to exaggerate

基本解释

We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us!
我们总是对我们做过的事情的重要性夸大其词，但是还有多少事情我们还没有做！
To exaggerate a bit, if New York suddenly disappeared, stock markets could keep functioning, but we would not be able to dress ourselves or find art to put on the wall.
夸张一点儿说，如果纽约突然消失，股市可以照常运作，但我们可能会因此找不到好看的衣服穿或买不到出色的艺术品装点墙面了。
Moreover, the system tends slightly to exaggerate the victory of the winning party.
而且，这种制度似乎有些夸大获胜党的胜利。

I don't want to exaggerate this too much but the largest riots in Britain in the eighteenth century are not the riots for political reform at all.
我不想过多地夸张,但十八世纪英国最大的暴乱,完全不是关于政治改革
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It's not occured to me that we shouldn't think fondly or even sort of exaggerate our past.
我也不认为,我们应该喜欢,或者甚至夸张我们的过去。
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Hyping your company is not just a natural tendency to exaggerate your size and importance.
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The other is to exaggerate the place of world affairs in their own job.
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