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hyperbole

/hahy-pur-buh-lee/US // haɪˈpɜr bə li //UK // (haɪˈpɜːbəlɪ) //

夸夸其谈,夸大其词,夸夸其谈的说法,夸夸其谈的话语

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Rhetoric.

    • : obvious and intentional exaggeration.
    • : an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.”

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Examples

  • When I say it knows nothing about these countries, I’m really not using hyperbole.

  • They were one hyperbole away from rewriting history to say that the first brick thrown at Stonewall was actually Tom Daley hurling his gold medal.

  • "Everything" is clear hyperbole—the overwhelming majority of things on Earth are not crabs and seemingly have no plans to become them.

  • Microsoft squeezed a lot into a 45-minute online launch presentation filled with hyperbole about making Windows feel like “home” and partly derailed by streaming challenges.

  • In an age exhausted from internet hyperbole, that may actually be a reasonable leap.

  • Exaggeration and hyperbole are constant campaign companions, as useful and expected as hammers and saws on a construction site.

  • Pardon the hyperbole, but there has never been a more aptly titled Good Wife episode than “Hitting the Fan.”

  • Unfortunately, Buchanan is not engaging in idle hyperbole or in simple wishful thinking.

  • Film festival reviews are, as is their wont, often prone to hyperbole.

  • But in a media age of hypercharged hyperbole, there is little room for gray.

  • The hyperbole of bores it is, to bore Congress for a hundred thousand dollars to go to the Pole!

  • Though my long exile had well-nigh cost me the trick of it, I made shift to drop into the stately Indian hyperbole.

  • There is one on the dowager countess of Pembroke (d. 1621), remarkable for its successful use of a somewhat daring hyperbole.

  • Hyperbole is an exaggerated form of statement, and is used to magnify or diminish an object.

  • It was so ever-present with him that there was neither paradox nor hyperbole in his words: I am never alone when I am alone.