| 词汇 | exaggerating |
| 释义 | exaggerating present participle ofexaggerate exaggerate verb[ I or T ] uk /ɪɡˈzædʒ.ə.reɪt/ us /ɪɡˈzædʒ.ə.reɪt/ C1 to make something seem larger, more important, better, or worse than it really is: 夸大;过分渲染 be greatly exaggeratedThe threat of attack has been greatly exaggerated.遭受袭击的威胁被过分夸大了。 Don't exaggerate - it wasn't that expensive.不要言过其实——没有那么贵。 I'm not exaggerating - it was the worst meal I've ever eaten in my life.我不是在夸大其词——那是我这辈子吃到的最难以下咽的饭了。 Synonyms emphasize foreground highlight overplay overstate spotlight Opposites downplay minimize understate You shouldn't believe everything she says - she does tend to exaggerate. The minister suggested that some leading environmentalists were exaggerating the issues somewhat. She was a bit annoyed, but she wasn't furious - don't exaggerate. I don't think it would be exaggerating to say that the composer's new work is a masterpiece. He has exaggerated the whole event to make it sound rather more dramatic than it actually was. 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 Related wordsexaggerated exaggeratedly Examples of exaggeratingexaggerating In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. By aping the discourse of nineteenth-century materialistic science, it acted out its hidden tensions, exaggerating them into unresolvable paradoxes. By exaggerating the basis for discretion, one increases power. His arguments defy collegial courtesy, exaggerating the trivial and making distorted or erroneous assertions. The extent to which legal systems have been integrated is discussed, but all of this is done without exaggerating the extent of integration. Sometimes this kind of campaigning involves a wilful misreading of stories in the international press, exaggerating their criticisms of domestic politics. There would be no point in exaggerating this. Patients' individual behavior varies; patients exaggerating their symptoms can progress faster in a queue. Making this claim frequently involves exaggerating the traits of the commercially dominant form. Seditious words cases cannot all be regarded as drunken indiscretions or developments of private feuds, with witnesses exaggerating or fabricating evidence. Read through a book slowly, exaggerating the rhyming words. We believe that this objection amounts to both underestimating a priori the power of associative mechanisms and exaggerating the actual accuracy of people-performance. In addition, exaggerating the ver tical component offered image information that was difficult to extract otherwise. I'm exaggerating word-wise, but not with my feelings. In the impaired model, the overall strength of the phonological representations was weakened, exaggerating the disadvantage of word final stops and fricatives. For clarity the radial scale is 10 x the axial scale, thereby grossly exaggerating the actual core displacement. 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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