understatement

英式音标：[ˈʌndəsteɪtmənt]

美式音标：[ˈʌndərsteɪtmənt]

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概况：

n. 保守的陈述；不充分的陈述；有保留的陈述

词义：

n.

保守的陈述；轻描淡写；

变形

复数：understatements

英英释义

understatement[ ʌndə'steitmənt ]

n.a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said

用法：

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

To say the film is bad is an understatement.
说这部影片不好是比较温和的说法。

The description above is quite an understatement.
上文的评价其实很保守。

权威例句

Understatement as a pragmatic strategy: An adaptation-based approach,

On Pragmatic Inference of Understatement from a Cognitive Perspective

Interpretation of Pragmatic Inference of Understatement

Exaggeration is harder than understatement, but practice makes perfect!

On the Features and Sociopsychological Conditions of Understatement

"I've Never Seen Anything Like It": Overstatement, Understatement, and Irony

Contrast and pragmatics in figurative language: Anything understatement can do, irony can do better ☆

Dollar unit sampling: multi - nomial bounds for total overstatement and understatement errors

Unresolved contradictions specifying attitudes — in metaphor, irony, understatement and tautology ☆

Methodologic concerns regarding estimates of physical violence in sexual coercion: overstatement or understatement?

同根词：understated

英语词源：

understatement (n.)

1799, from under + statement.

造句：

1. That is a bit of an understatement, characteristic of a guy who had an old-school upbringing with an emphasis on respect, humility, and a strong work ethic.

他的说法有点过谦，未必充分反映事实，这是受过传统教育的人的特点，这种教育强调尊敬、谦虚和强烈的职业道德。

-- 来源 -- sports - 汉英

2. It was an understatement.

有点冷嘲热讽的意思。

-- 来源 -- literature - 汉英

3. To say that he was displeased is an understatement, ie He was furious.

说他不高兴是重事轻说（他已怒不可遏）.

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

4. To say the film was bad is an understatement.

说这部影片不好是比较温和的说法。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

5. To give an understatement.

轻描淡写的陈述，不完全的陈述

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

6. " That little bit of understatement is typical of her.

”这种克制是她的典型特点。

-- 来源 -- life - 汉英

7. understatement, esp. expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary.

非直接的说明，尤指用否定反面来表示肯定。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

8. an understatement that expresses an affirmative thought negatively.

以否定形式表达肯定意思的陈述。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

9. "This special use of language, particularly common in English, is known as understatement"

语言的这种特殊用法。称之为"含蓄"．在英语里尤为常见。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译样例 - 社会

10. Voluminous empirical evidence now available shows that the statement, far from being an exaggeration, probably was an understatement.

实际上大量的证据表明，这种说法非但没有夸大甚至还可能是打了折扣的。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句