exaggerate
to spoil something by trying too hard to improve it: 着力过猛
There are some great moments, but the writer tends to over-egg the pudding with metaphors and similes when all she's describing is a group of women getting through the day.尽管纪录了一些伟大的时刻，但是作者不过是在叙述一群妇女打发日子的平凡事迹，不需要频频用隐喻和明喻来过度渲染。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Exaggerating & playing down
bloviate
blow something out of proportionidiom
cartoonish
cartoonishly
catastrophize
fulsome
go overboardidiom
grandiloquent
inflated
make a mountain out of a molehillidiom
make little of somethingidiom
make much of somethingidiom
make something of something/someone
meal
mildly
minimization
OTT
protest too muchidiom
underplay
underrate