understatement
英：[ˈʌndəsteɪtmənt] 美： [ˈʌndərsteɪtmənt]
understatement 基本解释
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
understatement 相关例句
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 PerspectiveInterpretation of Pragmatic Inference of UnderstatementExaggeration 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 IronyContrast and pragmatics in figurative language: Anything understatement can do, irony can do better ☆Dollar unit sampling: multi - nomial bounds for total overstatement and understatement errorsUnresolved contradictions specifying attitudes — in metaphor, irony, understatement and tautology ☆Methodologic concerns regarding estimates of physical violence in sexual coercion: overstatement or understatement?
