has more often proved on this topic that we're not.
美国人排斥夸大是因为想要确信自己本质上是个美好的国家,但是历史更多地证明我们不是。
5 It’s certainly an overstatement, but the Free Staters have been active in the political arena.
6 These are Hollywood movies with “Hollywood” in italics and quotation marks, combining lurid overstatement with subtle, even subliminal irony.
7 When it invokes Pompeii and Treblinka it does so in a vein of deliberate overstatement and desperation.
8 Therefore, it is not an overstatement to say that metadata integration is the brain of an on Demand Business.
因此,说元数据集成是随需应变业务的“大脑”一点都不夸张。
9 "Taking place" was nearly an overstatement as the convention has been curtailed owing to fears over hurricane Isaac.
10 Without overstatement, Williamson described any attempt as "one of the most dangerous in the world".
11 These analysts generally contend that current measures of inflation are overstated because of lagging indicators, reflecting cost pressures from over a year ago, that will ebb in summer.
12 I think his response is mostly true, yet an overstatement.
13 The Met Breuer wants to insist that these more freely painted works from the 1910s onward have been overlooked, though that is an overstatement.
14 That may have been an overstatement, but it did reflect what some mainstream rappers saw as their responsibility to be spokespeople for Black culture.
15 He is aware of such a small percentage of matter and energy about him that to say that he comprehends 1% of what the universe is composed of would be an overstatement.
你们对宇宙的物质和能量的了解如此之少以至于说你理解了宇宙组成的1%都是在夸你。
16 He believes that there are equal parts justice and injustice in every human interaction; this gives his songs a kind of measured equanimity, which can feel especially precious in our era of audacious overstatement.
17 I didn’t find an entire evening’s worth of overstatement especially satisfying.
18 That’s actually an overstatement, an eventuality only if we don’t make a powerful attempt to change our ways.
19 “Huge” might be an overstatement, but it’s certainly healthy.
20 But over time the latter has consistently been revised up, suggesting that any overstatement is modest.
但是经过一段时间,后者会被一致地修改,这表明任何夸大其实都是在适度的范围内。
1 夸张
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