一、詳細(xì)釋義：


v.

使擴(kuò)大；使增加 [T]


例句：

He was fatally driven to exaggerate his discontentment.

這使他的不快無限膨脹。


例句：

Those shoes exaggerate the size of his feet.

那雙鞋使他的雙腳顯得過大。


夸大，夸張 [I,T]


例句：

If you exaggerate, people will no longer believe you.

如果你說話虛夸，人們便不會相信你了。


例句：

Bob has a tendency to exaggerate things.

鮑勃有愛夸張的傾向。


二、詞義辨析：


exaggerate,magnify

這兩個動詞均有“夸大，夸張”之意。 exaggerate指有意或無意地夸張或夸大，含強(qiáng)烈“過火”意味。 magnify本義為“放大或擴(kuò)大”，引申用與exaggerate含義類似，但不如exaggerate常用。


三、參考例句：


It is impossible to exaggerate its importance.

無論怎樣強(qiáng)調(diào)它的重要性也不過分。


You think I exaggerate about the dependence?

你會以為我說依賴是過于夸張？


Critics exaggerate the extent of the problem.

批評者夸大了問題的嚴(yán)重性。


Bob has a tendency to exaggerate things.

鮑勃有愛夸張的傾向。


These figures exaggerate the loss of competitiveness.

這些數(shù)字夸大了競爭力的下降。


Bob has a tendency to?exaggerate?things.

鮑勃有愛夸張的傾向。


Those shoes exaggerate the size of his feet.

那雙鞋使他的雙腳顯得過大。


If you always exaggerate, people will no longer believe you.

如果你老是言過其實(shí)，人們就不會相信你了。


But critics exaggerate the extent of the problem.

但批評者夸大了問題的嚴(yán)重性。


He was fatally driven to exaggerate his discontentment.

這使他的不快無限膨脹。