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

• Exposing fibs, exaggerations and indiscretions routinely used to undercut or derail political careers is migrating to the corporate world as a new tactic for unhappy shareholder activists to win changes they seek in the executive suite.
  揭露无伤大雅的谎言、牛皮和言行失检，这些通常用于政治攻击的小伎俩现在也开始出现在企业界，愤懑不平的维权股东开始使用这些手段来达到改变公司管理层的目的。
• 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。
• Teleision drug ads engage in such blatant deceptions and exaggerations that een the medical journals are starting to condemn the practice.
  电视上的药物广告如此的喧闹欺骗和夸大其词，以至于医疗期刊都开始批评这一行为。
• Nu Skin released a statement on Wednesday, before news of the official investigation, saying the article contains inaccuracies and exaggerations and the reporters did not attempt to verify any information with Nu Skin.
  在官方要启动调查的消息传出之前的周三，如新发表声明回应称，《人民日报》的文章含有不准确和夸张的内容，记者没有尝试与如新核实任何信息。
• 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。
• Inner Mongolia Horqin local folk songs in creative than the often-used, metaphor, exaggerations, parallelism, such as who to approach.
  内蒙古科尔沁地方民歌在创作中常采用比兴、比喻、夸张、排比、拟人化等手法。
• His story was full of exaggerations.
  他的故事充满了夸张。
• 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。
• 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。
• Liu Xie's criticism of exaggerations has played an unexceptionally significant role in the rhetorical explorations of exaggerations.
  刘勰的夸饰论在夸饰研究史上占有特别重要的地位。