| 单词 | smart |
| 释义 | smart (smɑːʳt ) Word forms: smarter , smartest , smarts , smarting , smarted 1. adjective B1+ Smart people and things are pleasantly neat and clean in appearance. [mainly British] He was smart and well groomed but not good looking. I was dressed in a smart navy blue suit. ...smart new offices. Synonyms: chic, trim, neat, fashionable smartly adverb [ADVERB with verb] B2 He dressed very smartly, which was important in those days. ...a smartly-painted door. smartness uncountable noun The jumper strikes the perfect balance between comfort and smartness. 2. adjective B1+ You can describe someone who is clever as smart. He thinks he's smarter than Sarah is. Buying expensive furniture is not necessarily the smartest move to make. Synonyms: clever, bright, intelligent, quick 3. See also smartly, street smart 4. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B1+ A smart place or event is connected with wealthy and fashionable people. ...smart London dinner parties. ...a smart residential district. 5. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] Smart bombs and weapons are guided by computers and lasers so that they hit their targets accurately. 6. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] A smart device is able to do many of the things that a computer does, for example to connect to the internet and use software. Wirelessly linked to an internet-connected smart TV, the phone becomes a remote control. 7. verb If a part of your body or a wound smarts, you feel a sharp stinging pain in it. My eyes smarted from the smoke. [VERB] Synonyms: sting, burn, tingle, pain 8. verb [usually cont] If you are smarting from something such as criticism or failure, you feel upset about it. [journalism] Wilder is still smarting from a 3-0 defeat the last time the teams met. [VERB + from] He is still smarting over criticism of his victorious but clumsy performance. [VERB preposition] Synonyms: feel resentful, feel annoyed, feel offended, feel wounded 9. the smart set phrase The smart set is a group of fashionable and wealthy people. [journalism] It was a place to be noticed and to join the smart set. 10. the smart money phrase If you say that the smart money is on a particular person or thing, you mean that people who know a lot about it think that this person will be successful, or this thing will happen. [journalism] With England not playing, the smart money was on the Germans. A lot of smart money in Washington says that peace is nearly at hand. Idioms: a smart cookie a clever person who has good ideas As soon as movie film had been invented, around 1890, smart cookies started thinking about how to accompany pictures with sound. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers a smart alec [British] or a smart aleck someone who thinks they are very clever and has an answer for everything They've got a smart alec lawyer from London to oppose bail. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers the smart money if the smart money is on a particular result, then that result is expected by the people who know a lot about it The smart money is on him losing his seat to the Labour challenger. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: smart strategy Mercury gives you the smart strategy, plus common sense, that helps you make the most of these chances. The Sun You become calmer, more patient and devise a simple but smart strategy that turns ambition into action in ways that benefit you, co-workers and family. The Sun You have a smart strategy to deal with work and handle even temperamental people. The Sun And in a smart strategy, the curators use his followers to help us see this more clearly. Times, Sunday Times Paying more attention to neutral customers - while still looking after good ones - has proved a smart strategy. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 聪明的, 刺痛身体某部位或伤口 Japanese: スマートな, ずきずき痛む |
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