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单词 overblown
释义
overblown
adjective
disapproving
uk
/ˌəʊ.vəˈbləʊn/us
/ˌoʊ.vɚˈbloʊn/
biggeror moreimportantorimpressivethan it should be:
夸张的；过分渲染的
an overblownnewsstory过分渲染的新闻报道
Hisstyleofconductingispreciseanddelicate, never overblown.他的指挥风格准确细腻，毫不夸张。
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  • bloviate
  • blowsomethingout of proportionidiom
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  • dramatize
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  • overdramatic
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  • stretch the truthidiom
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(Definition ofoverblownfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

overblown| American Dictionary

overblown
adjective
us
/ˈoʊ·vərˈbloʊn/
made toseemmoreimportantorbiggerthan what is reallytrue:
As for thewagegap, Davis says it's overblown.
(Definition ofoverblownfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofoverblown

overblown
In the hot winds, they screamed theiroverblownupper harmonics, activated by the wind's force and the over-dried strings.
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It's all very sincere, with an actor's temperament, it's alloverblown, and therefore all the feelings are exaggerated.
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The rhetoric of this passage seems a bitoverblown.
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While his treatment of facts is generally accurate, his interpretation of events is sometimesoverblown, too often tailored to fit military arguments or justifications.
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This tendency towardoverblownrhetoric exacerbates the legitimacy problem confronting contemporary presidency, for it sets expectations far beyond the capacities of the office to deliver.
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He attempted to focus tightly on the technical points of the case and to deflate the plaintiffs'overblownrhetoric.
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Each time the anecdote was sewn crudely into a successive text, the episode wasoverblowna little more, and it quickly pulled the event beyond all sense of proportion.
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However, the claim isoverblown.
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It should be noted that many scholars believe the scandal has beenoverblownand the prosecution of government officials for it was both ethically and legally problematic.
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Octopuslike, massivelyoverblowncities spilt out into administratively colonized and atmospherically and morally polluted woods, fields and streams.
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They made lots of lovely comparisons, but at the same time, a lot of them also said, oh, it's long and it'soverblown, and it's preachy.
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Air intelligence reports were similarlyoverblown.
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I respectfully suggest to him that comparisons between that incredibly tense situation and what is happening now areoverblownhoo-hah.
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No undertaking has been made to expand the cadet forces, and media reports of a possible expansion have beenoverblown.
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We do not want to recreate some gigantic, over-centralised,overblownstructure more appropriate to the 19th century.
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