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"Too clever by half" nghĩa là gì?
27 Oct, 2020
hiểu gì không? Photo by Charles Deluvio 🇵🇭🇨🇦 on Unsplash.
'Be too clever by half' nghĩa là quá tự tin vào trí tuệ/trí thông minh của mình tới mức khiến người khác khó chịu, luôn cho rằng mình hơn người; 'tự cao tự đại'.
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The political manoeuvre (thao túng chính trị), too clever by half, pretends there was a good-faith exercise to introduce competition, then sanctions another layer of a monopoly to stifle it.
Some of the initiatives (sáng kiến) that Kissinger pursued (theo đuổi) along the way were enlightened and imaginative, others impulsively (một cách bốc đồng) brutal and blunt. Some were clever, others too clever by half. As the only European-style realist ever to guide U.S. foreign policy, a power practitioner unencumbered by the sentimental idealism that suffuses American history, he seemed painfully amoral at times.
In spite of its too-clever-by-half title and under the guise of a raunchy (dâm ô, dâm dục) premise (giả thuyết), Netflix’s Sex Education — the tale of a dorky (ngu ngốc, vô tích sự) teenage boy named Otis Milburn and his sex-positive, overenthusiastic sex therapist mom — has executed a thoughtful and charming debut (ra mắt lần đầu tiên) season. A lot of that is due to star Gillian Anderson’s bombastic (khoa trương) performance as the aforementioned unapologetically sex-positive mom.
The Ottoman empire began in the late thirteenth century when the Osmanlis, a Turkish clan or tribe, somehow penetrated into northwest Anatolia, far from the plains and pastures of their ancestral home, very close to the center of Byzantine (Greek) power. This warrior people was swift to move and keen for loot—very dangerous. The Greeks should have known it and seen them as potential, inevitable enemies. Instead, these pseudo-Hellenes, too clever by half, thought they could turn the Ottomans into tools and allies.
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