understate

understate什么意思,understate翻译

基本解释

v.: 轻描淡写；避重就轻地说
网络: 低估；打着折扣说；少说

权威解释

• 轻描淡写；避重就轻地说:

  to state that sth is smaller, less important or less serious than it really is

英汉解释

• 含蓄地说出

• 没有完全说出

• 不尽情地说

• 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)

• 低估;少报

词性分析

• 过去分词：understated

• 现在分词：understating

• 第三人称单数：understates

同义词

v.play downminimizedevaluebelittlemake little of

反义词

v.exaggerate

例句

• The data on operational expenses (USD 200 million) seems to understate the true costs, given the size of the portal.

  关于经营费用的数据（2亿美元）似乎低谷了其真实成本，就网络端口的规模来说。

• To call this a security hole is to understate the point woefully.

  不幸的是，将它称之为安全性漏洞有些轻描淡写。

• George Bush tends to understate the need for a new economic plan.

  布什对于新经济计划需求的说法太保守了。

• It claims that the "leading estimates understate the law"s cost by at least one third. "

  该机构称“主要的估算至少将这项法案的花费少算了三分之一”。

• Some journalists feel that official data on such diseases tends to understate the real extent of outbreaks.

  一些记者觉得，这类疾病的官方数据往往比疾病暴发时的真正程度更保守。

• We may be looking at long-term, double-digit unemployment with official unemployment figures that understate the extent of the problem.

  我们可能会看到失业率长期处于两位数，而官方失业数据仍将低估问题的严重性。

• When asked by the authorities, households seem routinely to understate their wealth out of fear that the taxman will get the data.

  在接受官方询问时，中国家庭似乎经常低报自己的财富，因为人们担心税务局获得相关数据。

• Do available studies understate the long-term significance of international money flows for China"s agrarian economy?

  现在的研究是否低估了国际货币流动对中国农耕经济的长期意义？

• This lack of transparency means that official figures massively understate the true fiscal burden to be serviced in future budgets.

  这种财政支出不透明意味着官方数据大大低估了未来财政预算的真正负担。

• I am not trying to understate the impact of central banks on the market.

  我不想低估外国央行在市场上的影响。