exaggerate
v. 誇張,誇大
If you exaggerate, you indicate that something is, for example, worse or more important than it really is.
He thinks I'm exaggerating...
他覺得我在誇大其詞。
Don't exaggerate...
別誇張。
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...
這些數字誇大了競爭力的喪失。
The dress exaggerates her wasp waist and enlarges her bosom.
那件連衣裙凸顯了她的蜂腰,也讓她的胸部看起來更豐滿。
1. to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth;
2. do something to an excessive degree;
exaggerate, magnify
這兩個動詞均有"誇大,誇張"之意。
We should neither exaggerate nor ignore the differences.
雖然我們不能誇大這些不同,但是我們也不能忽視它們的存在.
It is impossible to exaggerate the fact.
無論怎樣強調這事實,也不嫌過份.
In many ways, our social statistics exaggerate the degree of hardship.
我們的社會統計數字在許多方面誇大了困難的程度.
And if you think I exaggerate, try it.
如果你認為我誇大其詞, 那麼不妨開啟電視試試.
Perhaps they exaggerate his illness.
也許他們把他的病情誇大了吧.