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understatement

/uhn-der-steyt-muhnt, uhn-der-steyt-/US // ˌʌn dərˈsteɪt mənt, ˈʌn dərˌsteɪt- //UK // (ˌʌndəˈsteɪtmənt) //

低调的说法,低调,轻描淡写,轻描淡写地说

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • 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.