exaggerate
v. 夸张,夸大
If you exaggerate, you indicate that something is, for example, worse or more important than it really is.
He thinks I'm exaggerating...
他觉得我在夸大其词。
Don't exaggerate...
别夸张。
If something exaggerates a situation, quality, or feature, it makes the situation, quality, or feature appear greater, more obvious, or more important than it really is.
These figures exaggerate the loss of competitiveness...
这些数字夸大了竞争力的丧失。
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。
1. to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth;
2. do something to an excessive degree;
exaggerate, magnify
这两个动词均有"夸大,夸张"之意。
We should neither exaggerate nor ignore the differences.
虽然我们不能夸大这些不同,但是我们也不能忽视它们的存在.
It is impossible to exaggerate the fact.
无论怎样强调这事实,也不嫌过份.
In many ways, our social statistics exaggerate the degree of hardship.
我们的社会统计数字在许多方面夸大了困难的程度.
And if you think I exaggerate, try it.
如果你认为我夸大其词, 那麽不妨打开电视试试.
Perhaps they exaggerate his illness.
也许他们把他的病情夸大了吧.