"Smart-ass" nghĩa là gì?
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"Smart-ass" -> nghĩa là người luôn cố tỏ ra thông minh hơn người khác (tới mức khó chịu); thằng khôn lỏi.
Ví dụ
“So I don’t think that [Salvor] being female changes anything about the character. I think that Salvor is cheeky (xấc xược) and smart-ass and no-nonsense and just lots of fun to play so I hope that really relates over to the fans. She’s just a human being and Isaac Asimov wrote human beings,” Harvey said.
But certain elements of Reese and Wernick’s script are definitely new, including the revelation (khám phá) that Mackie will be playing a “smart-ass milkman” in the series, tapping into one of literature’s greatest and most recurring archetypes (nguyên hình).
It’s grossly (thô bỉ) irresponsible. Or worse. But I don’t know that yet. Imagine a zebra, they say. What information is in its bar-coded (mã vạch) stripes? You can’t tell, I say; zebras don’t fit on the supermarket scanner. They call me a smart ass.
And, as time went on, I suddenly discovered what Elvira really was: she is me when I was a teenager. I was this cocky (tự cao), know-it-all smart ass, didn't take any crap from anyone — that was me when I was 15, 16 years old. I had no fear. Elvira is that part of me that was a teenager — a part of it never went away.
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