Exaggerate

(v. t.) To heap up; to accumulate.

(v. t.) To amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth ; to delineate extravagantly ; to overstate the truth concerning.

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• You exaggerate fearfully, she said in a faint, weary voice; but I cannot enter into my defence--it is not worth doing. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Sir James's brow had a little crease in it, a little depression of the eyebrow, which he seemed purposely to exaggerate as he answered. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Indeed, indeed, you exaggerate, I heard him say. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Don't exaggerate, missy. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• What feeling I had on that occasion, Monsieur--and pardon me, if I say, you immensely exaggerate both its quality and quantity--was quite abstract. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• This tendency to exaggerate classification produces a thousand evils and injustices. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Nathaniel Pipkin had ocular demonstration of the fact, that the rumours of old Lobbs's treasures were not exaggerated. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• My readers, besides accusing me of vanity, would not believe such exaggerated feeling as he evinced, to be in human nature. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• This amiable baronet, really a suitable husband for Celia, exaggerated the necessity of making himself agreeable to the elder sister. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Ursula knew she gave herself away to the other woman, she knew she looked ill-bred, uncouth, exaggerated. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• In this, Plato was only following the common thought of his countrymen, which he embellished and exaggerated with all the power of his genius. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The public mind had been much disturbed by reports, possibly by exaggerated reports, of a recent banquet at Versailles, hostile to the nation. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Parsons' is one whose significance in happiness can hardly be exaggerated. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• We might be seeing it all this spring--even the Easter ceremonies at Seville, he urged, exaggerating his demands in the hope of a larger concession. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Why is it not better worth such tears, and such tenderly exaggerating faith? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The old man evidently thought that his son was exaggerating in his description of one or two trivial feats which I had performed. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• He has no sufficient idea of the effect of literature on the formation of the mind, and greatly exaggerates that of mathematics. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Plato in a hyperbolical and serio-comic vein exaggerates the follies of democracy which he also sees reflected in social life. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• There is nothing to explain, said Crispin, with a yawn; you know the way Caliphronas exaggerates. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Madame Olenska exaggerates; I simply gave her a legal opinion, as she asked me to. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• As Ginevra speaks, they do not carry with them the sound of unmixed truth: I believe she exaggerates--perhaps invents--but I want to know how far. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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