understating是什么意思？

understating

• v. 很有节制地陈述或表达（某事物）( understate的现在分词 )，少说，少报（某数目等）；

例句

• And he was probably understating the truth. 他所暗示的,或许就是这个真理.
• I thought that they were understating the benefit from cheap consumer goods. 我原以为他们理解便宜的消费品给他们带来的好处.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

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