exaggerates

英 [ɪɡˈzædʒəreɪts]

美 [ɪɡˈzædʒəreɪts]

v.  夸张; 夸大; 言过其实
exaggerate的第三人称单数

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

• If a company exaggerates the functions of its products in television advertisements, consumers, after personally using the product, will lose trust in the company and even file lawsuits against it.
  如果公司在电视广告中夸大了其产品的功能，消费者在使用后，将对公司失去信任甚至提起起诉。
• He exaggerates the superficiality of their current affairs programmes.
  他夸大其词地说他们的时事节目过于肤浅。
• Her hairstyle exaggerates the roundness of her face.
  她的发型使得她的脸显得更圆了。
• Since a high proportion of UK-based multinationals are owned by foreign portfolio investors, this exaggerates the UK's net investment income.
  由于很大一部分总部位于英国的跨国企业都是由外国组合投资者拥有的，所以这夸大了英国的净投资收入。
• That dress exaggerates her height.
  她穿那件连衣裙显得高了。
• A friend exaggerates a man's virtue, and enemy his crimes.
  朋友褒扬你的美德，敌人夸大你的过错。
• Eg. he always exaggerates to make his stories more amusing.
  他总爱添枝加叶，把故事讲得更有趣。
• Therefore, it exaggerates to affirm or negate that all paintings can reflect spirit of times.
  因此，肯定或否定一切绘画都能表现时代精神，都是言之过甚。
• Impossible is the western culture of simple supplement retouching, should not narrowly defined as exaggerates the banner of nationalism.
  不可能是西方文化的简单补充润饰，不应该狭窄地定义为宣扬民族主义的旗号。
• Some might respond that such a critique exaggerates the hardness of hard science and the softness of economics.
  一些人可能回应称，此类评判夸大了硬科学的硬度和经济学的软性。