| 词汇 | overblown |
| 释义 | overblown adjective disapprovinguk /ˌəʊ.vəˈbləʊn/ us /ˌoʊ.vɚˈbloʊn/ bigger or more important or impressive than it should be: 夸张的;过分渲染的 an overblown news story过分渲染的新闻报道 His style of conducting is precise and delicate, never overblown.他的指挥风格准确细腻，毫不夸张。 Exaggerating & playing down bloviate blow something out of proportionidiom cartoonish cartoonishly catastrophize fulsome go overboardidiom grandiloquent inflated make a mountain out of a molehillidiom make little of somethingidiom make much of somethingidiom make something of something/someone meal mildly minimization overrated protest too muchidiom underplay underrate overblown | American Dictionaryoverblown adjective us/ˈoʊ·vərˈbloʊn/ made to seem more important or bigger than what is really true: As for the wage gap, Davis says it's overblown. Examples of overblownoverblown In the hot winds, they screamed their overblown upper harmonics, activated by the wind's force and the over-dried strings. It's all very sincere, with an actor's temperament, it's all overblown, and therefore all the feelings are exaggerated. The rhetoric of this passage seems a bit overblown. While his treatment of facts is generally accurate, his interpretation of events is sometimes overblown, too often tailored to fit military arguments or justifications. This tendency toward overblown rhetoric exacerbates the legitimacy problem confronting contemporary presidency, for it sets expectations far beyond the capacities of the office to deliver. He attempted to focus tightly on the technical points of the case and to deflate the plaintiffs' overblown rhetoric. Each time the anecdote was sewn crudely into a successive text, the episode was overblown a little more, and it quickly pulled the event beyond all sense of proportion. However, the claim is overblown. It should be noted that many scholars believe the scandal has been overblown and the prosecution of government officials for it was both ethically and legally problematic. Octopuslike, massively overblown cities spilt out into administratively colonized and atmospherically and morally polluted woods, fields and streams. They made lots of lovely comparisons, but at the same time, a lot of them also said, oh, it's long and it's overblown, and it's preachy. Air intelligence reports were similarly overblown. I respectfully suggest to him that comparisons between that incredibly tense situation and what is happening now are overblown hoo-hah. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No undertaking has been made to expand the cadet forces, and media reports of a possible expansion have been overblown. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We do not want to recreate some gigantic, over-centralised, overblown structure more appropriate to the 19th century. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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