詞彙精選：exaggerate的用法和辨析

一、詳細釋義：

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v.

使擴大；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。

誇大，誇張 [I,T]

例句：

If you exaggerate, people will no longer believe you.

如果你說話虛誇，人們便不會相信你了。

例句：

Bob has a tendency to exaggerate things.

鮑勃有愛誇張的傾向。

二、詞義辨析：

exaggerate,magnify

這兩個動詞均有“誇大，誇張”之意。exaggerate指有意或無意地誇張或誇大，含強烈“過火”意味。magnify本義爲“放大或擴大”，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.

無論怎樣強調它的重要性也不過分。

You think I exaggerate about the dependence?

你會以爲我說依賴是過於誇張？

Critics exaggerate the extent of the problem.

批評者誇大了問題的嚴重性。

Bob has a tendency to exaggerate things.

鮑勃有愛誇張的傾向。

These figures exaggerate the loss of competitiveness.

這些數字誇大了競爭力的下降。

Bob has a tendency to exaggerate things.

鮑勃有愛誇張的傾向。

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，人們就不會相信你了。

But critics exaggerate the extent of the problem.

但批評者誇大了問題的嚴重性。

He was fatally driven to exaggerate his discontentment.

這使他的不快無限膨脹。