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

• 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。
• Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
  趁别人小题大做之前赶快承认错误。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The artist purposefully exaggerates the student's body to emphasize his prodigality, while dwarfing his parents to indicate their hardship.
  作画者故意夸张了学生的身体小从而强调了他的铺张生活，同时缩小了他父母的身体小来体现他们的辛苦。
• 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。
• 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。
• He always exaggerates when he tells about things he has done.
  他讲自己所做的事时，总是夸大。
• People will not believe a man who exaggerates.
  人们不会相信言词过甚的人。