overstatement
英 [ˈəʊvəsteɪtmənt]
美 [ˈoʊvərsteɪtmənt]
n. 夸张; 夸大; 言过其实
BNC.34618 / COCA.21604
柯林斯词典
- N-VAR 夸张；夸大；言过其实
If you refer to the way something is described isan overstatement, you mean it is described in a way that makes it seem more important or serious than it really is.- This may have been an improvement, but 'breakthrough' was an overstatement...
这算得上是一个改进吧，但说是“突破”就言过其实了。 - True emotion ought not to require overstatement.
真实的感情不应当需要过分渲染。
- This may have been an improvement, but 'breakthrough' was an overstatement...
英英释义
noun
- making to seem more important than it really is
双语例句
- To say that everybody had a blast is a gross overstatement, I know at least three people left early because of boredom.
说大家都玩得很开心也太夸张了。我知道至少有三个人因为觉得无聊而提早离开了。 - We believe it is an overstatement to consider that raising pigeons in public squares expresses an increase people's environmental awareness.
我们认为，把放养广场鸽看成人们环保意识增强的体现言过其实了。 - It would be an overstatement to say that Lewis deserved to win the race.
说刘易斯该赢得这次比赛是言过其实。 - It is no overstatement to say that Internet has revolutionized the way we live, work, study and play.
可以毫不夸张地说，没有广告的生活对一个现代人来说是无法想象的。 - Therefore, it is not an overstatement to say that metadata integration is the brain of an On Demand Business.
因此，说元数据集成是随需应变业务的“大脑”一点都不夸张。 - The "friends" was, of course, an overstatement.
“朋友”这个词儿当然有点言过其词。 - It is not an overstatement to say a crisis is imminent.
说危机当头绝非危言耸听。 - Even assuming that a goal is truly worthy, it is an extremely broad overstatement to say that just because a certain goal is worthy, then whatever it takes to reach that goal is justifiable.
即使假定某个目标的确是值得追求的，但如果有人说因为某个目标值得追求所以不管采取什么手段达到这一目标都是正当的，那么，这便是一种过于宽泛的夸张说法。 - From the view of the international economic strategy, it is made an overstatement so that we should be vigilant to it as a trick of a few developed countries to seek hegemony.
从国际经济战略层面看，经济全球化被说得过分了，要警惕它被扭曲成为少数发达国家企图化解多极化趋势，谋求霸权的一种手段。 - This may have been an improvement, but 'breakthrough' was an overstatement
这算得上是一个改进吧，但说是“突破”就言过其实了。