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exaggerate
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🇺🇸 /ɪɡzˈædʒɚˌeɪt/
exaggerate 主要表示“夸大、言过其实”,也可作少见形容词,表示“夸张的、过分渲染的”。
💡 记忆钩子
把一小堆东西越堆越高:原本的事实被“堆大”了,就是夸大;由此也可形容说法或表达本身显得过分渲染。
📝 学习建议
- 先掌握动词用法;形容词用法很少见,阅读中遇到时再根据语境理解即可。
- 不要把它简单理解成“强调”;它通常暗含超出事实程度、说得过头的意思。
📖 中文释义
adj
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rare 夸张的;过分渲染的📖 形容表达或情绪被“堆高”到不自然、超过正常程度,意思接近“夸张的”或“言过其实的”。💡 常见模式是放在名词前修饰某种说法或表现。这个用法在现代英语里很少见,不能像普通形容词那样随意使用;通常改用更常见的相关形容词会更自然。The story was too exaggerate to be believable.这个故事夸张得让人难以相信。
more exaggerate
comparative
most exaggerate
superlative
verb
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core 夸大;言过其实📖 把事实像越堆越高一样说得超过实际程度,例如把数量、困难或经历描述得更大、更严重。这不一定是故意撒谎,但会让信息失真。💡 常见模式是“夸大某事”或“不要夸大”;也可以单独使用,表示说话说过头了。它通常是不及物或及物都能用的动词,但直接接被夸大的内容时要注意宾语清楚;不要把它当作中性的“强调”来使用。Don't exaggerate the problem; we can fix it this afternoon.别把问题说得太严重;我们今天下午就能解决。He tends to exaggerate when he tells stories.他讲故事时往往会夸大其词。
exaggerates
present,singular,third-person
exaggerating
participle,present
exaggerated
participle,past
exaggerated
past
📘 英文释义 (WordNet)
共 2 组
to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
同义词集:
overstate
exaggerate
overdraw
hyperbolize
hyperbolise
magnify
amplify
tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery
反义: downplay, minimise, minimize, understate
上位: misinform, mislead
下位: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow, blow up, bluster, boast, brag, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, gas, gasconade, lard, pad, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt
do something to an excessive degree
同义词集:
overdo
exaggerate
He overdid it last night when he did 100 pushups
上位: do, make
🌳 词源
源自拉丁语,词源本义与“堆高、增大”有关,后来发展为“夸大”。
Borrowed from Latin exaggerātus, perfect passive participle of exaggerō (“to heap up, increase, enlarge, magnify, amplify, exaggerate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ex- (“out, up”) + aggerō, aggerāre (“to heap up”), from agger (“a pile, heap, mound, dike, mole, pier, etc.”), from aggerō, aggerere (“to bear, carry to (some place), bring together”), from ad- (“to, toward”) + gerō (“to carry”).
🔄 变式
exaggerated
past
exaggerates
present
exaggerating
present
more exaggerate
compar
most exaggerate
superl
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