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"Smart alec" nghĩa là gì?
10 Apr, 2021
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"Smart alec" -> nghĩa là người cố tỏ ra thông minh, trả lời câu hỏi theo kiểu khôn lỏi khiến người khác khó chịu.
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There are many masks (mặt nạ) – the smart alec, the clown, the jock, the bully, the cool dude, the shy mouse – usually with long fringe hiding their face..
What’s downright (thẳng thắn) sick is how many members of the comfortable class — who are too ideologically committed to lockdowns to turn back now — will just laugh as they read these tallies. They’ve always got some smart-alec dismissive (thô bạo) remark to offer or a link to forward that downplays or denies these various harms.
In 1965, as the eponymous King Rat in Bryan Forbes’s film set in a Japanese PoW camp, Segal was in his element as a smart-alec American among the stiff-upper-lip British, surviving by conning his fellow prisoners and camp officers.
Car parking itself is a saga (câu chuyện dài). You have that smart alec who has to reverse park so he can get that 2-second lead on departure and so what if he holds up the traffic while squeegeeing into position.
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