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

• 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。
• 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。
• A friend exaggerates a man's virtue, and enemy his crimes.
  朋友褒扬你的美德，敌人夸大你的过错。
• Therefore, it exaggerates to affirm or negate that all paintings can reflect spirit of times.
  因此，肯定或否定一切绘画都能表现时代精神，都是言之过甚。
• 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。
• Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
  趁别人小题大做之前赶快承认错误。
• A local tradition, which evidently exaggerates matters, says that two thousand horses and fifteen hundred men were buried in the hollow road of Ohain.
  当地有一种传说，当然言过其实，说在奥安的那条凹路里坑了二千匹马和一千五百人。
• But the bilateral prism through which Washington sees the issue gives a distorted picture of the reasons for the renminbi's strengthening, say analysts, and also exaggerates the real changes in the currency's value.
  但分析人士称，华盛顿以双边角度看待这一问题，不仅使人民币不断升值的原因有所扭曲，并且夸大了人民币币值的真正变化。
• Furthermore, the dialogue exaggerates the situation between the English and Scottish in the13th century.
  此外，电影对白夸大了13世纪英格兰和苏格兰之间的局势。
• 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。