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

• A local tradition, which evidently exaggerates matters, says that two thousand horses and fifteen hundred men were buried in the hollow road of Ohain.
  当地有一种传说，当然言过其实，说在奥安的那条凹路里坑了二千匹马和一千五百人。
• That dress exaggerates her height.
  她穿那件连衣裙显得高了。
• 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。
• Everyone exaggerates the amount they earn and we all tell the odd fib about our jobs.
  每个人都会夸大自己的吸金能力，也多多少少会撒几个关于自己工作的小谎。
• He always exaggerates when he tells about things he has done.
  他讲自己所做的事时，总是夸大。
• Hunter said Betty always exaggerates his weaknesses, the statement might start a quarrel between them.
  亨特说贝蒂老是夸大他的缺点，这话很可能会引起一场争吵。
• The artist purposefully exaggerates the student's body to emphasize his prodigality, while dwarfing his parents to indicate their hardship.
  作画者故意夸张了学生的身体小从而强调了他的铺张生活，同时缩小了他父母的身体小来体现他们的辛苦。
• Many Japanese have long asserted that China over-simplifies and exaggerates the level of Japanese wartime brutality, while China sees such criticism as an attempt to whitewash war crimes.
  长期以来，许多日本人宣称，中国过分简化并夸大了日本在战时的野蛮行为，而中国将这种批评视为企图掩饰战争罪行。
• He exaggerates for effect.
  为了吸引眼球，他有些夸大其辞。
• Furthermore, the dialogue exaggerates the situation between the English and Scottish in the13th century.
  此外，电影对白夸大了13世纪英格兰和苏格兰之间的局势。