understate

['ʌndə'steit]

v.轻描淡写地说, 少说

例句与用法：

Am I to understand that you refuse?

我是不是应当认为你拒不接受？

I don't understand what you are saying.

我不知道你在说什么。

If you can't do it, I will understand.

如果你不会做这件事的话，我可以理解。

词形变化：

动词过去式: understated | 动词过去分词: understated | 动词现在分词: understating | 动词第三人称单数: understates |

vt.

1. 不充分地陈述, 保守地说

2. 少说, 少报

understate

过去式：understated

过去分词：understated

现在进行时：understating

词形变化：

动词过去式: understated | 动词过去分词: understated | 动词现在分词: understating | 动词第三人称单数: understates |

同义词：

minimize | play down | devalue | belittle | make little of | minimise | downplay |

反义词：

overstate |

词义辨析：

反义:

vt.保守地说

overstate

exaggerate

understate[,ʌndə'steit]vt.1.■没有充分地陈述实情；轻描淡写地报道：They exaggerated the enemy's losses and understated their own.他们夸大敌人的损失，而把自己的损失说得很轻微。2.■少说，少报：They often understated their coal output.他们常常少报他们的煤炭产量。变形vt.understatedunderstating

1. [with obj.]describe or represent (something) as being smaller or less good or important than it really is
   轻描淡写陈述
   the press have understated the extent of the problem.
   报道弱化了问题的严重性。
   

understate

动词 understate:

represent as less significant or important

同义词：minimize, minimise, downplay

understate

■Critics argue that the TPI numbers understate levels of activity.

一些评论者认为TPI的数据低估了交易活动水平。

■The third-quarter figures cited above may understate the growth slowdown that China is experiencing.

上述引用的三季度数据可能低估了中国增长减缓的速度。

■To call this a security hole is to understate the point woefully.

不幸的是,将它称之为安全性漏洞是轻描淡写的说法。

■be impossible to understate

不能不详细地说明

■But I also do not wish to understate the complexity of the matter when considered in the context of WTO negotiations.

不过,我希望大家不要低估了问题的复杂性,因为与世贸谈判一并来看时,问题绝不简单。

■To incessantly communicate with all distributors in order to underst their problems or dems.

与经销商不断保持沟通以理解他们的问题与需求.

■Experts said that businessmen always go, when prices rise, they tend to understate the bid;

专家说，商人总是趋利避害的，当房价高涨时，他们倾向于低报成交价；

■Yatou, with so little love, that compassion, so that there appears to understate the deep feeling!

丫头,带着那么一点宠爱,那么一点怜惜,还有那么一点看似轻描淡写的深情!

■The twentieth century writer is wary of sounding feverish.He tends to pitch it low,to understate it,to throw it away.

二十世纪的作家很谨慎地避免夸张和狂热，他们往往低调，轻描淡写，轻轻一笔带过。

■He tends to pitch it low, to understate it, to throw it away.

他倾向于低低的俯仰它，进而理解它，最后丢掉它。

■Article 18 An enterprise shall exercise prudence in recognition, measurement and reporting of transactions or events. It shall not overstate assets or income nor understate liabilities or expenses.

企业对交易或者事项进行会计确认、计量和报告应当保持应有的谨慎，不应高估资产或者收益、低估负债或者费用。

■But the gloomier forecasts tend both to overstate the importance of exports and to understate the size of the government's stimulus.

但是这些更为令人沮丧的预测似乎夸大了出口的重要性，也低估了政府刺激计划的规模。

■But the gloomier forecasts tend both to overstate the importance of exports and to understate the size of the government’s stimulus.

但这种消极的预期，在夸大出口重要性的同时，给政府刺激打了折扣。

■understate a problem

低调处理某问题

■The All-China Women's Federation (ACWF) report on the conditions of children left behind by parents working away from home paints a grim picture that we cannot afford to understate.

全国妇女联合会关于留守儿童（父母在外务工，儿童留守家中）状况的报告为我们描绘了一幅不可等闲视之的惨淡图景。

■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。

■Second is that everyone lies: they understate their ages and overstate their attractiveness, gym attendance, good humour and so on.

其次是每个人都在撒谎：他们少报了年龄，夸大了他们的吸引力、上健身馆的次数和好脾气，诸如此类。

■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（杠杆）提高回报率,其影响力可能被低估。

■understate one's loss

含蓄地陈述损害

■So the studies exaggerate the benefits of ICT investment during the boom years of the late 1990s and understate the delayed benefits in the new century.

因此，这些研究夸大了90年代末经济繁荣期ICT投资的益处，而对该投资在新世纪的延迟收益却轻描淡写。

■Generally they won't intentionally understate your wager amount.

