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exaggerate
难度：3星常用词汇，属常用6000词
基本释义
vt.夸张；夸大；对...言过其实
vi.夸张；夸大其词
双语释义
v.(动词)
vt. & vi. (使)扩大,(使)增加 (cause to) enlarge or increase
vt. & vi. 夸大,夸张 make too large; say or think sth greater than it is; overstate
同义词
v. amplify，hyerbolise，hyperbolize，overdo
反义词
v. downplay，minimise，minimize，understate
词汇辨析
exaggerate，magnify
这两个动词均有“夸大，夸张”之意。
exaggerate 指有意或无意地夸张或夸大，含强烈“过火”意味。
magnify 本义为“放大或扩大”，引申用与exaggerate含义类似，但不如exaggerate常用。
参考例句
1. those shoes exaggerate the size of his feet.
那双鞋使他的双脚显得过大。
2. now dont exaggerate . tell me the whole truth.
现在不要夸张。告诉我全部的真相。
3. let us not exaggerate, this cherub of the gutter sometimes has a shirt.
不应当过分夸大，清溪旁边的那个小天使有时也有一件衬衫。
1.v-t/v-i if you exaggerate, you indicate that something is, for example, worse or more important than it really is. 夸大
例：he thinks i'm exaggerating.
他认为我在夸大其词。
2.exaggeration n-var 夸大
例：like many stories about him, it smacks of exaggeration.
像很多有关他的故事一样，这个也有点儿夸大的意味。
3.v-t if something exaggerates a situation, quality, or feature, it makes the situation, quality, or feature appear greater, more obvious, or more important than it really is. 夸大
例：these figures exaggerate the loss of competitiveness.
这些数字夸大了竞争力的下降。
常见用法
用作及物动词 (vt.)
don't exaggerate the parallelism between the two cases.
不要夸大那两件事的相似性。
the seriousness of the situation has been much exaggerated by the press.
形势的严重性被报纸夸大了。
he tends to exaggerate the difficulties.
他往往夸大困难。
we should neither exaggerate nor ignore the differences.
虽然我们不能夸大这些不同，但是我们也不能忽视它们的存在。
when they talk about something, they tend to exaggerate it.
当他们谈论一件事情时，他们总喜欢夸大其词。
用作不及物动词 (vi.)
if you exaggerate, you will sound fantastically american.
如果你发音夸张听起来会特别有美国味。
during the interview, some interviewees tend to exaggerate.
面试时,有些面试者会有夸大的倾向。