| 词汇 | overstate |
| 释义 | overstate verb[ T ] uk /ˌəʊ.vəˈsteɪt/ us /ˌoʊ.vɚˈsteɪt/ to describe or explain something in a way that makes it seem more important or serious than it really is: 把…讲得过分，夸大 The impact of the new legislation has been greatly overstated.新立法的影响被过分夸大了。 The shareholders seem to think that the executive board is overstating the case for a merger.股东们似乎认为执行董事会在合并这件事上小题大做了。 Synonym exaggerate Opposites downplay minimize understate 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 overstate | American Dictionaryoverstate verb[ T ] us/ˌoʊ·vərˈsteɪt/ to state something too strongly, or to state that it is greater than it really is: The prospect of a trade war is vastly overstated. overstate | Business Englishoverstate verb[ T ] uk /ˌəʊvəˈsteɪt/us to describe or explain something in a way that makes it seem more important or serious than it really is: The shareholders seem to think that the executive board is overstating the case for a merger. greatly/vastly overstate sthThe impact of the new legislation has been greatly overstated. Compare understate Examples of overstateoverstate This is repetitive and, as a result, somewhat overstated. The above figures might overstate the number of families entitled to pension credit since they ignore the introduction of the state second pension. Nonetheless, two factors indicate that these advantages can be overstated. The interviewer's role in continuously monitoring the success of the communication process cannot be overstated, and it requires both skill and sensitivity. These observations, however, both overstate and understate the impact of inspections on inspected bodies. The significance of investigating the interactional employment of adverbials in situ and within naturally occurring interaction cannot be overstated. The importance of careful pronunciation cannot be overstated, yet in many performances it is completely overlooked or ignored. Moreover, while marking mechanical errors can be frustrating, the view that there is no direct connection between correction and learning is greatly overstated. This tactic, of course, provided the groundwork for wildly overstated claims about the epistemological adequacy of scientific methods. So apart from the utilitarian and aesthetic aspects of wood, its symbolic significance as representing brahman cannot be overstated. This infusion of federal assistance to state systems of crime control was the first of its kind and the change it wrought cannot be overstated. The importance of linking the drug regime with pragmatic goals can hardly be overstated; every drug prescription must in some sense be a rehabilitation intervention. However, the simplicity of its mechanisms for dialogue coordination may be overstated and the hypothesized direct priming channel between interlocutors' situation models is questionable. The 1998 table is similar to the new table that was adopted in 2004 for men but overstates mortality for women. This seems to me to be slightly overstating the case. 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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