exagerar
exaggerate ; overstate ; inflate ; make + a mountain out of a molehill ; overplay + Posesivo + hand ; go + overboard ; dramatise [dramatize, -USA] ; get + worked up about nothing ; fret about + nothing ; hype ; throw + Nombre + out of proportion ; blow + Nombre + out of proportion.
Users do not find this intolerable, so it may be that we tend to exaggerate the hostility that would be aroused by a similar approach in library catalogues.
There is a tendency for people interviewed to overstate their use of public libraries.
However, their average results were considerably inflated by one query which retrieved 412 items.
'After all,' he thought to himself, 'I may be making a mountain out of a molehill in this thing'.
Whatever the situation, prepared for or unexpected, it is always too easy to overplay one's hand, praising a book so extravagantly, so effusively, that many children are put off.
The article 'Going overboard with micros in the small library' offers guidelines for the small library on approaching the subject of microcomputers.
This article describes how a group of 12-18 teenage volunteers formed a group to dramatise children's books for young children and their parents at a public library.
Here's why I think this really was a mistake, and why we're getting worked up about nothing in this particular instance.
I suggest that we are fretting about nothing and that we would do well to go with the flow and let the systems be introduced, as has been proposed.
The field is clouded by manufacturers hyping their own products and industry factions spin-doctoring new technologies.
What do you guys think, is this all being thrown out of proportion or is Simon now covering his behind?.
Its not that he fails to deliver his promises, people just take them and blow them out of proportion, and then get disappointed.
exagerar las cualidades de Algo
oversell
Has the library and information profession, by oversell and too narrow development programmes, encouraged exaggerated expectations in developing countries as to the power of information in problem solving?.
exagerar los méritos de Algotiene
oversell
Has the library and information profession, by oversell and too narrow development programmes, encouraged exaggerated expectations in developing countries as to the power of information in problem solving?.
