英语单词 | understatement |
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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.
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.
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来源 | 2002.1 |
Tags: 单词::2002
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