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understate

/uhn-der-steyt/US // ˌʌn dərˈsteɪt //UK // (ˌʌndəˈsteɪt) //

低调,低调的,低调处理,低调行事

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    un·der·stat·ed, un·der·stat·ing.

    • : to state or represent less strongly or strikingly than the facts would bear out; set forth in restrained, moderate, or weak terms: The casualty lists understate the extent of the disaster.

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Examples

  • It’s hard to understate the buzz around Clubhouse, the social media startup that reached a reported $100 million valuation when it had just 1,500 users.

  • “You can’t understate that experience as a player,” he said.

  • Averaging the dates of multiple layers provides a reasonable, possibly understated minimum age estimate for the underlying art, the researchers contend.

  • For instance, investigators understated Azevedo’s qualifications.

  • As we head into 2021, the importance of SEO as part of a comprehensive marketing strategy cannot be understated.

  • I don't want to understate either, however; these are the major chronic diseases we should be expecting Medicaid to help.

  • To say she was disturbed by the results would be to understate her reaction.

  • On Klaidman's telling ... wow, did those conservatives understate the case.

  • Yet such tempered remarks may understate the significance of the challenge awaiting Krueger.

  • I do not understate the complexity and sensitivity of achieving such a global agreement.

  • Jimmy yelled with joy, and thanked the printer for his intelligent misreading of understate. '

  • We may be sure, too, that her informant did not understate the personal disadvantages of Sir Abraham Lumley.

  • The Professor did not understate the case when he had intimated that he was somewhat out of practice at equestrian exercises.

  • But whilst he certainly did not understate the income, there is reason for thinking he greatly exaggerated it.

  • On the contrary, there were considerations that would dispose him to understate his income to those correspondents.