v. 夸大；夸张；过分强调（overstate 的过去分词）
adj. 夸张的；过高的
overstate /ˌəʊvəˈsteɪt/ CET6 TEM8 [ overstating overstated overstates ]
及物动词 If you say that someone is overstating something, you mean they are describing it in a way that makes it seem more important or serious than it really is. 夸大
The authors no doubt overstated their case with a view to catching the public's attention.
作者们毫无疑问地夸大了他们的情形以吸引公众的注意力。
represented as greater than is true or reasonable
同义词： exaggerated / overdone
夸张的(overstated), 此释义来源于网络辞典。
oversimplify 过分地单纯化
overstretch 要求过高
夸大；夸张；过分强调（overstate的过去分词）
夸张的；过高的
The authors no doubt overstated their case with a view to catching the public's attention.
作者们毫无疑问地夸大了他们的情形以吸引公众的注意力。
The pressure on manufacturing workers in the United States to work more efficiently has generally been overstated, often for political reasons.
美国制造业工人面临的提高工作效率的压力普遍被夸大，这往往是出于政治原因。
I think that it's grossly overstated that one needs to have contact with the opposite sex right through the whole of life, in the classroom and outside the classroom and at all ages.
我认为，所谓的一个人需要在一生中保持与异性的接触——无论是课堂上还是课堂外，无论处于哪个年龄段——这种观点过分夸大了。
But political scientist Larry Sabato at the University of Virginia thinks the media has overstated anti-incumbent feelings.
VOA : special.2010.06.12
I really, really need you to read that before the next class, and I want you to read it critically.Kaufman's ideas are important, but they are also overstated, and so they're going to be interesting for us.
我非常非常需要你们在下一次课前读完，要带有批判性的去读，考夫曼的思想是很重要的，但也有夸张的成分在里面，所以阅读他的作品对我们来说是很有趣的。
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Then as the eighteenth century wears on, you begin to get the sense as is well known and I think often overstated you begin to get a cult of genius.
8世纪逐渐过去,浪漫主义的出现,开始涌现出一大批天才。
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In 2009,the H1N1 virus killed more than Some critics say the World Health Organization overstated the impact of H1N1...
VOA : standard.2010.04.29
The chairman of the Nobel Chemistry Committee, Gunnar Von Heijne says the importance of their research cannot be overstated.
VOA : standard.2009.10.07
The need for embedding this Hayekian understanding of markets in the public consciousness cannot be overstated.
It steamrolled into something overstated and comical, like it always does with the Jets.
And the importance of these to public image and share price cannot be overstated.
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