exaggerate
品詞: 動詞
意味: 誇張する,大げさに言う
頻度分類: 発展
語源: ラテン語 exaggerare。ex-(すっかり)+ agger(積み上げた土)。
例文: Indeed, academic research has shown for more than 25 years that estimates of desertification have been significantly exaggerated and that most of the world's drylands are not being invaded by spreading deserts caused by deforestation, burning, and overgrazing as claimed since the word was first invented nearly one hundred years ago.
訳: 実際,学術研究は25年以上にわたって,砂漠化の推定が大幅に【誇張されて】いることを示してきた。
京大での使われ方: exaggeration 名「誇張」
覚え方: 土をうず高く盛り上げる=大げさに言う。
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