understatements是什么意思？

understatements

• n. 有节制的陈述或表达( understatement的名词复数 )，少说，少报，重事轻说；

例句

• Search for exaggeration and understatements. 留意夸张和打折扣的话.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  不充分如实的陈述；轻描淡写的说明
  If you say that a statement is an understatement, you mean that it does not fully express the extent to which something is true.
  例句
  To say I'm disappointed is an understatement... 说我失望那是说得太轻了。 He was getting very hard to live with, and that's the understatement of the year. 说他很不好相处，那简直是说得太客气了。
• N-UNCOUNT
  轻描淡写；重事轻说；淡化
  Understatement is the practice of suggesting that things have much less of a particular quality than they really have.
  例句
  He informed us with massive understatement that he was feeling disappointed. 他极力轻描淡写地跟我们说他感到失望。 ...typical British understatement. 典型的英国式轻描淡写