■ overstate

同 overestimate 相类似，在有 can 的否定句中，表示“不可能过分”亦即“无论多么…都不为过”。

• One can hardly overstate how poorly the US communicates its message and values to the world. (Gingrich, Foreign Policy, July/Aug., 2003, p.46)美国向世界传达自己的主张和价值观，做得多么差，简直怎样形容都不过分。

• unsatisfied
• until
• until
• until
• uphill
• up north
• upon
• upper
• up to
• up to now
• up to now 与 until
• use
• used to
• valuable
• valuable 与 invaluable
• variation
• variation 与 change
• verdict
• verge
• version
• very
• victim
• view
• view of
• view 与 vision