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
1. (低调)：个人的品味是与生俱来的,并随人生的经历演化;对简约(simplicity)和低调(understatement)的钟爱越来越深厚. 对我来说一件美丽的物件必须有独一无二和精致的气质,实用而且手工轻质. (对,我是一个完美主义者)还有我偏爱能够与个人情感、经历或者回忆联系的物件--可能是一个小细节,
2. 克制陈述：有人根据反讽在实际运用中所需的技巧和体现出的功能把反讽划分成两种类型,指出,从技巧上反讽可分为:克制陈述(understatement)、夸大陈述(overstatement)、悖论(paradox)等;而从功能域方面反讽则可分为:语言层、词汇层、句法层和文本层反讽等.
