Exaggeration
[ɪg,zædʒə'reɪʃ(ə)n] or [ɪɡ,zædʒə'reʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of making something more noticeable than usual; 'the dance involved a deliberate exaggeration of his awkwardness'.
(noun.) making to seem more important than it really is.
編輯:齐克--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of heaping or piling up.
(n.) The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement.
(n.) A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.
錄入:雷蒙
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Hyperbole, rant, caricature, extravagant statement, high coloring.
阿尔玛編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Laura was certainly not chargeable with any exaggeration, in writing me word that I should hardly recognise her aunt again when we met. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- And this is God's truth, without one word of suppression or exaggeration, as fifty people, both in this place and out of it, very well know. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- His manner had no air of study or exaggeration. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- If it were any one but me who said so, you might think it exaggeration. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I found my poor girl, there is no exaggeration in the expression, wild with grief and dread. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- When I came to examine the treaty I saw at once that it was of such importance that my uncle had been guilty of no exaggeration in what he had said. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- It is no exaggeration to say that Edison was greeted with the enthusiastic homage of the whole French people. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- It looks like an exaggeration or as if the typesetter had slipped in several extra ciphers by mistake, does it not? 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Yes, I said, and the exaggeration may be set down to you; for you made me utter my fancies. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- There is no word of exaggeration in this. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- In the same spirit of exaggeration she had, on the event of her separation from Raymond, caused it to be entirely neglected. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Perhaps that is a slight exaggeration--we did gloss over a few centuries in the Middle Ages. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- He would reprove you for speaking with exaggeration. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- And if from a speculative angle the Marxian tradition has shaded too heavily the economic facts, it was at least a plausible and practical exaggeration. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Of course this was an exaggeration. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- This last story and many such stories may be lies or distortions or exaggerations. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- His reputation as a scientist, indeed, is smirched by the newspaper exaggerations, and no doubt he will be more careful in future. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The pictures used to seem exaggerations--they seemed too weird and fanciful for reality. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
整理:泰丝