| 释义 |
ˌover-ˈpublicize, v.
[over- 27 a.]
trans. To publicize too much or to excess; to give undue importance to by publicizing. So ˌover-ˈpublicized ppl. a.
1939War Illustr. 4 Nov. p. ii/1, I regard Lindbergh's pronouncement on the War as a piece of gratuitous impertinence... One of the most grossly over-publicised personalities of our age he expects too much if he thinks his words must carry weight just because he once flew the Atlantic. 1957L. Feather Bk. of Jazz (1959) xv. 132 Admittedly the drummer today is over-publicized, over-featured and over-praised in proportion to the role he should play as a member of an ensemble. 1964E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Transl. xii. 252 It is unfortunate that MT (standard abbreviation for machine translation) has been over-publicized. 1965‘W. Haggard’ Hard Sell i. 1 Over-publicized world beaters which mysteriously disintegrated. |