| 词汇 | over-egg-the-pudding |
| 释义 | over-egg the puddingidiom to make something seem larger, more important, better, or worse than it really is: 夸大;过分渲染 We all know insurance claimants who have over-egged the pudding to increase their payouts. It would be overegging the pudding to describe the system as universally popular.将该系统描述为盛极一时，这未免过于夸张了。 Synonym exaggerate to spoil something by trying too hard to improve it: 着力过猛 There are some great moments, but the writer tends to over-egg the pudding with metaphors and similes when all she's describing is a group of women getting through the day.尽管纪录了一些伟大的时刻，但是作者不过是在叙述一群妇女打发日子的平凡事迹，不需要频频用隐喻和明喻来过度渲染。 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 OTT protest too muchidiom underplay underrate |
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