VERB. （通常指在戏剧中）表演得过于夸张，感情（或动作）过火. If you say that someone overacts, you mean they exaggerate their emotions and movements, usually when acting in a play.

Don' t exaggerate the difficulties of your work.

别夸大你的工作困难。

※A friend exaggerates a man's virtue, an enemy his crimes. 朋友宣扬人的美德，敌人夸大人的罪过。
※Differences-----both real and  imagined ---- are invariably exaggerated in the media and in society as a whole.American writer差别——不管是真实的还是主观想象的——总是被传媒和社会夸大。美国作家   里奥.D.M.

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