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

• 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。
• That dress exaggerates her height.
  她穿那件连衣裙显得高了。
• He always exaggerates when he tells about things he has done.
  他讲自己所做的事时，总是夸大。
• 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。
• 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。
• The shortage of water resource exaggerates the pollution of water body.
  水资源短缺与水体污染并存。
• To a certain extent, this value judgment exaggerates the role of charters and the opposition between commerce and feudalism.
  这种价值判断在一定程度上夸大了特许状的作用，也夸大了商业和封建制度的对立性。
• 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。
• 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。