understatement是什么意思

双语用例

• In this harmonically very unpretentious movement the composer achieves genuine poetry through understatement and delicate sculpting, especially of the sinuous line for solo alto.

• To say that the object permanence literature is an unwieldy one is something of an understatement.

• Otherwise, the editors' claim is that 'it can be used for a wider range of purposes than most conventional grammars', is something of an understatement.

• Most readers of the book will be convinced that this is a clear understatement.

• To say that they were lucky is somewhat of an understatement!

• To brand such "treatment" as subhuman is an understatement.

• Many of the examples involve irony, sarcasm, satire, understatement, or hyperbole, requiring the listener to figure out what the nonliteral intention of the speaker is.

• To say that it mediated action between construction and autonomy is an understatement and depends too much on the ambiguous definition of mediation.