I often talk about why you want "smart" money (yes, I use quotes because I know it's not always as smart as it promises to be).

我经常谈论为什么你需要“聪明”(是的，我也用了引号，因为有些时候并不是正如其所说的那么聪明)的钱。

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The rest arrived in no discernible order, but I noticed that all of them, smart and stupid alike, seemed hardly to talk, or, if they talked, it was only in whispers.

其他学生也次第而至，但是我注意到，所有人，不管看起来是聪明还是愚笨，几乎都不说话，即便他们交谈，也只是交头接耳。

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"Well, Oscar was smart," Donna said. "he generally kept a safe distance from my mother, but when she'd stop to talk to him, he'd stop too."

“是啊，奥斯卡就是很聪明，”当娜说，“一般情况下它总是和我母亲保持着某个安全距离，可当母亲无法和它说话的时候，它也不再和老人家说话了。”

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The policy has been working well for retailers, as it hypes consumer emotions, making them feel smart and talk to other consumers about it.

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Though actually building a line to China would be difficult, "Pakistan is smart to talk about China, " says Thomas Pickering, former U.S. Ambassador to India and Russia.

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