exaggerate
exaggerate 英 [ɪgˈzædʒəreɪt] 美 [ɪgˈzædʒəreɪt]
vt. 使扩大；使增大 vi. 夸大；夸张
进行时:exaggerating 过去式:exaggerated 过去分词:exaggerated 第三人称单数:exaggerates 名词复数:exaggerates
- When you exaggerate you stretch the truth. Fishermen tend to exaggerate the size of their fish. And children tend to exaggerate the seriousness of their cuts in order to get cute Band-Aids.
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- vt. 使扩大；使增大
- vi. 夸大；夸张
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1. The hotel was really filthy and I'm not exaggerating.
我不是夸张，这旅店真的很脏。
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2. He tends to exaggerate the difficulties.
他往往夸大困难。
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3. Demand for the product has been greatly exaggerated.
对这项产品的需求给过分夸大了。
- exaggerate (v.) 1530s, "to pile up, accumulate," from Latin exaggeratus, past participle of exaggerare "heighten, amplify, magnify," literally "to heap, pile, load, fill," from ex, here probably "thoroughly" (see ex-), + aggerare "heap up, accumulate," figuratively "amplify, magnify," from agger (genitive aggeris) "heap," from aggerere "bring together, carry toward," from assimilated form of ad "to, toward" (see ad-) + gerere "carry" (see gest). Sense of "overstate" first recorded in English 1560s. Related: Exaggerated; exaggerating.
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