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understatement n.保守的陈述,掩饰 An understatement can be just the thing to make someone feel better. For example, if you are a terrible dancer and everyone seems to be pointing and laughing at you, your friend might say your style is unique. She's not lying, but she is making sad truth easier to deal with. Understatement can also be used humorously — if you have a really difficult, scary experience, you might say, "Well, that was interesting." ★☆☆☆☆ 2002.1

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[ʌndə'steitmənt] You make an understatement when you say a lot less than you could, "We didn't do so well," when your team loses 56 to 0. That's quite an understatement. Search for exaggeration and understatements. Look at your talk and pick out a few words or sentences which you can turn about and inject with humor. 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]不充分如实的陈述；轻描淡写的说明 If you say that a statement is an understatement, you mean that it does not fully express the extent to which something is true. To say I'm disappointed is an understatement...说我失望那是说得太轻了。He was getting very hard to live with, and that's the understatement of the year.说他很不好相处，那简直是说得太客气了。2[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]轻描淡写；重事轻说；淡化 Understatement is the practice of suggesting that things have much less of a particular quality than they really have. He informed us with massive understatement that he was feeling disappointed.他极力轻描淡写地跟我们说他感到失望。...typical British understatement.典型的英国式轻描淡写

英语单词	understatement
英美音标	[ʌndə'steitmənt]
中文释义	n.保守的陈述,掩饰
vocab简明	You make an understatement when you say a lot less than you could, "We didn't do so well," when your team loses 56 to 0. That's quite an understatement.
vocab扩展	An understatement can be just the thing to make someone feel better. For example, if you are a terrible dancer and everyone seems to be pointing and laughing at you, your friend might say your style is unique. She's not lying, but she is making sad truth easier to deal with. Understatement can also be used humorously — if you have a really difficult, scary experience, you might say, "Well, that was interesting."
真题原句	Search for exaggeration and understatements. Look at your talk and pick out a few words or sentences which you can turn about and inject with humor.
柯林斯星级	★☆☆☆☆
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]不充分如实的陈述；轻描淡写的说明 If you say that a statement is an understatement, you mean that it does not fully express the extent to which something is true. To say I'm disappointed is an understatement... 说我失望那是说得太轻了。 He was getting very hard to live with, and that's the understatement of the year. 说他很不好相处，那简直是说得太客气了。 2 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]轻描淡写；重事轻说；淡化 Understatement is the practice of suggesting that things have much less of a particular quality than they really have. He informed us with massive understatement that he was feeling disappointed. 他极力轻描淡写地跟我们说他感到失望。 ...typical British understatement. 典型的英国式轻描淡写
来源	2002.1

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