| 词汇 | overplaying |
| 释义 | overplaying present participle ofoverplay overplay verb[ T ] uk /ˌəʊ.vəˈpleɪ/ us /ˌoʊ.vɚˈpleɪ/ to make something seem more important than it really is: 夸大…的重要性;把…做得过分;过分强调;过分重视 I think she's overplaying the significance of his remarks.我认为她过分强调了他的话的重要性。 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 Idiomoverplay your hand Examples of overplayingoverplaying In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. But we are in danger of overplaying our hand. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Does he mean try a bit of overplaying my hand or try a bit of farming? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He spent a long time today overplaying his hand. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I can give another small but sad example of the risk of this overplaying. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nor will he succeed by overplaying his hand. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Surely his own experience leads him to know that the use of the word "all" was somewhat overplaying his case. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is overplaying the card of subsidence deterring developers coming into former mining areas. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is nothing to be gained from overplaying the agreement but a great deal to be lost from underplaying it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A bank manager was overplaying his hand; he received a rude answer from me; eventually he lost the account and lost a good many other people's accounts too. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At the same time, we do no good to the cause of those who seek to get rid of the bad by overplaying the case against clubs as a whole. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Care should be taken by the people responsible to see that the individuals for whom the playing fields are primarily obtained are the last sufferers when overplaying has taken place. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The increasing number of advertisements, as well as overplaying of the same advertisement, are secondary annoyance factors. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They can use any given situation or feeling and produce a whole record without overplaying or showboating, they just get their point across and finish in silence. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. She was highly pleased with the final fifteen minutes, noting that in those final moments, this series hit every note we could have wanted, without overplaying any of them. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Another aspect of the communist strategy of seizing power involved the overplaying of the identity between their position as the outcast and the general state of the population. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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