exaggerations

英 [ɪgˌzædʒəˈreɪʃənz]

美 [ɪgˌzædʒəˈreɪʃənz]

n.  夸张; 夸大; 言过其实
exaggeration的复数

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

• Teleision drug ads engage in such blatant deceptions and exaggerations that een the medical journals are starting to condemn the practice.
  电视上的药物广告如此的喧闹欺骗和夸大其词，以至于医疗期刊都开始批评这一行为。
• Inner Mongolia Horqin local folk songs in creative than the often-used, metaphor, exaggerations, parallelism, such as who to approach.
  内蒙古科尔沁地方民歌在创作中常采用比兴、比喻、夸张、排比、拟人化等手法。
• A few are extreme extrapolations and one or two exaggerations from a kernel of truth.
  有一些是极端化的推论，还有来自对事实要点的一些夸张。
• For, understood in their context, such statements are both illuminating and puzzling: they are more like great exaggerations of some truths about law unduly neglected, than cool definitions.
  因为，从他们所处的情境中来理解，上述陈述便既具有启发性，又颇令人困惑：与其说它们是冰冷的定义，毋宁说是对法律被过于忽视之真相的热情地放大。
• The exact truth without any exaggerations or embellishments.
  没有任何夸张或添枝加叶的、精确的真实情况。
• It is less absurd to claim that media exaggerations have deepened the recession, perhaps even caused it.
  认为媒体的夸大之词加剧了经济衰退，甚至引发了衰退，这种说法就不那么荒谬了。
• His story was full of exaggerations.
  他的故事充满了夸张。
• Nu Skin released a statement on Wednesday, before news of the official investigation, saying the article contains inaccuracies and exaggerations and the reporters did not attempt to verify any information with Nu Skin.
  在官方要启动调查的消息传出之前的周三，如新发表声明回应称，《人民日报》的文章含有不准确和夸张的内容，记者没有尝试与如新核实任何信息。
• Meanwhile, doctrinal activists still sing out their contradictions and exaggerations.
  同时，教条的激进分子还在大声嚷嚷着他们的反驳和夸张之词。
• In these and several other respects, there are many inventions and exaggerations
  在这些方面和其他几个方面都存在许多捏造与夸张之处。