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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