overstatement

英 [ˈəʊvəsteɪtmənt]

美 [ˈoʊvərsteɪtmənt]

n.  夸张; 夸大; 言过其实

复数：overstatements　

经济

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.
  1. 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。
  2. True emotion ought not to require overstatement.
     真实的感情不应当需要过分渲染。

英英释义

noun

• making to seem more important than it really is
  Synonym:exaggerationmagnification

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• True emotion ought not to require overstatement.
  真实的感情不应当需要过分渲染。
• The characters in the film adopt the strategies like overstatement or repetition to express their real intentions.
  电影中人物采取一些策略如过量陈述，含蓄陈述或重复法来表达其真实意图。
• It would not be the slightest bit of an overstatement to say that the study of humanities at its very core is man.
  可以不夸张地说，所有人文科学，归根到底都是关于“人”自身的科学。
• The growth is definite to happen, and the above said thing is not any overstatement.
  增长是必然的，以上所说的并非夸大。
• On the other hand, the claim that Tangxin is a master amounts to an overstatement when it comes to comparison with Chukochen.
  另一方面，当与竺可桢相比的时候，把汤昕称作大师的说法就显得不合实际了。
• Therefore, the analysis shows that the conventional method of using water vapour content in the atmosphere to estimate cloud water resources is very overstatement.
  因此，分析认为，以往通常采用大气中水汽含量评估人工增雨资源条件的方法，存在着不确切性。
• The mixture of overstatement, banter, humorous joking, imitation and irony makes Dong Xis creation of novels a superficial phenomenon of amusement.
  夸张、调侃、戏仿、反讽等手法的杂糅，使得东西小说的创作呈现出“搞笑”的叙述表象。