too clever by half

基本解释

• 聰明反被聰明誤；過分聰明；聰明過頭

英汉例句

雙語例句

• But this might prove too clever by half.
  但這樣做也可能聰明過頭反招厭惡。
• Now, this solution feels too clever by half.
  現在，這個辦法讓我感到未免太聰明了。
• Watch him carefully and you will understand why some people are criticized for being "too clever by half."
  仔細觀察他，你會理解爲什麽一些人批評爲“太聰明了。”

權威例句

• And you've really savaged Mitt Romney for changing his mind, and I'm wondering if you don't run some risk of looking kind of too clever by half here.
  WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney,
• Add that shortcoming to Mr Sarkozy's other sins—he is too clever by half, too ambitious to be a happy number two—and his departure from the limelight was perhaps inevitable.
  ECONOMIST: The disarray on the French right is bad, and getting worse
• But Gordon Brown is too clever by half.
  ECONOMIST: Tax

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短語

• be too clever by half 聰明過頭

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