understates

英 [ˌʌndəˈsteɪts]

美 [ˌʌndərˈsteɪts]

v.  轻描淡写; 避重就轻地说
understate的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 不充分如实地陈述；对…轻描淡写；打折扣地说
  If youunderstatesomething, you describe it in a way that suggests that it is less important or serious than it really is.
  1. The government chooses deliberately to understate the increase in prices...
     政府故意对物价上涨轻描淡写。
  2. That understates my commitment to the orchestra.
     那没有充分表达我对管弦乐队的热爱。

双语例句

• This means that data on outflows, which reflects actual repayments to investors, understates the true picture.
  这意味着资金外流数据事实上低估了真实情况，因为这些数据反映的只是对冲基金实际归还给投资者的资金。
• That reckoning, however, understates the likely impact.
  然后这种测算低估了可能的影响。
• For the third year in succession, the economy is on track to grow by more than 10 per cent, according to Chinese statistics, a figure that many foreign investment bank economists think understates the true pace of development.
  中国的统计数据显示，中国的经济增幅将连续第三年超过10%，而许多外国投资银行的经济学家都认为，这个数字低估了中国的实际发展速度。
• Also, Brazil's CONAB typically understates area increases by3 percent in years of sizable increases.
  在播种面积大幅增长的年份，巴西政府的作物研究机构通常会将面积增幅少报3%。
• Some economists argue it understates the'real'inflation figure.
  一些经济学家认为，这个指标低估了“真实”的通胀水平。
• But the growth came at the price of 6000 mine deaths last year, an official figure that understates the real number, and horrendous pollution and environmental destruction in mining areas such as Shanxi.
  但是，去年煤炭增产的代价是6千名矿工遇难（这是低估了真实数字的官方数据），以及山西等矿区骇人的环境污染和破坏。
• Converting China's GDP into dollars at market exchange rates therefore understates the true size of its faster-growing economy and, in turn, understates world growth.
  将中国的GDP以市场汇率转换成美元以此不能描述中国快速发展经济的正真水平并且进一步描述世界的增长。
• But Hong Liang, an economist at Goldman Sachs, reckons that the M2 measure of money understates the amount of liquidity sloshing around in China.
  然而，高盛公司的经济学家梁红认为以M2来测算低估了游弋在中国周边流动性资金的规模。
• But even this GDP comparison understates the achievement of Zhejiang because GDP may not reflect accurately the wealth of a country or a region.
  不过，就算采用gdp比较方式，仍低估了浙江取得的成就，因为gdp可能无法准确反映一个国家或地区的实际财富。
• Since the income level needed to put you in the 1 per cent has increased dramatically, this understates how much the growth of finance has contributed to inequality in income distribution.
  由于跨入这1%人口的收入门槛已大幅提高，这低估了金融业壮大对于加剧收入分配不平等的影响。