exaggerate

英 [ɪɡ'zædʒəreɪt] 美 [ɪɡ'zædʒəreɪt]

• vt. 夸张；夸大；对...言过其实
• vi. 夸张；夸大其词

双解释义

v. (动词)

1. vt. & vi. (使)扩大,(使)增加 (cause to) enlarge or increase
2. vt. & vi. 夸大,夸张 make too large; say or think sth greater than it is; overstate

详尽释义

v. (动词)

1. 夸张，夸大，（对…）言过其实，夸大其词
2. （使）扩大，放大，膨胀
3. 使过大
4. 使增大，增加
5. 大惊小怪
6. 看得太严重了
7. 估计得过于
8. 使逾常
9. 过分强调
10. 加强

英英释义

Verb:

1. to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth;

   "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
   

2. do something to an excessive degree;

   "He overdid it last night when he did 100 pushups"
   

例句

用作及物动词 (vt.)

1. Don't exaggerate the parallelism between the two cases.
   不要夸大那两件事的相似性。
2. The seriousness of the situation has been much exaggerated by the press.
   形势的严重性被报纸夸大了。
3. He tends to exaggerate the difficulties.
   他往往夸大困难。
4. 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。
5. When they talk about something, they tend to exaggerate it.
   当他们谈论一件事情时，他们总喜欢夸大其词。

用作不及物动词 (vi.)

1. If you exaggerate, you will sound fantastically American.
   如果你发音夸张听起来会特别有美国味。
2. During the interview, some interviewees tend to exaggerate.
   面试时,有些面试者会有夸大的倾向。

常见句型

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词

S+～(+A)

1. She always exaggerates when she tells something she's done.
   每当她谈及自己所做的事时,她总是言过其实。
2. People will not believe a man who always exaggerates.
   人们不会相信老是夸大的人。
3. He always exaggerates to make his stories more amusing.
   他总是用夸张的手法使他的故事更有趣。

用作及物动词

S+～+ n./pron.

1. That dress exaggerates her height.
   穿那件衣服使她显得高些了。
2. Those shoes exaggerated the size of his feet.
   那双鞋使他的脚显得特别大。
3. Her hair style exaggerates the roundness of her face.
   她的发型使得她的脸显得更圆了。
4. The artist exaggerated parts of the drawing to make them clearer.
   画家把图画的某些部分扩大使其更加清晰。
5. He exaggerated the difficulties.
   他夸大了困难。
6. He exaggerated the dangers of the trip in order to frighten them into not going.
   他夸张了旅行的危险,目的是恫吓他们使他们不敢去。
7. The little girl tried to exaggerate her illness.
   这个小女孩试图夸大自己的病情。
8. The old fisherman exaggerated the size of his catch.
   这个老渔夫夸大了自己所捕的鱼的大小。
9. We can't exaggerate his scientific attainment.
   我们无法估量他在科学上的造诣。
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10. The importance of this matter has been exaggerated.
    这件事的重要性被夸大了。
11. Its use can't be exaggerated.
    它的用途怎么夸张也不过分。

经典引文

• It was..praiseworthy in Bishop Jovius to exaggerate the praises of..his Benefactors.

  出自： Monmouth

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

• exaggerate one's achievements 夸大某人的成就
• exaggerate the difficulties 夸大困难
• exaggerate the faults 夸大错误

～+副词

• exaggerate a little 夸大一点
• exaggerate somewhat 有些言过其实
• exaggerate absurdly 荒谬地夸大
• exaggerate crudely〔greatly〕 过分夸张
• exaggerate grossly 极其夸张
• exaggerate incredibly 夸张得难以置信
• exaggerate purposely 故意夸大

词语用法

v. (动词)

1. exaggerate的基本意思是“超越事实”,可指“(使…)显得大”,也指“扩大”,尤指“过分夸大”。
2. exaggerate既可用作不及物动词,也可用作及物动词。作“(使…)显得大”“扩大”解时,常接具体名词; 作“夸大，夸张”解时,常接抽象名词。
3. exaggerate与cannot连用意为“再夸大也不过分”。
4. exaggerate可用于被动结构。

词义辨析

v. (动词)

exaggerate, magnify

• 这组词都有“夸大,夸张”的意思。它们的区别是:
• exaggerate多指“夸大”,带有强烈的“过火”意味,后常接较抽象的名词; magnify常表示“扩大”“放大”,后接意义比较具体的名词。试比较以下两个句子:
• He often exaggerates the facts.
• 他老是夸大事实。
• We magnify objects with a microscope.
• 我们用显微镜来放大物体。

近反义词

【近义词】

• overstate 夸大的叙述
• amplify 扩大
• embellish 美化、装饰或修饰...
• embroider 刺绣
• magnify 放大
• stretch 伸展
• overdo 做或表现得过分...
• enlarge 扩大
• overstress 过分强调
• make a mountain out of a molehill 小题大作
• inflate 使膨胀
• lay on 安装
• aggrandize 增加
• strengthen 加强
• lie 躺下
• hyperbolize 运用夸张法...
• overdraw 透支
• hyperbolise <主英> v.=hype...