overestimate
高估,高估了,夸大其词,过高估计
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o·ver·es·ti·mat·ed, o·ver·es·ti·mat·ing.
- : to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like: Don't overestimate the car's trade-in value.
- : to hold in too great esteem or to expect too much from: Don't overestimate him—he's no smarter than you are.
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- : an estimate that is too high.
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Examples
Climate change is interfering with how researchers count bonobos, possibly leading to gross overestimates of the endangered apes, a new study suggests.
People also have a tendency to overestimate how moral they have been.
Say that survey findings are a 1% overestimate of the true incidence.
In this sort of case you would always rather overestimate than underestimate.
Both men and women overestimate inflation, but women tend to overestimate it much more.
Americans tend to radically overestimate the benefits of "soft power" or "leading by example".
The sequel proved that he did not overestimate the time, but the process cost considerable bloodshed.
It would be hard to overestimate the importance of the primitive dance in the culture development of mankind.
It is hard to overestimate the important part that company has played in the conduct of the Mesopotamian campaign.
It is impossible to overestimate the ethnologic importance of the materials thus obtained.
All the village was astir over the ball, as well as the Leverich house; it was impossible to overestimate its importance.