| 单词 | smart |
| 释义 | smart I. intransitive verb 1. a. < a cut that smarted badly but was not serious > < face smarted where his razor had scraped the skin > < rapid fatigue with burning and smarting of the conjunctiva — H.G.Armstrong > < the smarting of his wounded vanity — G.B.Shaw > b. < this liniment will smart > < a slap that was hard enough to smart > c. < was still smarting wherever the acrid fumes had come into contact with his skin > < had smarted more than once under the lash of the cruel overseer > < this liniment will make you smart but it will do you good > 2. a. < smarting under the prickings of his own conscience > < smarting, evidently, under a sense of wrong — Susan Ertz > < had smarted for years under his father's low opinion of him — Herman Wouk > or with from < smarting from his dismissal — R.A.Billington > < smarting from their defeats — Wall Street Journal > or sometimes with over < smarting over the civil rights issue — R.E.Lee > or at < still smarting at his too candid criticism — W.H.Hudson †1922 > < then suddenly smarted at her own pettishness — Sheila Kaye-Smith > b. < feared that someday he would smart for this foolishness > < you will be made to smart for this offense > transitive verb II. 1. a. archaic < their softest touch as smart as lizard's stings — Shakespeare > < a smart sensation > b. < a smart thrashing > < winced under the smart cut of the whip > < administered a smart reproof > 2. a. < brought the kettle to a smart boil > < a smart rally in oil stocks > < a smart shock of surprise — Ambrose Bierce > < a smart shower from the sinking sun — George Meredith > b. < a smart full-bodied wine > < I'm after bringing down a smart drop — J.M.Synge > 3. a. < walking at a smart pace > < smart trot > < a smart gust of wind > < a brief but smart skirmish > b. < a smart physique > 4. a. < wish I was smart enough to invent something and maybe get rich — Sherwood Anderson > < smart children talk earlier and dull children talk later than the average — Morris Fishbein > < the race is no longer to the strong but to the smart — F.V.Drake > < when are you going to get smart and shut up for a while — Harvey Granite > < smart politics > < a smart move > < a smart investment > < smart management > b. < loaded with prizes for the smart guys … full of booby traps for the unwary — W.H.Upson > < which a few smart men at the top manipulated in their own interest — Elmer Davis > < making a fast buck … smart, a smooth operator — Marc Brandel > 5. a. < the essence of English smart comedy is its combination of verbal distinction with intellectual impertinence — H.E.Clurman > < had been supposed to be clever and had said smart things to him — Samuel Butler †1902 > b. < gave his mother a smart answer > < was punished for being smart > < an unpleasantly smart attitude toward things that were not funny > 6. a. (1) < a smart new yacht > < the smartest ship of the fleet > < drove his blooded horses to his smart carriages — John Reed > (2) < uniform of green faced with orange, smart-looking in spite of being patched — Kenneth Roberts > < trim and smart, from her bronze hair so well done to the end of her neat silver-slippered toe — Louis Bromfield > b. < the smart suburban air — American Guide Series: New York City > < the hotel … is not at all smart but very comfortable — Willa Cather > 7. < the restaurant is small, exclusive, terribly smart — T.H.Fielding > < locations which are considered smart or chic because they are the property of privileged circles — Edward Sapir > 8. chiefly dialect < a smart price for a broken-down car > Synonyms: see intelligent III. < will make all his characters talk smart or epigrammatically — Arnold Bennett > < frankly a good deal of a mug, indifferent to those who cannot play it smart — Alfred Kazin > IV. 1. < a smart in the eyes > < whimpering over the smart from the liniment > 2. a. < only time would cure the smart of their bereavement > < the smart of being the underdog — Abram Kardiner > < was not the sort to get over smarts — Sir Winston Churchill > b. archaic < stand betwixt us and our deserved smart — John Milton > also < a sword that thine enemy's smart is — John Keats > 3. < the wits and the smarts — Sir Walter Scott > < a young Broadway smart — Joel Sayre > 4. dialect V. smarts plural, slang < went to show that intellectual heavies could be beautiful in spite of all those smarts — Cyra McFadden > VI. 1. < a laser-guided smart bomb > — compare dumb 2 herein 2. < a smart machine tool > < smart windows to regulate sunlight > 3. |
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