Exaggeration

(noun.) the act of making something more noticeable than usual; 'the dance involved a deliberate exaggeration of his awkwardness'.

(noun.) making to seem more important than it really is.

编辑:齐克

• Laura was certainly not chargeable with any exaggeration, in writing me word that I should hardly recognise her aunt again when we met. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• And this is God's truth, without one word of suppression or exaggeration, as fifty people, both in this place and out of it, very well know. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• His manner had no air of study or exaggeration. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• If it were any one but me who said so, you might think it exaggeration. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I found my poor girl, there is no exaggeration in the expression, wild with grief and dread. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• When I came to examine the treaty I saw at once that it was of such importance that my uncle had been guilty of no exaggeration in what he had said. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• It is no exaggeration to say that Edison was greeted with the enthusiastic homage of the whole French people. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It looks like an exaggeration or as if the typesetter had slipped in several extra ciphers by mistake, does it not? 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Yes, I said, and the exaggeration may be set down to you; for you made me utter my fancies. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• There is no word of exaggeration in this. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• In the same spirit of exaggeration she had, on the event of her separation from Raymond, caused it to be entirely neglected. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Perhaps that is a slight exaggeration--we did gloss over a few centuries in the Middle Ages. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He would reprove you for speaking with exaggeration. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• And if from a speculative angle the Marxian tradition has shaded too heavily the economic facts, it was at least a plausible and practical exaggeration. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Of course this was an exaggeration. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• This last story and many such stories may be lies or distortions or exaggerations. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• His reputation as a scientist, indeed, is smirched by the newspaper exaggerations, and no doubt he will be more careful in future. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The pictures used to seem exaggerations--they seemed too weird and fanciful for reality. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

整理:泰丝