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Hyperbole是一种修辞手法，意思是“夸张”，是运用丰富的想象力，在客观现实的基础上有目的地放大或缩小事物的形象特征，以增强表达效果的修辞手法。为了启发读者或听者的想象力和加强所说的话的力量，用夸大的词语来形容事物。 or extenuate what comes before them, and no one is contented with the exact trHyperbole lies, but not so as to intend to deceive by lying. . . . It is in common use, as much among the unlearned as among the learned; because there is in all men a natural propensity to magnify uth. But such departure from the truth is pardoned, because we do not affirm what is false. In a word, the hyperbole is a beauty, when the thing itself, of which we have to speak, is in its nature extraordinary; for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth; and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality. 夸张带有欺骗性，但并非由目的的欺瞒。夸张的使用很普遍，受过教育与没受过教育的人都会夸大其词，因为人的本性如此，会有意地夸大或减轻他们面对的情况，没有人会满意仅仅陈述事实。但是这样偏离事实是可以被原谅的，因为我们没有规定怎样就算错。换言之，夸张是一种美，当我们所述的内容本身就与众不同，我们就可以稍稍夸大其词;而语言描述在稍微超过事实之后会显得更加有力。 | 
