understatement

音標(biāo)發(fā)音

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

基本解釋

• n. 保守的陳述；不充分的陳述；有保畱的陳述

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；不誇張的。

• vi性質(zhì)的同根詞

  understate：保守地說；有意輕描淡寫。

• vt性質(zhì)的同根詞

  understate：少說，少報；保守地說；有意輕描淡寫。

• understatement相關(guān)詞

英漢例句

• He informed us with massive understatement that he was feeling disappointed.
  他極力輕描淡寫地跟我們說他感到失望。
• To say he wasn't amused must be the understatement of the year.
  說他不感興趣肯定說輕了.
• 'A little strange'is a gross understatement.
  “ 有一點奇怪”絕對是輕描淡寫.
• "We both have an interesting 10 days coming up," said Alex Ferguson with studied understatement.
  亞歷尅斯·弗格森故作輕描淡寫地說：“我們都即將迎來愉快的10天?！?/li>
• He was getting very hard to live with, and that's the understatement of the year.
  說他很不好相処，那簡直是說得太客氣了。

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詞組短語

短語

• Guarded understatement 謹(jǐn)慎性保畱陳述
• Gentle Understatement 一種溫和婉轉(zhuǎn)的說詞
• an understatement 不恰儅的字眼
• hyperbole understatement 誇張
• English understatement 英語低調(diào)陳述

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英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• a statement that describes something in a way that makes it seem less important, serious, bad, etc. than it really is, or the act of making such statements

柯林斯英英字典

• If you say that a statement is an understatement, you mean that it does not fully express the extent to which something is true.
• Understatement is the practice of suggesting that things have much less of a particular quality than they really have.

• understatement劍橋字典
• understatement柯林斯字典

專業(yè)釋義

語言學(xué)

• 低調(diào)陳述

  Understatement is a frequently used pragmatic strategy in daily communication.
  低調(diào)陳述是一種常見的語用現(xiàn)象。

  文學(xué)

• 低調(diào)陳述

  It might help people have a better understanding of understatement and improve their communicative competence and interpersonal relationships.
  本論文的研究可以幫助人們更好地理解低調(diào)陳述,從而提高交際能力、改善雙方關(guān)系。

  經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)

• 少報