hyperbole

• n. 夸张的语句；夸张法

hyper-,超过的，向上的，-boll,扔，词源同ball,ballet,ballistic.即向上扔的，引申词义夸张。

1. extravagant exaggeration

hyperbole (n.)

early 15c., from Latin hyperbole, from Greek hyperbole "exaggeration, extravagance," related to hyperballein "to throw over or beyond," from hyper- "beyond" + bole "a throwing, a casting, the stroke of a missile, bolt, beam," from bol-, nominative stem of ballein "to throw" (see ballistics). Rhetorical sense is found in Aristotle and Isocrates.

American humor is founded largely on hyperbole.

美式幽默主要以夸张为基础.

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Prochazka loved to regale his friends with hyperbole and excess.

普罗恰兹卡喜欢用夸张、过激的话与朋友逗乐.

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Liver of goose saying fertilizer is aristocratic food also is not hyperbole.

说肥鹅肝是贵族食品也不为夸张.

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Hyperbole and understatement are two chief rhetorical figures in English language.

夸张与含蓄陈述是英语中两种主要的修辞手段.

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Mr Murdoch was unwise to indulge in adolescent hyperbole.

小默多克沉溺于这种年少轻狂是不明智的.

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Such hyperbole might seem reminiscent of the dotcom bubble.

这样的夸张景象可能会让你想起网络泡沫.

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There's nothing wrong a little confidence, even the point of near hyperbole.

有点信心并无什么过错, 甚至夸张一点也并无大碍.

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That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense . So let's get concrete.

这似乎听上去很夸张, 或者就像抽象的胡言乱语.

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Quantitative hyperbole is common figure of speech in both Chinese and English.

数量夸张是汉语和英语所共有的修辞格.

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This might sound like hyperbole.

这个玩笑有些言过其实.

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Instead, recruitment is often an orgy of hyperbole.

而事实上, 招聘常常是没边儿的夸张.

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Different criteria result in different categories of hyperbole.

夸张修辞格的分类,因角度不同、准不同,分类结果也不同.

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But the hyperbole is fast becoming reality.

然而这些夸张之辞也将逐渐实现.

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Mourinho was modest afterwards, acknowledging the wild swings in hyperbole to which the media are prone.

穆里尼奥此后谦虚了些, 回应了媒体态度夸张的转向.

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Journalists, often guilty of hyperbole, have struggled for once to capture the rawness of the politics.

记者们素有夸张之能事, 但这一次也对记录政治的生猛感到力不从心了.

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