英语释义

• represent as less significant or important

片语

Understate the number of deaths将死亡人数说得比实际数目少

flamboyant understate辉耀的保守估计

understate a problem低调处理某问题

understate the problem低估问题

ordering of materials understate distribution物资计划订货

英汉例句

• standard & poor’s, a rating agency,reckons that dividends in america could fall by about a quarter this year—the steepest drop since 1938.even this may understate the decline.

  评级公司标準普尔认为今年美国的股利会下降四分之一，这是自1938年以来最大幅度的下降，甚至有可能这还是保守估计。

• a direction given as a request is a managerial typeof understate ment.

  要求性的指示，就是「轻描淡写」在管理上的对应。

• 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。

• that leaves much in the hands of europe’s national governments and although there are good reasons to doubt their resolve, there are no grounds at all to understate the task at hand.

  这给欧洲各国政府留下大批事（需要）处理。尽管有很好的理由怀疑他们的决议，但却没有一点余地给即将到来的任务打个折扣。

• if gdp growth does come in at around 1.5% for the quarter, it will almost certainly understate the economy’s true performance.

  如果本月的gdp增长达到大约1.5%，那么这一数字几乎肯定是少报了经济的真实情况。

• even these dramatic numbers may understate how bad the situation is for the republicans.

  就算只是这些数字我们都能看出共和党现在的境况有多惨。

• he also told us that in the long run we’re all dead … but anyway, i think that both interests and ideology are a problem—and you shouldn’t understate the power of bad ideas.

  他还告诉我们从长远来看，我们都得死。。。但是，不算怎么说，利益和意识形态都是一个问题——而你不应该低估坏思想的力量。

• because hedge funds often borrow to boost returns, this may understate their influence.

  再者，避险基金常常通过借贷（杠桿）提高回报率,其影响力可能被低估。

• and, in the eyes of many environmentalists, these statistics understate the damage norway is doing to the atmosphere.

  而且，在许多环保主义者的眼中，这些统计数据没有据实说明挪威对大气层的污染。

• the result is that official statistics overstate the true size of america’s and others’ deficit with china, while chinese statistics understate its surplus.

  结果是，官方统计夸大了美国以及其它国家真实的对华贸易赤字，而中国的统计则低估了其贸易盈余。

• these figures may understate actual price declines.

  这些数字可能低估实际价格的下跌。

• moreover, these numbers understate how much middle-class people are spending per child.

  其实这些数据还低估了中产阶级家庭花在每个孩子身上的钱。

• they should be urging companies to borrow money to enhance returns and they should be resisting buy-outs, because they understate the potential value of the companies in question.

  他们要催促公司借贷以增加回报，也要抵制收购，因为收购往往会贬低所收购公司的潜在价值。

• moreover, in some asian countries, expenditure figures may understate the true extent of inequality.

  此外，在一些亚洲国家，支出数字可能低估了真实的不平等程度。

• it is hard to understate the importance of seoul「s f-x iii competition to the two main contestants, boeing and lockheed martin.

  很难将f-xiii项目对洛克希德·马丁和波音这两家竞争对手的重要性轻描淡写。

• 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。

• all of which suggests that wall street」s optimists may understate the impact of weaker home prices on spending.

  所有的一切都表明华尔街的乐观派有可能是故意低估了房价走弱对消费支出的影响。

• 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。

• but these small holdings could understate their influence, which may be exercised indirectly, through friends, familiars or financial derivatives.

  其实小股东远可以通过人际关系网和金融衍生工具来间接施加他们的影响。

• some models are 「static」, measuring only the one-off reallocation of resources that comes from freeing trade, which means they understate the long-term gains.

  其中，用于衡量由自由贸易产生的统一资源重新分配的模型是「不变的」，这就说明他们未计入长期收益。

• standard &poor’s, a rating agency, reckons that dividends in america could fall by about a quarter this year—the steepest drop since 1938. even this may understate the decline.

  标準普尔，一家评级公司，估计了今年美国的分红会下降四分之一，这是自1938年以来最大幅度的下降，甚至有可能这还是保守估计。

• taxing property makes sense because of the widespread greek tendency to understate income.

  给财产纳税是无可厚非的，因为希腊人普遍倾向于低估收入。

相反词

exaggerate夸大；夸张

overstate夸张；夸大的叙述

overstate夸张；夸大的叙述