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To overrate something is to judge it as better, more important, or more useful than it really is. overrate a film; fans overrate a player; a school might overrate a test. The word has an edge: you are saying someone gave it too high a place. In everyday talk you will hear the -ed form much more than the plain verb — “That restaurant is overrated.” The verb itself is a little more formal and shows up in reviews and arguments. Though actually, to overrate is not the same as to like something a lot. You can love a song and still not overrate it. Overrating is about the score you give it in your head, next to what it deserves. There is a quieter noun, overrate, for the act of doing this, but most people just use the verb.
高估
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
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。
overrateverb/ˌəʊvəˈɹeɪt/
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To esteem too highly; to give greater praise than due.
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To overstate or overestimate in amount, extent, degree, etc.
- The vicissitudes of the weather may be responsible for more suffering among the lower animals than in the case of man, but we who live in England are perhaps inclined to overrate the amount of inconvenience occasioned to the world at large by this cause.
- Vance and Martin note another problem with retrospective analysis of sexual patterns in a case in which a person has been diagnosed with AIDS or ARC. There may be a tendency for diagnosed people to overrate their sexual encounters in the belief that promiscuity is the cause of AIDS, thereby explaining or rationalizing their illness.
overratenoun/ˌəʊvəˈɹeɪt/
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An excessive estimate or rate.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。