Mr Simms is prone to overstatement, for example.

比如Simms易于言过其实。

" Surely that's a little bit of an overstatement? "

“这肯定有些夸大其辞吧。”

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。

But do you think that's an overstatement?

但你认为这是夸大其词吗？

Well, " good" is probably an overstatement.

要说" 没事" 可能有点过于乐观了。

Is that an overstatement, an understatement, or maybe just about right?

这是夸大、轻描淡写还是差不多正确？

Let's take a look at what an overstatement might look like.

让我们来看看夸大其词可能是什么样子的。

And it's no overstatement to say our lives — and the lives of every other creature on Earth — depend on plants.

毫不夸张地说，我们的生命——以及地球上所有其他生物的生命——都依赖于植物。

But it’s no overstatement to say that the Paleozoic Era made life what it is today.

但毫不夸张地说， 古生代造就了今天的生活。

Now, we know that that's an overstatement, but the point is 150 trillion, 100 trillion, that's a lot of money.

现在， 我们知道这是夸大其词，但重点是150万亿、100万亿，这是很多钱。

So clearly, apocalyptically-minded authors have overstated the case. But it's not just the apocalyptics, as I think of them, who are prone to this kind of overstatement.

这样就很清楚了，那些怀着末日心态的作家实际上是夸大其辞了。然而，并非仅仅是那些带有末日心态的人才有这种夸大叙述的倾向。

It also won a technical Oscar award and it is not an overstatement to say that this was one of the most influential works that made me realize that research is my true calling.

它也获得了奥斯卡技术奖，不夸张地说，这是有史以来最具有影响力的作品之一，也正是它使我意识到，研究才是我兴趣所在。

The opposite of an " understatement" is, of course, an " overstatement" – where someone makes something more important than it really seems. If I say, " Harrison Ford was the greatest actor of the twentieth century, " that's probably an overstatement.

“轻描淡写” 的反面当然是“夸大其词”——某人把某事说得比实际看起来更重要。 如果我说，“哈里森·福特是二十世纪最伟大的演员” ，那可能是言过其实了。