exaggerate
英 [ɪg'zædʒəreɪt; eg-]
美 [ɪɡ'zædʒəret]
助記提示
1、ex- "completely, thoroughly" + ag- "to, toward" + ger- "bear, carry, bring" + -ate.
2、字麵含義：completely or thoroughly (bring together / carry toward). => completely or thoroughly (heap up / pile up). => heighten, amplify, magnify, accumulate, overstate.
3. e‐出 xa‐下 gg‐雞蛋 (或者：egg倒置為：gge)，下出雞蛋來的速度被誇大了：e- + xa + gge (egg => 倒置: gge) + rate => exaggerate.
中文詞源
exaggerate 誇大ex-, 向外。ag-,向。-ger, 攜帶，帶來，詞源同gesture,belligerent.
英文詞源
- exaggerate
- exaggerate: [16] Something that is exaggerated is literally ‘piled up’ out of all due proportion; indeed that is what it originally meant in English: ‘With their flipping and flapping up and down in the dirt they exaggerate a mountain of mire’, Philip Stubbes, Anatomy of Abuses 1583. It was not really until the 17th century that the current sense ‘overemphasize’ came to the fore, although it was already present in the word’s Latin original. This was exaggerāre, a compound formed from the intensive prefix exand aggerāre ‘pile up’ (a derivative of agger ‘heap’).
- exaggerate (v.)
- 1530s, "to pile up, accumulate," from Latin exaggeratus, past participle of exaggerare "heighten, amplify, magnify," literally "to heap, pile, load, fill," from ex- "thoroughly" (see ex-) + aggerare "heap up, accumulate," figuratively "amplify, magnify," from agger (genitive aggeris) "heap," from aggerere "bring together, carry toward," from assimilated form of ad- "to, toward" (see ad-) + gerere "carry" (see gest). Sense of "overstate" first recorded in English 1560s. Related: Exaggerated; exaggerating.
雙語例句
- 1. There could be more unrest, but I wouldn't exaggerate the problems.
- 可能會有更大的動蕩，不過我想也不必誇大問題。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. A painter may exaggerate or distort shapes and forms.
- 畫家可能會對線條和形狀進行誇大或扭曲。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. These figures exaggerate the loss of competitiveness.
- 這些數字誇大了競爭力的喪失。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Don't exaggerate.
- 別誇張。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. This chap likes to exaggerate and is good at nothing but boasting.
- 這個人言過其實,就會吹牛皮放大炮.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》