overstatement
英 [ˈəʊvəsteɪtmənt]
美 [ˈoʊvərsteɪtmənt]
n. 夸张; 夸大; 言过其实
BNC.34618 / COCA.21604
柯林斯词典
- N-VAR 夸张;夸大;言过其实
If you refer to the way something is described isan overstatement, you mean it is described in a way that makes it seem more important or serious than it really is.- This may have been an improvement, but 'breakthrough' was an overstatement...
这算得上是一个改进吧,但说是“突破”就言过其实了。 - True emotion ought not to require overstatement.
真实的感情不应当需要过分渲染。
- This may have been an improvement, but 'breakthrough' was an overstatement...
英英释义
noun
- making to seem more important than it really is
双语例句
- From the view of the international economic strategy, it is made an overstatement so that we should be vigilant to it as a trick of a few developed countries to seek hegemony.
从国际经济战略层面看,经济全球化被说得过分了,要警惕它被扭曲成为少数发达国家企图化解多极化趋势,谋求霸权的一种手段。 - Even assuming that a goal is truly worthy, it is an extremely broad overstatement to say that just because a certain goal is worthy, then whatever it takes to reach that goal is justifiable.
即使假定某个目标的确是值得追求的,但如果有人说因为某个目标值得追求所以不管采取什么手段达到这一目标都是正当的,那么,这便是一种过于宽泛的夸张说法。 - We believe it is an overstatement to consider that raising pigeons in public squares expresses an increase people's environmental awareness.
我们认为,把放养广场鸽看成人们环保意识增强的体现言过其实了。 - The growth is definite to happen, and the above said thing is not any overstatement.
增长是必然的,以上所说的并非夸大。 - This may have been an improvement, but 'breakthrough' was an overstatement
这算得上是一个改进吧,但说是“突破”就言过其实了。 - In Chapter Five, the deep-structure deviation has been studied from the aspect of contradiction, transference and overstatement.
第五章从矛盾、转移、夸张三个角度进行了深层结构变异及其翻译的分析。 - Later she changes her writing style obviously in The Red Mushroom and The Only Sun from the pursuit of poetic depiction to realistic description, from romantic writing to impudent overstatement.
近期的《红蘑菇》《只有一个太阳》等作品在创作风格上有了明显的变化,从诗情的追求转向反诗情,从浪漫诗意化的写作转向夸张的粗鄙化的叙述。 - Therefore, the analysis shows that the conventional method of using water vapour content in the atmosphere to estimate cloud water resources is very overstatement.
因此,分析认为,以往通常采用大气中水汽含量评估人工增雨资源条件的方法,存在着不确切性。 - To say that everybody had a blast is a gross overstatement, I know at least three people left early because of boredom.
说大家都玩得很开心也太夸张了。我知道至少有三个人因为觉得无聊而提早离开了。 - It is interesting that many artists almost deal with the sideline every day, but did not realize its role and value, this is not an overstatement.
有意思的是很多艺术家几乎天天都在与边线打交道,却没有意识到它的作用跟价值,这绝非言过其实。