- 看过 understatement 的人也看了 :
- distortion
- litotes
- restraint
- underestimate
understatement 的定义
- the act or an instance of understating, or representing in a weak or restrained way that is not borne out by the facts: The journalist wrote that the earthquake had caused some damage. This turned out to be a massive understatement of the devastation.
understatement 近义词
restrained statement
understatement 的近义词 4 个
understatement 的反义词 2 个
更多understatement例句
- To say I’m disappointed, frustrated are all understatements.
- It is not an understatement to say that this is the most anticipated book release of the season—if not the year.
- To call Nia Long an ageless beauty would be an understatement.
- To say that this has been a stressful year is a gross understatement.
- To say that the travel industry has been hit hard by the pandemic is an understatement.
- That may sound like the understatement of the century, and maybe it is.
- And considering his massive music-industry thumb print, that “you oughta know” Jack Antonoff is an understatement.
- To say that the past few years have been a watershed period of improvement for LGBT America is an understatement.
- To say that James Gunn is ecstatic is a vast understatement.
- It was a massive understatement when Frieden said, “This is a very delicate area, so to speak.”
- Howells realized the unwisdom and weakness of dogmatic insistence, and the strength of understatement.
- This is the typical understatement of Old English rhetoric: it can only point to deliberate treachery on the part of the Eotens.
- There is more danger of doing the injustice of understatement in commemorating a character so rounded and symmetrical.
- You can say I have gone out on a trial run, which won't be a lie, only an understatement.
- Her every manner convinced you comments as such were guilty of the grossest understatement.