understatement的翻译

1. a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said

1.不充分如实的陈述；轻描淡写的说明
If you say that a statement is anunderstatement, you mean that it does not fully express the extent to which something is true.

understatement的意思

e.g. To say I'm disappointed is anunderstatement...
说我失望那是说得太轻了。
e.g. He was getting very hard to live with, and that's theunderstatement of the year.
说他很不好相处，那简直是说得太客气了。

2.轻描淡写；重事轻说；淡化
Understatement is the practice of suggesting that things have much less of a particular quality than they really have.

e.g. He informed us with massiveunderstatement that he was feeling disappointed.
他极力轻描淡写地跟我们说他感到失望。
e.g. ...typical Britishunderstatement.
典型的英国式轻描淡写