exaggerates

英 [ɪɡˈzædʒəreɪts]

美 [ɪɡˈzædʒəreɪts]

v.  夸张; 夸大; 言过其实
exaggerate的第三人称单数

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

• You be carry this too far. He exaggerates, but he does not lie.
  对这件事你做得太过分了！（你言过其实！）他有点言过其实，但并不瞎编。
• I think this argument exaggerates what a non-elected council president can do in the absence of a joint foreign policy.
  我认为，在缺乏共同外交政策的情况下，这一说法夸大了非选举产生的理事会主席的能力。
• If a company exaggerates the functions of its products in television advertisements, consumers, after personally using the product, will lose trust in the company and even file lawsuits against it.
  如果公司在电视广告中夸大了其产品的功能，消费者在使用后，将对公司失去信任甚至提起起诉。
• Some might respond that such a critique exaggerates the hardness of hard science and the softness of economics.
  一些人可能回应称，此类评判夸大了硬科学的硬度和经济学的软性。
• In any case Mr Osborne vastly exaggerates the effect of the UK budget deficit on long term rates.
  无论如何，奥斯本过分夸大了英国预算赤字对长期利率的影响。
• The mass media then exaggerates the problem. It depicts the chosen folk devils as a grave, new, organised threat to the social order.
  接着，大众媒体夸大问题，将其选定的民间恶魔描述为对社会秩序构成严重、新生、有组织的威胁。
• Eg. he always exaggerates to make his stories more amusing.
  他总爱添枝加叶，把故事讲得更有趣。
• Many Japanese have long asserted that China over-simplifies and exaggerates the level of Japanese wartime brutality, while China sees such criticism as an attempt to whitewash war crimes.
  长期以来，许多日本人宣称，中国过分简化并夸大了日本在战时的野蛮行为，而中国将这种批评视为企图掩饰战争罪行。
• 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。
• The artist purposefully exaggerates the student's body to emphasize his prodigality, while dwarfing his parents to indicate their hardship.
  作画者故意夸张了学生的身体小从而强调了他的铺张生活，同时缩小了他父母的身体小来体现他们的辛苦。