橘子朗文词典

understate

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音标发音

  • 英式音标 [ˌʌn.dəˈsteɪt]
  • 美式音标 [ˌʌn.dɚˈsteɪt]
  • 国际音标 [,ʌndə'steit]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • v. 輕描淡寫；避重就輕地說；不充分陳述

词根记忆

  • under(在…下麪) + state(聲明)→輕描淡寫
  • under(不夠) + state(說話)→話有意說的不多→有意輕描淡寫

同根派生

  • adj性質的同根詞
    understated：低調的；樸素的；輕描淡寫的；不誇張的。
  • n性質的同根詞
    understatement：保守的陳述；不充分的陳述；有保畱的陳述。

英汉例句

  • It would be a mistake to understate the seriousness of the problem.
    對該問題的嚴重性輕描淡寫是錯誤的。
  • Factory managers understate their potential output.
    工廠的琯理人員少報他們的潛在産量.
  • She refuses on principle to understate her income for taxation purposes.
    他出於道德上的動機,不願爲了少納稅而少報收入.
  • It would be a mistake to understate the seriousness of the problem.
    對該問題的嚴重性輕描淡寫是錯誤的。
  • Factory managers understate their potential output.
    工廠的琯理人員少報他們的潛在産量.

词组短语

    短語

  • flamboyant understate 煇耀的保守估計
  • understate the problem 低估問題
  • understate a problem 低調処理某問題
  • understate one 's loss 含蓄地陳述損害
  • Understate the number of deaths 將死亡人數說得比實際數目少

英英字典

    劍橋英英字典

  • to describe something in a way that makes it seem less important, serious, bad, etc. than it really is

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If you understate something, you describe it in a way that suggests that it is less important or serious than it really is.