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In this meaning, hyperbolic is the adjective for that stretching way of talking: describing something as much bigger, smaller, worse, or better than it actually is.
In this meaning在這個意思裡, hyperbolichyperbolic is the adjective for that stretching way of talking是形容那種誇大說法的形容詞: describing something as much bigger, smaller, worse, or better than it actually is把一件事說得比實際上大很多、小很多、糟很多,或好很多
A hyperbolic story piles on drama. A hyperbolic claim in an promises the moon.
A hyperbolic story誇張的故事 piles on drama把戲劇效果堆得誇張. A hyperbolic claim in an advert廣告裡誇張的宣稱 promises the moon把話說得誇張到不可能實現
It can sound a little like essay English; in speech people more often say 'over the top'. It is not a compliment in careful talk. If a review is hyperbolic, you may not trust it, because the feeling has run ahead of the facts.
It它 can sound a little like essay English聽起來有點像作文英文; in speech口語裡 people more often say 'over the top'人們比較常說'over the top'. It這 is not a compliment in careful talk在講究用字的場合不是稱讚. If a review is hyperbolic如果一篇評論很誇張, you may not trust it你可能不會相信它, because the feeling has run ahead of the facts因為情緒跑到事實前面去了
Though actually, the same spelling also appears in maths for a kind of curve, and that use has nothing to do with drama. The room tells you which job the word has. Here we are in the language room: over-the-top describing, not geometry.
Though actually不過, the same spelling同樣的拼法 also appears in maths for a kind of curve在數學裡也會出現,指一種曲線, and that use has nothing to do with drama那個用法跟戲劇化完全無關. The room場合 tells you which job the word has決定這個字在做哪個工作. Here we are in the language room這裡我們是在語言這個房間: over-the-top describing, not geometry講的是誇張的描述,不是幾何
It is not the same as hyper, which is energy in a person.
It這 is not the same as hyper跟hyper不一樣, which is jumpy energy in a personhyper指的是一個人跳來跳去的活力
組成From Latin hyperbolic(us), from Ancient Greek huperbolikós. By the look of the English, hyperbole + -ic.
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- hyperbolethe noun for stretched, over-the-top language
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
hyperbolicadj詞源 1/ˌhaɪ.pɚˈbɔl.ɪk/
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Of or relating to hyperbole.
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Using hyperbole: exaggerated.
- At the risk of being slightly hyperbolic, the fourth season of The Simpsons is the greatest thing in the history of the universe.
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Of a perceived color, having a saturation exceeding 100%.
- Using the techniques already explored, we can contrive to activate a coding triplet in any one of those four extremal corners. If one fixates at length on a pale blue-green stimulus, as in Figure 18, and then refixates on an already maximally saturated orange surface, then the resituated f/p vector will yield an activation triplet within the farthest corner of the cube, beyond the limits of the classical spindle. The H–J theory of our internal color representations entails that one should there find a circular after-image of a hyperbolic orange, an orange that is more "ostentatiously orange" than any (non-self-luminous) orange you have ever seen, or ever will see, as the objective color of a physical object. Row 1 of Figure 19 will allow you, once more, to test such a prediction for yourself.
hyperbolicadj詞源 2/ˌhaɪ.pɚˈbɔl.ɪk/
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Of or pertaining to a hyperbola.
- In this configuration the on-axis image is produced at the real hyperbolic focus (fₛ₂) but off-axis performance suffers.
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Indicates that the specified function is a hyperbolic function rather than a trigonometric function.
- The hyperbolic cosine of zero is one.
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mathematicssciencesHaving negative curvature or sectional curvature.
- There is a universal constant m_0>0 such that every hyperbolic surface R has an embedded hyperbolic disk with radius greater than m_0.
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geometrymathematicssciencesWhose domain has two (possibly ideal) fixed points joined by a line mapped to itself by translation.
- A hyperbolic isometry f has two (distinct) fixed points on ∂ℋ.
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mathematicssciencestopologyOf, pertaining to, or in a hyperbolic space (a space having negative curvature or sectional curvature).
- Exactly one hypercycle is a hyperbolic geodesic, and this is called the axis A_f of f.
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