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exaggerate

/ɛɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/ 动词 B2

中文: 夸大、夸张

  1. To overstate, to describe more than the fact. · I've told you a billion times not to exaggerate!· He said he’d slept with hundreds of girls, but I know he’s exaggerating. The real number is about ten.

He/she/it exaggerates · 过去式 exaggerated · 过去分词 exaggerated · -ing形式 exaggerating

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My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasions for teasing and quarrelling with you as often as may be; and I shall begin directly, by asking you what made you so unwilling to come to the point at last?
《Pride and Prejudice》,第362页 · B2
The reasoning was close and intense, but the deductions appeared to me to be far-fetched and exaggerated.
《A Study in Scarlet》,第17页 · B2
“Its importance can hardly be exaggerated.
《Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans》,第8页 · B2
Speaking of my old friend and biographer, I would take this opportunity to remark that if I burden myself with a companion in my various little inquiries it is not done out of sentiment or caprice, but it is that Watson has some remarkable characteristics of his own, to which in his modesty he has given small attention amid his exaggerated estimates of my own performances.
《The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes》,第1页 · B2

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