英 [ˈʌndəsteɪtmənt]
美 [ˈʌndərsteɪtmənt]
n.轻描淡写;有保留地陈述
第三人称复数:understatements
英英释义
词典解释
网络解释
noun
1. a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said
1. 不充分如实的陈述;轻描淡写的说明
If you say that a statement is an understatement, you mean that it does not fully express the extent to which something is true.
understatement的意思
e.g. To say I'm disappointed is an understatement...
说我失望那是说得太轻了。
e.g. He was getting very hard to live with, and that's the understatement of the year.
说他很不好相处,那简直是说得太客气了。
2. 轻描淡写;重事轻说;淡化
Understatement is the practice of suggesting that things have much less of a particular quality than they really have.
e.g. He informed us with massive understatement that he was feeling disappointed.
他极力轻描淡写地跟我们说他感到失望。
e.g. ...typical British understatement.
典型的英国式轻描淡写
1. (低调):个人的品味是与生俱来的,并随人生的经历演化;对简约(simplicity)和低调(understatement)的钟爱越来越深厚. 对我来说一件美丽的物件必须有独一无二和精致的气质,实用而且手工轻质. (对,我是一个完美主义者)还有我偏爱能够与个人情感、经历或者回忆联系的物件--可能是一个小细节,
2. 克制陈述:有人根据反讽在实际运用中所需的技巧和体现出的功能把反讽划分成两种类型,指出,从技巧上反讽可分为:克制陈述(understatement)、夸大陈述(overstatement)、悖论(paradox)等;而从功能域方面反讽则可分为:语言层、词汇层、句法层和文本层反讽等.
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临近词
- dryness干燥
- sarcasm挖苦
- underestimation低估
- irony反讽
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- overstatement夸大其词
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To say that the last few years were not kind to the auto industry is a massive understatement.(要说过去几年汽车行业不景气,似乎过于轻描淡写。)
The first love, still cannot understatement.(第一次的爱,始终无法轻描淡写。)
Saying that virtualization is a hot technology today is an understatement.(目前,简单地将虚拟化称为一种热点技术似乎有些保守。)
To say that the stylesheets I have introduced in this article are simplistic would be an understatement.(如果要说本文中介绍的样式表很简单,就太过谨慎了。)
The present paper attempts to make a cursory comparison of understatement structures in English and Chinese.(本文从英语教学和英汉翻译的应用角度出发比较英汉低调陈述结构;)
To say it is a large-scale piece is an understatement.(如果说这是一个大规模的一块是轻描淡写。)
It would be an understatement to say the web has gotten faster in recent years.(web在近些年来已经变得更快了,不过这样的说法有些保守。)
He was accused of hyperbole but seems, rather, to have been guilty of understatement.(人们谴责他危言耸听,但现在看来,似乎应该是谴责他过于轻描淡写了。)
He always goes for subtlety and understatement in his movies.(他总是在自己的电影中运用细腻刻画和淡化手法。)
To say that blogs experienced exponential growth is a bit of an understatement.(说博客经历了指数级增长是有点儿低估它了。)
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