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Từ điển Việt Anh Việt 4in1 - English Vietnamese 4 in 1 Dictionary
understatement
un‧der‧state‧ment /ˌʌndəˈsteɪtmənt $ -dər-/ BrE AmE noun [Word Family: verb: ↑state, ↑understate ≠ ↑overstate; noun: ↑statement, ↑understatement ≠ ↑overstatement; adjective: ↑understated ≠ OVERSTATED] 1. [countable] a statement that is not strong enough to express how good, bad, impressive etc something really is: To say the movie was bad is an understatement. ‘It wasn’t very easy to find the house.’ ‘That’s got to be the understatement of the year!’ 2. [uncountable] the practice of making something seem to have less of a particular quality than it really has with understatement ‘We have not done quite well enough,’ Macmillan said, with characteristic understatement.
understatementhu◎ | ['ʌndəsteitmənt] | ※ | danh từ | | ■ | (hành động hoặc thói quen) nói bớt đi; (hành động hoặc thói quen) nói nhẹ đi | | ☆ | a clever use of understatement | | sự sử dụng khéo léo lối nói bớt đi (để gây ấn tượng..) | | ☆ | to say that he was hot-tempered is an understatement | | bảo rằng nó nóng tính là đã nói nhẹ đi so với thực tế (vì đúng ra phải nói là nó xấc láo) |
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