understate

现在分词：

动词现在分词: understating

更多词形：

动词过去式: understated | 动词过去分词: understated | 动词现在分词: understating | 动词第三人称单数: understates |

单词例句：

Because hedge funds often borrow to boost returns, this may understate their influence.

再者，避险基金常常通过借贷（杠杆）提高回报率,其影响力可能被低估。

According to official figures that many economists believe understate the true total, fixed-asset investment rose 21.5% in August from a year earlier.

根据官方的数据显示，中国八月份总固定资产投资比去年增加了21.5%，但许多经济学家认为这个数字远远低估了真实水平。

Moreover, in some Asian countries, expenditure figures may understate the true extent of inequality.

此外，在一些亚洲国家，支出数字可能低估了真实的不平等程度。

The twentieth century writer is wary of sounding feverish.He tends to pitch it low,to understate it,to throw it away.

二十世纪的作家很谨慎地避免夸张和狂热，他们往往低调，轻描淡写，轻轻一笔带过。

She refuses on principle to understate her income for taxation purposes.

她出于道德上的动机,不愿为了少纳税而少报收入。

Even these robust retail sales understate the strength of consumer spending, says Arthur Kroeber of Dragonomics, a Beijing-based economic research firm.

设在北京的经济研究公司Dragonomics的ArthurKroeber说，即使是这些强劲的销售数字，也没有完全体现出消费支出的强健。

To call this a security hole is to understate the point woefully.

不幸的是,将它称之为安全性漏洞是轻描淡写的说法。

If discouraged workers have left the labour force because they could not find a job, then the unemployment rate may understate the hardship they face.

如果失去信心的工人因为找不到工作而离开劳动力大军，那麽失业率可能低估了中国所要面临的困难。

To understate(a role)intentionally;underplay.

表演有克制有意识轻描淡写（一角色）；含蓄克制地扮演