在你开赌之前，务必看看精华区。

■Much of the remaining gap probably reflects disguised capital flows rather than a deliberate ploy by Beijing to understate its trade surplus.

大部分余下的差距也许反映了幕后的资本流动，而非北京故意耍手段少报贸易盈余。

■She refuses on principle to understate her income for taxation purposes.

她出于道德上的动机,不愿为了少纳税而少报收入。

■If a man glances at a woman f me than 10 seconds refuses to avert his gaze, his intentions are obvious, that is, he wishes to attract her attention, to make her underst that he is admiring her.

如果一个男人盯着一个女人超过10秒钟，还不想挪开视线的话，他的意思就十分明显了，他想引起她的注意，想让她知道他爱慕她。

■To merely say that the Internet has made the effective large-scale censorship of ideas impossible would understate the case for the Internet as a tool of unprecedented individual liberation.

如果仅仅只是说互联网使得思想方面大规模的高效审查变得不可能，这对于互联网作为一个史无前例的个体解放利器的重要性也太过轻描淡写了。

■If discouraged workers have left the labour force because they could not find a job, then the unemployment rate may understate the hardship they face.

如果失去信心的工人因为找不到工作而离开劳动力大军，那麽失业率可能低估了中国所要面临的困难。

■The official price index may understate the true average gain but figures for central Shanghai will overstate it.

官方价格指数也许低估真实的平均收益，而对于上海中心区的数据则有些高估了。

■Indeed, this may understate the actual number.

实际上，这一数字可能低于实际水平。

■As a result, standard measures of banking distress, such as the level of non-performing loans, understate the contractionary pressure.

实际上，银行业危机的标准衡量物，比如呆账水平，低估了经济收缩的力度。

■In China, however, even this would understate the true stimulus, because some public-infrastructure investment will be done by state-owned firms or local governments and financed by banks.

对于中国来说，即使是这样来看，还是低估了中国真正的救市资金，因为一些公共基础设施是由国企或地方政府来投资，或是由银行提供资金。

■The attendtion to the value of modern science in any case is not understate .

对现代科学的价值无论如何重视也不过分。

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

对问题严重性的轻描淡写是错误的。

■understate the number of deaths

将死亡人数说得比实际数目少

■Spirit of Barbs, Heart of Wolverine, and Oak Sage no longer understate their radii of effect.

小德的狼獾之心、橡木智者等现在效果明显。

■understate corporate financial worth.

少报公司的经济价值

■understate one's losses,eg of money,troops

少报损失（如金钱、兵员的损失）.

■Some independent economists use a range of proxy indicators to suggest that the official figures understate reality and China is actually growing at 11 or 12 per cent a year.

尤其令人担心的是，银行向有问题的基础设施和工业项目提供贷款失去控制，加剧了原材料价格上涨和能源短缺的状况。

■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。

■The tessera is tiny,and I can't tell it's tooth or bone.I understate it's lacquer with bone wedged.

嵌物太细小了，实在是分不清是牙是骨，保守点就是雕漆嵌骨吧。

■Factory managers understate their potential output.

工厂的管理人员少报他们的潜在产量。

■The press have tended to understate the extent of the problem.

平面媒体想轻描淡写地说明问题的波及面。

■The overstatement of $400 000 in inventory caused us to understate our cost of sales by the same amount.

库存多计的40万美元使得我们的销售成本少计了40万。

■Should underst the impact of design on cost infm Cost Analyst of any proposed changes.

应理解成本分析对设计的影响，任何更改都应通知成本分析员。

■When house prices rise faster, developers tend to understate the sales price, because they worry that the rising prices will lead to government policy intervention.

当房价上涨较快时，开发商倾向于低报销售价格，因为他们担心房价的上涨会导致政府的政策干预。

■9.Patients may overstate or understate their symptoms following a significant allergic reaction, making the diagnosis of anaphylaxis unclear.

患者可能夸大或缩小因明显过敏反应引起的症状，使速发型过敏反应诊断不明确。

■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。

■They therefore understate the Gulf states' holdings, perhaps by as much as $100 billion over the past five years, the IIF conjectures.

所以国际金融协会猜测，过去的5年里，他们低估海湾国家的资金至少有1000亿美元。

■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。

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■If anything, the numbers understate the problem, said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former CBO director and campaign adviser to Republican Sen.John McCain.

曾任国会预算办公室负责人并为麦凯恩(JohnMcCain)充当竞选顾问的霍尔茨-埃金(DouglasHoltz-Eakin)说，要说有什么区别的话，这些数字低估了问题的严重程度。