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understate美 [.ʌndər'steɪt] 英 [.ʌndə(r)'steɪt] - v.轻描淡写；避重就轻地说
- 网络低估；打着折扣说；少说
过去分词：understated 现在分词：understating 第三人称单数：understates v. play down,minimize,devalue,belittle,make little of 1. | ~ sth 轻描淡写；避重就轻地说to state that sth is smaller, less important or less serious than it really is |
| It would be a mistake to understate the seriousness of the problem. 淡化问题的严重性是错误的。 |
v. | 2. 打着折扣说,有意识地轻描淡写;少报(损失等),少说(能力、要求等) 2. 打着折扣说,有意识地轻描淡写;少报(损失等),少说(能力、要求等) |
v. | 1. to express something in a deliberately less dramatic, emphatic, or emotional way than it seems to warrant, often to increase its actual impact or for the sake of irony 2. to describe something as being smaller in quantity or number than it really is 3. to say that something is less important, serious, big etc than it really is |
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