慢速英语:Are You Too Smart for Your Own Good?

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短语讲解：

1. In fact, maybe that person is no longer your friend.

no longer 不再
例句：The mine is no longer being worked.
这座煤矿现在已不开采了。

2. If you are standing too close to a campfire, you could say your eyes are smarting from the smoke of the fire. Here the word “smarting” means a sharp pain.

too...to 太....以至于不能....
例句：He was too lazy to work and too proud to beg.
他懒于工作,又不屑乞讨。

3. If someone is smart as a whip, they are able to think very quickly.

be able to 能够; 能
例句：He is able to lift a very heavy weight.
他能举很重的份量。

4. However, an American researcher argued in 1985 that the expression “Smart Aleck” is actually based on a real man.

base on 使建立在…基础上
例句："Base on Yunfu, orient to the world and aim at the future."
立足云浮,面向世界,走向未来。