understate

音標(biāo)發(fā)音

• 英式音標(biāo) [??n.d??ste?t]
• 美式音標(biāo) [??n.d??ste?t]
• 國際音標(biāo) [,?nd?'steit]
• 英式發(fā)音
• 美式發(fā)音

基本解釋

• v. 輕描淡寫；避重就輕地說；不充分陳述

詞根記憶

• under(在…下面) + 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(zhì)的同根詞

  understated：低調(diào)的；樸素的；輕描淡寫的；不夸張的。

• n性質(zhì)的同根詞

  understatement：保守的陳述；不充分的陳述；有保留的陳述。

• understate相關(guān)詞

英漢例句

• It would be a mistake to understate the seriousness of the problem.
  對(duì)該問題的嚴(yán)重性輕描淡寫是錯(cuò)誤的。
• Factory managers understate their potential output.
  工廠的管理人員少報(bào)他們的潛在產(chǎn)量.
• She refuses on principle to understate her income for taxation purposes.
  他出于道德上的動(dòng)機(jī),不愿為了少納稅而少報(bào)收入.
• It would be a mistake to understate the seriousness of the problem.
  對(duì)該問題的嚴(yán)重性輕描淡寫是錯(cuò)誤的。
• Factory managers understate their potential output.
  工廠的管理人員少報(bào)他們的潛在產(chǎn)量.

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詞組短語

短語

• flamboyant understate 輝耀的保守估計(jì)
• understate the problem 低估問題
• understate a problem 低調(diào)處理某問題
• understate one 's loss 含蓄地陳述損害
• Understate the number of deaths 將死亡人數(shù)說得比實(shí)際數(shù)目少

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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.

• understate劍橋字典
• understate柯林斯字典