too clever by half

基本解释

• 聪明反被聪明误；过分聪明；聪明过头

英汉例句

双语例句

• But this might prove too clever by half.
  但这样做也可能聪明过头反招厌恶。
• Now, this solution feels too clever by half.
  现在，这个办法让我感到未免太聪明了。
• Watch him carefully and you will understand why some people are criticized for being "too clever by half."
  仔细观察他，你会理解为什么一些人批评为“太聪明了。”

权威例句

• 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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• be too clever by half 聪明过头

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