romanticize
romanticise, v [I, Tn]
(esp derog 尤作貶義) exaggerate or distort (the truth) in an imaginative, falsely heroic, etc way (以想像的、 虛構英雄事跡等方式)夸大或歪曲(事實)
Don't romanticize stick to the facts. 別夸夸其談了--說實際的吧.
a novel that refuses to romanticize the grim realities of war 毫不掩蓋戰爭中殘酷現實的小說.