to exaggerate

常見例句

We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us!
我們縂是對我們做過的事情的重要性誇大其詞，但是還有多少事情我們還沒有做！
To exaggerate a bit, if New York suddenly disappeared, stock markets could keep functioning, but we would not be able to dress ourselves or find art to put on the wall.
誇張一點兒說，如果紐約突然消失，股市可以照常運作，但我們可能會因此找不到好看的衣服穿或買不到出色的藝術(shù)品裝點牆麪了。
Moreover, the system tends slightly to exaggerate the victory of the winning party.
而且，這種制度似乎有些誇大獲勝黨的勝利。

I don't want to exaggerate this too much but the largest riots in Britain in the eighteenth century are not the riots for political reform at all.
我不想過多地誇張,但十八世紀英國最大的暴亂,完全不是關(guān)於政治改革
耶魯公開課 - 歐洲文明課程節(jié)選
It's not occured to me that we shouldn't think fondly or even sort of exaggerate our past.
我也不認爲,我們應(yīng)該喜歡,或者甚至誇張我們的過去。
麻省理工公開課 - 電影哲學課程節(jié)選

Hyping your company is not just a natural tendency to exaggerate your size and importance.
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The other is to exaggerate the place of world affairs in their own job.
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Sceptics point out that each mistake has tended to exaggerate the extent of climate change.
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