Exaggerate
[ɪg'zædʒəreɪt;eg-] or [ɪɡ'zædʒəret]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To heap up; to accumulate.
(v. t.) To amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth ; to delineate extravagantly ; to overstate the truth concerning.
埃米莉錄入
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Overstate, heighten, amplify, overcharge, strain, stretch, overstrain, caricature, overcolor, depict extravagantly, color too highly.
邦妮整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Amplify, enlarge, heighten, magnify, overstate, overdraw, strain, overpaint,overestimate
ANT:Disparage, attenuate, palliate, understate, underestimate, lenity, mitigate,soften, qualify, modify
贾维斯整理
解釋/意思:
v.t. to magnify unduly: to represent too strongly: to intensify.—n. Exaggerā′tion extravagant representation: a statement in excess of the truth.—adjs. Exagg′erative Exagg′eratory containing exaggeration or tending to exaggerate.—n. Exagg′erator.
編輯:韦德
例句/造句/用法:
- You exaggerate fearfully, she said in a faint, weary voice; but I cannot enter into my defence--it is not worth doing. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Sir James's brow had a little crease in it, a little depression of the eyebrow, which he seemed purposely to exaggerate as he answered. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Indeed, indeed, you exaggerate, I heard him say. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Don't exaggerate, missy. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- What feeling I had on that occasion, Monsieur--and pardon me, if I say, you immensely exaggerate both its quality and quantity--was quite abstract. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- This tendency to exaggerate classification produces a thousand evils and injustices. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Nathaniel Pipkin had ocular demonstration of the fact, that the rumours of old Lobbs's treasures were not exaggerated. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- My readers, besides accusing me of vanity, would not believe such exaggerated feeling as he evinced, to be in human nature. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- This amiable baronet, really a suitable husband for Celia, exaggerated the necessity of making himself agreeable to the elder sister. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Ursula knew she gave herself away to the other woman, she knew she looked ill-bred, uncouth, exaggerated. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- In this, Plato was only following the common thought of his countrymen, which he embellished and exaggerated with all the power of his genius. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The public mind had been much disturbed by reports, possibly by exaggerated reports, of a recent banquet at Versailles, hostile to the nation. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Parsons' is one whose significance in happiness can hardly be exaggerated. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- We might be seeing it all this spring--even the Easter ceremonies at Seville, he urged, exaggerating his demands in the hope of a larger concession. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Why is it not better worth such tears, and such tenderly exaggerating faith? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The old man evidently thought that his son was exaggerating in his description of one or two trivial feats which I had performed. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- He has no sufficient idea of the effect of literature on the formation of the mind, and greatly exaggerates that of mathematics. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Plato in a hyperbolical and serio-comic vein exaggerates the follies of democracy which he also sees reflected in social life. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- There is nothing to explain, said Crispin, with a yawn; you know the way Caliphronas exaggerates. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Madame Olenska exaggerates; I simply gave her a legal opinion, as she asked me to. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- As Ginevra speaks, they do not carry with them the sound of unmixed truth: I believe she exaggerates--perhaps invents--but I want to know how far. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
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