overrate

overrate

英 [əʊvə'reɪt]
　　美 [,ovɚ'ret]

vt. 過高估計；對…估價過高

中文詞源：

overrate 高估

over-,超過，過度，rate,估計。

例句：

1. It is easy to overrate their importance.
人們易於過分強調它們的重要性.

2. Social analysts often overrate the rate of change.
社會分析傢往往過高估計發生變化的速度.

3. A presidential associate inevitably tends to overrate the significance of the things he does know about.
一個總統的幕僚對於他確實知道的事情,總難免要過分強調其重要性.

4. We must not overrate the accuracy of organic change as a measure of time.
因此我們不必過高地估計生物變化作為時間標準的精確度.

5. You should on no account overrate the enemy's combat effectiveness.
切不可過分估計敵人的戰鬥力.