查询词典 understate

"While the major changes to the new Focus are most visible in its new exterior and interior design elements, I cannot understate the amount of detailed work that has been put into making the new model more comfortable to drive and to ride in," said Gunnar Herrmann.

新福克斯的大部分改变可以从外观和内饰的设计元素看出来，我不得不提的是我们投入了大量细致的工作，使新车的驾驶和乘坐更为舒适。

At times, the understate-ment appears to have been motivated by kindness—modestly concealing the bulk of Orson Welles, for example— but it also isolated and emphasized the most distinctive features of the subjects at their most expressive instants. One's eyes are immediately drawn to Welles's furrowed brow (1970, photo no. 41), Liza Minnelli's pensive mouth (1977, photo no. 58), Bette Davis's lithe hand floating as indifferently as her exhaled cigarette smoke (1971, photo no. 42), or Truman Capote's hands hovering ever so delicately at his sides 1977, photo no.

你可以从套领毛衣以外的人物脸部空间中，马上被吸引到了个性迥异的人物特征，比如维勒斯带有皱纹的眉毛，明勒丽沉思的嘴，戴维斯冷漠的手势以及香烟飘出的烟雾，以及卡波特的双手优美地盘旋在身体的两侧。

Any fiscal analysis of this type also should take into account the tendency of governments to overtax through parsimonious provisioning rules that understate the true extent of loan losses and lead to erosion in real bank capital.

任何此类财政分析还应该考虑到政府通过节俭的规则而过度征税的倾向，这些规则低估了贷款损失的真实程度，导致对银行真实资本的侵蚀。

This provocative thesis may overstate Israel's heft in Washington and understate its fear of Iran's nuclear ambitions. But it is hard to grumble with Mr Parsi's conclusion that detente between America and Iran, of the sort that might have come about in 2003, would in fact make both Israel and the Middle East as a whole very much safer.

这一观点具有很大的争议性，它可能夸大了以色列对于华盛顿的重要性，也低估了以色列对伊朗核问题的忧惧程度，但既然Parsi在书的结尾处指出，美国与伊朗之间的关系如果出现2003年那次可能出现的缓和，事实上对以色列乃至整个中东地区的安全都十分有利，那我们又何苦对他的这一论点斤斤计较呢？！

To understate intentionally ;underplay.

表演有克制有意识轻描淡写；含蓄克制地扮演

It would be a mistake to understate the seriousness of the problem.

对问题的严重性轻描淡写是错误的。

This approach seems to have worked well, if I may be allowed to understate the obvious.

对於这众所周知的事实，我想我只须轻描淡写就够了。

I'd rather understate my own effort

我宁愿低估自己的努力

I can't understate the importance of always having fun.

我无法充分地说明经常保持愉快的重要性。

If that is already happening, the figures for 2008 could understate the impact of the crisis.

假如这就是已经发生的事，2008年的数据可能没有充分地表述危机的影响。

Chinese traditional virtue is humility and wariness,the compliment and praise to the others should be declination

中国人的传统美德是谦虚谨慎，对别人的恭维和夸奖应是推辞。如

We bought this house on the never-never.

我们以分期付款的方式买下这座房子。