hyperbole 的定义
Rhetoric.
- obvious and intentional exaggeration.
- an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.”
hyperbole 近义词
exaggeration
更多hyperbole例句
- 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.