He himself proposed the immediate conversion of the other show boy, a clever little fellow, now a Dublin mathematician and still under five feet.

他曾经怂恿另一位小舞男立刻改换门庭，这个聪明的小家伙现在是一名都柏林的数学家，身高仍然不足五英尺。

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What seemed a clever wheeze to avoid the scrutiny of the regulators and auditors now looks foolish, since no bank knows the exposure of any other.

逃离监管机构和审计机关的火眼金睛，过去似乎是明智之举，现在看来相当愚蠢，因为银行不知道其他机构是否曝光。

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In a few seconds her tears stopped and she closed those eyes that had always seemed so clever and clear, but now looked so fearful.

几分钟后她的泪水停止了，她慢慢合上了眼，她的眼神总是那么清澈，闪着智慧的光芒，但是现在那里面却满是恐惧。

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But now your focus is moving from CRM to the CMO and what was so recently clever and edgy now feels old and stodgy.

FORBES: Connect

The emphasis now is on clever (and costly) mobile-banking applications and tools that allow customers to aggregate their data and manage all their accounts from a single screen.

ECONOMIST: Winners and losers

Which brings me around again to the Lexus system, which just four years ago seemed quite clever and now seems clumsy and naive, compared with the recent crop of systems with capacitive (touch-sensitive, iPhone-style) touch screens.

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