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understatement
[,ʌndə'steitmənt]
释义
n.没有充分地陈述实情;轻描淡写
a statement that makes something seem less important, serious, big etc than it really is
例句
Blair:Yesterday quller caught him smoking hash at school.There was a meeting.And to say it went badly would be an understatement.(Gossip Girl)
布莱尔:昨天主任发现他在学校吸毒了。学校开了个会。要说后果糟糕,都算是轻描淡写的形容了。(绯闻女孩)
Morales: The streets ain't safe.Now there's an understatement.
Rick:What about under the streets? The sewers? (The Walking Dead)
莫拉莱斯:大街上不安全。到现在了,还是这么轻描淡写的结论。
瑞克:那走大街下面呢?下水道?(行尸走肉)