exaggerations

英 [ɪgˌzædʒəˈreɪʃənz]

美 [ɪgˌzædʒəˈreɪʃənz]

n.  夸张; 夸大; 言过其实
exaggeration的复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 夸大;夸张
  If youexaggerate, you indicate that something is, for example, worse or more important than it really is.
  1. He thinks I'm exaggerating...
     他觉得我在夸大其词。
  2. Don't exaggerate...
     别夸张。
  3. Sheila admitted that she did sometimes exaggerate the demands of her job.
     希拉承认自己有时候确实夸大了工作的难度。
• VERB 突出;夸大
  If somethingexaggeratesa situation, quality, or feature, it makes the situation, quality, or feature appear greater, more obvious, or more important than it really is.
  1. These figures exaggerate the loss of competitiveness...
     这些数字夸大了竞争力的丧失。
  2. The dress exaggerates her wasp waist and enlarges her bosom.
     那件连衣裙凸显了她的蜂腰，也让她的胸部看起来更丰满。

双语例句

• Meanwhile, doctrinal activists still sing out their contradictions and exaggerations.
  同时，教条的激进分子还在大声嚷嚷着他们的反驳和夸张之词。
• Far-left French industry minister Arnaud montebourg said the economist was known for exaggerations and French bashing.
  法国极左派人士工业部长阿尔诺蒙特布尔表示，《经济学人》以夸大事实和抨击法国而闻名。
• In these and several other respects, there are many inventions and exaggerations
  在这些方面和其他几个方面都存在许多捏造与夸张之处。
• Illegal activities, intimate details, and resume exaggerations, not so much.
  但是，非法活动、亲密细节，还有夸大事实，这些就不要多说了。
• This is a breed that has no gross or incapacitating exaggerations and therefore there is no inherent reason for lack of balance or unsound movement.
  这个品种没有任何粗重或无能夸张的地方，所以他的步态没有理由显得不匀称或不健全。
• The exact truth without any exaggerations or embellishments.
  没有任何夸张或添枝加叶的、精确的真实情况。
• These delusions and exaggerations cannot be explained away as a product of incomplete or incorrect information.
  这些错觉和夸张不能仅仅作为不充分的，不准确的信息造成的。
• For, understood in their context, such statements are both illuminating and puzzling: they are more like great exaggerations of some truths about law unduly neglected, than cool definitions.
  因为，从他们所处的情境中来理解，上述陈述便既具有启发性，又颇令人困惑：与其说它们是冰冷的定义，毋宁说是对法律被过于忽视之真相的热情地放大。
• In our view, it is generally accepted that pan-democratic Legco members have gone too far, but the two Tsangs'comments on the affair seem exaggerations.
  我们认为，此事泛民议员「玩大咗」，已属定论，而「双曾」对此事的回应，也有「言过其实」之嫌。
• A few are extreme extrapolations and one or two exaggerations from a kernel of truth.
  有一些是极端化的推论，还有来自对事实要点的一些夸张。