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

• It is less absurd to claim that media exaggerations have deepened the recession, perhaps even caused it.
  认为媒体的夸大之词加剧了经济衰退，甚至引发了衰退，这种说法就不那么荒谬了。
• Maybe they are exaggerations and I think to some degree they are but it's revealing that both of these very serious readers of Machiavelli took him to be an apostle of freedom.
  也许他们过于夸张了，而且我认为，某种程度上他们确实是，但具有启迪意义的是，这两个严肃的马基雅维利的读者，都把他看作自由的传道者。
• His story was full of exaggerations.
  他的故事充满了夸张。
• 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。
• 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。
• In our view, it is generally accepted that pan-democratic Legco members have gone too far, but the two Tsangs'comments on the affair seem exaggerations.
  我们认为，此事泛民议员「玩大咗」，已属定论，而「双曾」对此事的回应，也有「言过其实」之嫌。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。