understate

verb

1. 轻描淡写；避重就轻地说
   to state that sth is smaller, less important or less serious than it really is
   1. It would be a mistake to understate the seriousness of the problem.
      对该问题的严重性轻描淡写是错误的。

1. 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.
   1. The government chooses deliberately to understate the increase in prices...
      政府故意对物价上涨轻描淡写。
   2. That understates my commitment to the orchestra.
      那没有充分表达我对管弦乐队的热爱。

1. The government chooses deliberately to understate the increase in prices
   政府故意对物价上涨轻描淡写。
2. That understates my commitment to the orchestra.
   那没有充分表达我对管弦乐队的热爱。
3. Factory managers understate their potential output.
   工厂的管理人员少报他们的潜在产量。
4. The point is obviously not to understate the relevance of the balance sheets of banks, but rather to simplify the analysis and focus on operational cash and debt versus trying to decipher the balance sheets of the major banks and the nature of their cash and debt obligations.
   此举显然不是为了低估金融类公司资产负债表的相关性，而是为了简化分析，把关注的重点放在运营现金和债务上面&而不是尝试着破译各大银行的资产负债表及其现金和债务的性质。
5. Because so little work is done in each unit of work, the graphs below probably understate the scalability benefits of atomic variables compared to ReentrantLock.
   因为在每个工作单元中完成的工作很少，所以下图可能无法完全地说明与ReentrantLock相比，原子变量具有哪些可伸缩性优点。
6. This figure may understate the problem, however.
   然而，这一数据可能低估了问题的严重程度。
7. Indeed, there is a case for saying that the figures set out above understate the possible growth in demand.
   事实上，有理由认为上述数据低估了中国需求的可能增长。
8. It is impossible to understate how important surging house prices were to consumption.
   房价飙升对于消费的重要性，怎么估计也不会过分。
9. Men have done even better. And that may well understate the leisure gains.
   男性的情况更加可观。而且这很可能还低估了实际增加的空闲时间。
10. We may be looking at long-term, double-digit unemployment with official unemployment figures that understate the extent of the problem.
    我们可能会看到失业率长期处于两位数，而官方失业数据仍将低估问题的严重性。
11. Yet some economists believe the official numbers might actually understate the hot money inflows.
    但一些经济学家认为，官方数字实际上可能低估了热钱流入。
12. And that may well understate the leisure gains.
    而且这很可能还低估了实际增加的空闲时间。
13. It used the pension funding ratios calculated by the states themselves, which almost certainly understate the size of the hole.
    它利用的养老金资金供应比例是由各州自行计算的，这些数据几乎肯定低估了缺口的规模。
14. Furthermore, these numbers understate the gap in living conditions between the US and Brics countries.
    而且，这些数字低估了美国和金砖四国（Brics）生活条件之间的差距。
15. Some journalists feel that official data on such diseases tends to understate the real extent of outbreaks.
    一些记者觉得，这类疾病的官方数据往往比疾病暴发时的真正程度更保守。
16. In addition, experience suggests that as the threat of a downturn increases, corporate leaders tend to understate it, in an attempt to maintain morale among staff, customers and investors.
    此外，经验表明，当经济低迷的威胁加剧时，企业领袖往往会加以淡化，试图保持员工、客户和投资者的士气。
17. 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有些轻描淡写。
18. 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。
19. Some landlords understate their production figures to avoid tax.
    有些地主少报产量以逃税。
20. This is not to understate the latter.
    这并非要低估后者。
21. However, according to the American scholar David Weinstein, the official numbers understate Japanese deflation by several percentage points.
    不过，美国学者大卫韦恩斯坦（davidweinstein）表示，官方数据将日本的通缩率低估了几个百分点。
22. The proposal is one of the most concrete to date aimed at addressing the view that some banks understate risk in order to boost their capital ratios, a crucial measure of bank safety.
    外界认为，某些银行通过低估风险来提升自身资本金比率（衡量银行安全性的一项关键指标）。潘伟迪的建议是迄今旨在打消外界这一看法的最具体建议之一。
23. 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.
    如果因为他们不可能找到工作，丧失信心的劳动者们已经丧失了劳动的能力，这个失业率，不可能让人真正估计到他们所面对的困难。
24. The press have tended to understate the extent of the problem.
    平面媒体想轻描淡写地说明问题的波及面。
25. Understate one's losses, eg of money, troops I get only meagre pay.
    少报损失（如金钱、兵员的损失）.我只得到很少的报酬。
26. Yet even these figures understate the change that is taking place.
    然而即使这些数据相对发生在他们国内的变化而言，有所保留。
27. Yet there are some clues that this may understate the build up of foreign assets, in turn suggesting "hot money" flows into China have accelerated and that holding down the exchange rate is getting harder.
    然而，一些迹象表明，这可能还低估了外汇资产的增长，进而说明“热钱”涌入中国的速度有所加快，而压低汇率的难度正不断加大。
28. However, just as we are apt to forget the negatives when equities are rallying hard, we are also prone to understate the positives during periods of volatility.
    然而，就像我们在股市强劲上扬之时容易忘记负面因素一样，我们往往也会在股市波动期间低估正面因素。

verb

1. represent as less significant or important

   Synonym:    minimizeminimisedownplay