overstates

英 [ˌəʊvəˈsteɪts]

美 [ˌoʊvərˈsteɪts]

v.  夸大; 夸张; 言过其实
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柯林斯词典

• VERB 夸大；对…言过其实
  If you say that someoneis overstatingsomething, you mean they are describing it in a way that makes it seem more important or serious than it really is.
  1. The authors no doubt overstated their case with a view to catching the public's attention...
     这些作者无疑夸大了实情以吸引公众的注意力。
  2. The importance of health education cannot be overstated.
     健康教育的重要性再怎么说都不为过。

双语例句

• Perhaps the parable overstates the risks fully independent countries face when sharing the same currency, but then again, maybe not by so much.
  这则寓言或许夸大了完全独立的国家在使用同一种货币时所面临的风险，但话说回来，就算有所夸大，程度也不会太离谱。
• An applicant, an insured or a beneficiary defrauds insurance money by cooking up the cause of an insured accident or overstates the extent of loss;
  （二）投保人、被保险人或者受益人对发生的保险事故编造虚假的原因或者夸大损失的程度，骗取保险金的；
• But lumping all ownership restrictions into the same category as out-and-out trade protectionism the blocking of cross-border flows of goods and services overstates the problem.
  但是，如果将各种所有权限制等同于彻底的贸易保护主义（阻碍商品及服务跨境流通），那就夸大了这个问题。
• To sum up, I agree with one side of this statement, yet the speaker overstates the comparative significance of individual concerns in terms of education.
  总的来说，文章的破题很有问题，结构也写得不好，每个段落里总有那么点奇怪的地方。语言相当一般，没有任何闪光的句子。
• This overstates the true growth rate because it includes government purchases, but official household surveys suggest that real spending is growing at a still-impressive rate of9%.
  这些夸大了真实的增长，因为它包括了政府销售，但是官方家庭调查表明真实的消费以仍然给人留下深刻印象的9%增长。
• Linguistic relativism overstates its deterministic effect on culture and anthropological studies, in contrast, focus on the cultural diversity.
  语言相对论夸大了语言的强制性，人类学渲染了文化的差异性。
• But even this overstates the economic impact because the agency primarily responsible for public works, the Department of transportation, has spent virtually nothing.
  但由于对公共建设工程负主要责任的美国交通部（departmentoftransportation）实际上分文未动，就连上述说法也夸大了刺激计划对经济的影响。
• But even this overstates the case for leadership.
  但是，即便这样也还夸大了领导力。
• I suspect that this overstates Anthropology: the discipline has been somewhat introverted and has little political power.
  我认为，这高估了人类学：这一学科有些狭隘，几乎没有什么政治影响力。
• Even this dismal figure overstates the case of typical Americans, as the number unable to find work or who have abandoned the search has risen.
  即使是这个令人沮丧的数字，也对一般美国人的处境有所美化，因为无法找到工作或放弃寻找工作的人数也增加了。