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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Her hairstyle exaggerates the roundness of her face.
  她的发型使得她的脸显得更圆了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He exaggerates the superficiality of their current affairs programmes.
  他夸大其词地说他们的时事节目过于肤浅。
• 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。
• Since a high proportion of UK-based multinationals are owned by foreign portfolio investors, this exaggerates the UK's net investment income.
  由于很大一部分总部位于英国的跨国企业都是由外国组合投资者拥有的，所以这夸大了英国的净投资收入。