A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
聪明
Smart
I am not that smart.
我没那么聪明。
Smart boys make useless men.
聪明的孩子造就无用的人。
Be smart, but never show it.
聪明一点，但不要表现出来。
I want to make smart choices.
我想做出明智的选择。
A smart model is a good model.
智能模型是一个好模型。
I do believe all actors are smart.
我相信所有的演员都很聪明。
We get too soon old and too late smart.
我们老得太早，聪明得太晚。
I was never into smart college boy music.
我从来不喜欢聪明的大学生音乐。
You have to be smart. The easy days are over.
你得聪明点。轻松的日子结束了。
A smart coat is a good letter of introduction.
漂亮的外套是一封很好的介绍信。
I think it's good to meet smart people and talk.
我觉得和聪明的人聊天很好。
Sometimes even a smart crowd will make a mistake.
有时甚至聪明的人也会犯错。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.
小商人很聪明;他意识到没有免费的午餐。另一方面，他知道去哪里可以买到物美价廉的三明治。
You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.
你可以从人们嘲笑什么看出他们有多聪明。
But here's the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can't. I can't even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don't get it.
但事情是这样的:如果我够聪明的话，我就能搞定冰壶。如果我更聪明，我就能弄明白为什么人们会看着别人这么做。我已经试过了。我不能。我甚至不知道游戏的目标是什么。像飞镖吗?我就是不明白。
Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds.
青少年喜欢做很多和成年人一样的事情:聪明的人在逆境中做出惊人的事情。
I was asked once, “You're a smart man. Why aren't you rich?” I replied, “You're a rich man. Why aren't you smart?
曾经有人问我:“你是个聪明人。你为什么不富有?我回答说:“你是个有钱人。”你为什么不聪明?
If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.
如果一个人没有足够的天赋成为小说家，没有足够的智慧成为律师，并且他的手太不稳而不能执行操作，他就会成为一名记者。