exaggerations

英 [ɪgˌzædʒəˈreɪʃənz]

美 [ɪgˌzædʒəˈreɪʃənz]

n.  夸张; 夸大; 言过其实
exaggeration的复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 夸大;夸张
  If youexaggerate, you indicate that something is, for example, worse or more important than it really is.
  1. He thinks I'm exaggerating...
     他觉得我在夸大其词。
  2. Don't exaggerate...
     别夸张。
  3. Sheila admitted that she did sometimes exaggerate the demands of her job.
     希拉承认自己有时候确实夸大了工作的难度。
• VERB 突出;夸大
  If somethingexaggeratesa situation, quality, or feature, it makes the situation, quality, or feature appear greater, more obvious, or more important than it really is.
  1. These figures exaggerate the loss of competitiveness...
     这些数字夸大了竞争力的丧失。
  2. The dress exaggerates her wasp waist and enlarges her bosom.
     那件连衣裙凸显了她的蜂腰，也让她的胸部看起来更丰满。

双语例句

• In our view, it is generally accepted that pan-democratic Legco members have gone too far, but the two Tsangs'comments on the affair seem exaggerations.
  我们认为，此事泛民议员「玩大咗」，已属定论，而「双曾」对此事的回应，也有「言过其实」之嫌。
• This is a breed that has no gross or incapacitating exaggerations and therefore there is no inherent reason for lack of balance or unsound movement.
  这个品种没有任何粗重或无能夸张的地方，所以他的步态没有理由显得不匀称或不健全。
• Friedman's simplifications and exaggerations, while provocative and stimulating in the hands of a man of his intelligence and originality, become tedious when pursued by less talented acolytes.
  弗里德曼的简练与夸张，在拥有他这样的才识和开创性的人手中，可谓激动人心、发人深思，但放在才能平庸的追随者身上，就变成单调乏味了。
• Maybe they are exaggerations and I think to some degree they are but it's revealing that both of these very serious readers of Machiavelli took him to be an apostle of freedom.
  也许他们过于夸张了，而且我认为，某种程度上他们确实是，但具有启迪意义的是，这两个严肃的马基雅维利的读者，都把他看作自由的传道者。
• Exposing fibs, exaggerations and indiscretions routinely used to undercut or derail political careers is migrating to the corporate world as a new tactic for unhappy shareholder activists to win changes they seek in the executive suite.
  揭露无伤大雅的谎言、牛皮和言行失检，这些通常用于政治攻击的小伎俩现在也开始出现在企业界，愤懑不平的维权股东开始使用这些手段来达到改变公司管理层的目的。
• The exact truth without any exaggerations or embellishments.
  没有任何夸张或添枝加叶的、精确的真实情况。
• A few are extreme extrapolations and one or two exaggerations from a kernel of truth.
  有一些是极端化的推论，还有来自对事实要点的一些夸张。
• Inner Mongolia Horqin local folk songs in creative than the often-used, metaphor, exaggerations, parallelism, such as who to approach.
  内蒙古科尔沁地方民歌在创作中常采用比兴、比喻、夸张、排比、拟人化等手法。
• His story was full of exaggerations.
  他的故事充满了夸张。
• Nu Skin released a statement on Wednesday, before news of the official investigation, saying the article contains inaccuracies and exaggerations and the reporters did not attempt to verify any information with Nu Skin.
  在官方要启动调查的消息传出之前的周三，如新发表声明回应称，《人民日报》的文章含有不准确和夸张的内容，记者没有尝试与如新核实任何信息。