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understating是understate的现在分词 understate美 [.ʌndər'steɪt] 英 [.ʌndə(r)'steɪt] 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 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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