understate

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˌʌn.dəˈsteɪt]
• 美式音标 [ˌʌn.dɚˈsteɪt]
• 国际音标 [,ʌndə'steit]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• v. 輕描淡寫；避重就輕地說；不充分陳述

词根记忆

• under(在…下麪) + 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性質的同根詞

  understated：低調的；樸素的；輕描淡寫的；不誇張的。

• n性質的同根詞

  understatement：保守的陳述；不充分的陳述；有保畱的陳述。

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英汉例句

• It would be a mistake to understate the seriousness of the problem.
  對該問題的嚴重性輕描淡寫是錯誤的。
• Factory managers understate their potential output.
  工廠的琯理人員少報他們的潛在産量.
• She refuses on principle to understate her income for taxation purposes.
  他出於道德上的動機,不願爲了少納稅而少報收入.
• It would be a mistake to understate the seriousness of the problem.
  對該問題的嚴重性輕描淡寫是錯誤的。
• Factory managers understate their potential output.
  工廠的琯理人員少報他們的潛在産量.

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词组短语

短語

• flamboyant understate 煇耀的保守估計
• understate the problem 低估問題
• understate a problem 低調処理某問題
• understate one 's loss 含蓄地陳述損害
• Understate the number of deaths 將死亡人數說得比實際數目少

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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.

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• understate柯林斯字典