| 词汇 | misrepresent |
| 释义 | misrepresent verb[ T ] uk /ˌmɪs.rep.rɪˈzent/ us /ˌmɪs.rep.rɪˈzent/ to describe falsely an idea, opinion, or situation, often in order to get an advantage: 不如实地叙述（或说明）;误传;歪曲;诈称 She accused her opponents of deliberately misrepresenting her as an extremist.她指责对手故意诬陷她是极端分子。 I've grown used to my views being misrepresented in the press.我已经对新闻界歪曲我的观点习以为常了。 to say something not true in order to deceive lieAll she does is lie - you can't believe a word she says. tell a lieI cannot tell a lie: I chopped down the cherry tree. lie through your teethHe lied through his teeth that he didn't go to the cinema, though he was still holding the ticket stub in his hand as he said it. fibI don't like fibbing, but I didn't want to hurt his feelings by saying his gift was awful. misleadI'm afraid you've been misled. She is, in fact, married. deludeHe's deluding himself if he thinks that he's getting that promotion. Lies, lying & hypocrisy a pack of liesidiom artifice bad faith black is whiteidiom cakeism falsehood falsification feed someone a lineidiom fib fiction lie mythologize perjure perjury polygraph someone can talk!idiom stretch the truthidiom weasel words white lie whopper misrepresent | American Dictionarymisrepresent verb[ T ] us/mɪsˌrep·rɪˈzent/ to represent something or someone falsely, often in order to obtain an advantage: He misrepresented facts about his legal experience on his application. misrepresent | Business Englishmisrepresent verb[ T ] LAWuk /ˌmɪsreprɪˈzent/us to give false information about something or someone, often in order to get an advantage: She believes that the defendant's lawyers misrepresented the situation. be misrepresented (by sb/in sth)The monetary policy has been misrepresented in the press. misrepresent information/data/the factsShareholders claimed that the company concealed or misrepresented financial information. misrepresent yourself (as sth)At age 20 he misrepresented himself as an experienced businessman, making millions of dollars. Examples of misrepresentmisrepresent Indeed, group analyses largely misrepresented the types of change parents' communication underwent, and how they might relate to children's development. By transferring control of the productive resource to the host country, the agent will have stronger economic incentives not to misrepresent its private information. This example, though exaggerated, illustrates that the interpretation of nonverbal cues is at best imperfect, and at worst may completely misrepresent the patient's wishes. In other words, under a high degree of media openness, it becomes very unlikely that states' capability and resolve can be misrepresented or disguised. But just to dwell on its flaws is to misrepresent and underrate this book. Theories can be harmful if used to misrepresent the extent of knowledge or to limit the breath of study. However, even this historical perspective would misrepresent psychologists' interest in the self, for it recognizes only studies that explicitly examine individual identity and coherence. In many cases, men who misrepresented their identities at the polls simply could not be found after the election was held. It is great when you can cite yourself as the authority, and even better when you can do so without misrepresenting entire sub-disciplines. For many years, the formalists have been able to avoid misrepresenting the positions of the connectionists and the functionalists by simply ignoring their existence. The views of those they discuss are misrepresented, frequently egregiously. Consequently, asymmetry of information between borrower and lender provides the former with an incentive to misrepresent actual productivity in an effort to reduce his payment. He was worried, too, that what he had said would be misrepresented. Many aspects of modern life had previously been disregarded or misrepresented in traditional teaching materials. Such a framework misrepresents the ways in which age-related processes are integral to the structuring and reproduction of inequality. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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