| 词汇 | overstating |
| 释义 | overstating present participle ofoverstate 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 overrated protest too muchidiom underplay underrate Examples of overstatingoverstating In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Perhaps that's hugely overestimating the influence that the media has on youth, or, at least, overstating the longevity of any influence it may hold. This seems to me to be slightly overstating the case. Research is needed to address this issue further to avoid overstating the negative impact of caring. Nevertheless, there is a danger of overstating how much the individual differences approach can buy. Also, if there are a number of public funds, there is potential for overstating the leverage of public funds. Since the relationship is slightly concave, the errors introduced by understating persistence are smaller than those introduced by overstating persistence. Thus, by overstating their costs of abatement in the survey the firms stand to gain little. He suspected that the lawman was overstating his influence with the mayor, but thought it rude not to go along. By overstating the total costs of projects, these seemingly modest requests could defray a substantial portion of actual costs. As a result, economists who use the 'old' hedonic price function to value the improvement may be overstating long-run benefits associated with the uniform improvements. This is overstating the case for hospices in a way which could be counterproductive. We tried hard to avoid the traps of taking ourselves to be representative of, or overstating the homogeneity of, either discipline. Interestingly, these variations virtually prevent us from overstating the policy effects in the north and understating them in the south. Unfortunately, overstating of the case is apparent here too. These data suffer from the widely recognized phenomenon of overstating actual turnout. 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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