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understatement n.轻描淡写；有保留地陈述 (1) 说这部影片不好是比较温和的说法。(2) 上文的评价其实很保守。 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."

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英 ['ʌndəsteɪtmənt] 美 ['ʌndərsteɪtmənt] (1) To say the film is bad is an understatement.(2) The description above is quite an understatement. 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. 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	英 ['ʌndəsteɪtmənt] 美 ['ʌndərsteɪtmənt]
中文释义	n.轻描淡写；有保留地陈述
英语例句	(1) To say the film is bad is an understatement. (2) The description above is quite an understatement.
中文例句	(1) 说这部影片不好是比较温和的说法。 (2) 上文的评价其实很保守。
vocabulary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.
vocabulary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."
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

Understatement Make 英 ʌndəsteɪtmənt] 美 ʌndərsteɪtmənt N.轻描淡写；有保留地陈述 Film Bad