exaggerates

英 [ɪɡˈzædʒəreɪts]

美 [ɪɡˈzædʒəreɪts]

v.  夸张; 夸大; 言过其实
exaggerate的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 夸大;夸张
  If youexaggerate, you indicate that something is, for example, worse or more important than it really is.
  1. He thinks I'm exaggerating...
     他觉得我在夸大其词。
  2. Don't exaggerate...
     别夸张。
  3. Sheila admitted that she did sometimes exaggerate the demands of her job.
     希拉承认自己有时候确实夸大了工作的难度。
• VERB 突出;夸大
  If somethingexaggeratesa situation, quality, or feature, it makes the situation, quality, or feature appear greater, more obvious, or more important than it really is.
  1. These figures exaggerate the loss of competitiveness...
     这些数字夸大了竞争力的丧失。
  2. The dress exaggerates her wasp waist and enlarges her bosom.
     那件连衣裙凸显了她的蜂腰，也让她的胸部看起来更丰满。

双语例句

• That dress exaggerates her height.
  她穿那件连衣裙显得高了。
• Impossible is the western culture of simple supplement retouching, should not narrowly defined as exaggerates the banner of nationalism.
  不可能是西方文化的简单补充润饰，不应该狭窄地定义为宣扬民族主义的旗号。
• The shortage of water resource exaggerates the pollution of water body.
  水资源短缺与水体污染并存。
• Eg. he always exaggerates to make his stories more amusing.
  他总爱添枝加叶，把故事讲得更有趣。
• Everyone exaggerates the amount they earn and we all tell the odd fib about our jobs.
  每个人都会夸大自己的吸金能力，也多多少少会撒几个关于自己工作的小谎。
• The artist purposefully exaggerates the student's body to emphasize his prodigality, while dwarfing his parents to indicate their hardship.
  作画者故意夸张了学生的身体小从而强调了他的铺张生活，同时缩小了他父母的身体小来体现他们的辛苦。
• A local tradition, which evidently exaggerates matters, says that two thousand horses and fifteen hundred men were buried in the hollow road of Ohain.
  当地有一种传说，当然言过其实，说在奥安的那条凹路里坑了二千匹马和一千五百人。
• He exaggerates the superficiality of their current affairs programmes.
  他夸大其词地说他们的时事节目过于肤浅。
• I think this argument exaggerates what a non-elected council president can do in the absence of a joint foreign policy.
  我认为，在缺乏共同外交政策的情况下，这一说法夸大了非选举产生的理事会主席的能力。
• To a certain extent, this value judgment exaggerates the role of charters and the opposition between commerce and feudalism.
  这种价值判断在一定程度上夸大了特许状的作用，也夸大了商业和封建制度的对立性。