| 词汇 | understate |
| 释义 | understate verb[ T ] uk /ˌʌn.dəˈsteɪt/ us /ˌʌn.dɚˈsteɪt/ to describe something in a way that makes it seem less important, serious, bad, etc. than it really is: 对…轻描淡写;不如实陈述;避重就轻地说 She believes the research understates the amount of discrimination women suffer.她认为该研究对妇女所遭受的歧视轻描淡写。 Synonyms downplay minimize Opposites emphasize exaggerate foreground highlight overplay overstate spotlight 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 understate | American Dictionaryunderstate verb[ T ] us/ˌʌn·dərˈsteɪt/ to say that the amount or importance of something is less than it really is: The company was accused of understating potential side effects of the drug. understatementnoun[ C/U ]us/ˌʌn·dərˈsteɪt·mənt/ [ C ]To say I was confused is an understatement – I hadn’t the slightest idea what to do. understate | Business Englishunderstate verb[ T ] ACCOUNTINGuk /ˌʌndəˈsteɪt/us to give an amount as less than it really is: The company's conservative accounting methods mean that results are actually understated. understate costs/profits to make something seem less serious or important than it really is: Official figures hugely understate a growing problem. Compareoverstate Examples of understateunderstate This assumption may in fact understate the value of reducing risks somewhat. These observations, however, both overstate and understate the impact of inspections on inspected bodies. Most start by understating the problem of remuneration, some going as far as volunteering for unpaid work. In corporate finance, it understates the profits of highly levered firms. The impacts of mortality table and backcasting indicated that our methodology likely understates deferred compensation. A chapter on the assessment of dementia emphasises psychological assessment but understates the importance of psychiatric mental-state examination, nursing assessment and social work assessment. This organisation has been understated by scholars because, unlike prototypical working class party structures, it is informal and highly decentralised. The graph understates the total investment in 1983 since a third of the short-term pain took the form of immediate benefit cuts, not captured here. To the extent that this assumption is incorrect, the table will understate the change consequent upon the married women's property acts. They also understate the coherence of societal relations which bind members of different life course stages or of (coeval) generations. Because we cannot distinguish between non-affiliates and affiliates, who have a higher labor force participation rate, we probably understate the labor force attachment of affiliates. Such an approach runs the risk of understating those aspects of relationships which change only slowly. Thus, statistics that tabulate the hardware of access greatly understate the number of people who sign on in a week. He also understates the extent and energy of industrialization, social change and class- and ethnic-based politics in other southern cities. This almost certainly understates their overall environmental performance in the entire period, and thus biases the results against finding a strong effect of neo-corporatism. 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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