To square these wants he may therefore have been a bit too clever for his own good.
为了使自己的这些愿望相一致，他可能因此过于为己专营。
He is too clever by half, is that young man; one of these days he'll come a cropper.
这小伙子未免太聪明了一点，总有一天他要栽跟头的。
Lady Lucas was a very good kind of woman, not too clever to be a valuable neighbour to Mrs. Bennet.
卢卡斯太太是个很善良的女人，真是班纳特太太一位宝贵的邻居。
Watch him carefully and you will understand why some people are criticized for being "too clever by half."
仔细观察他，你会理解为什么一些人批评为“太聪明了。”
But don't be too clever. Faced with a know-all, many people keep quiet because they see no point in continuing.
但是不要过去自作聪明，面对一个无所不知的人，许多人会保持安静因为他们找不到继续下去的点。
Yet even the act of retrieving an item can be rather complex if you try to be too clever with multi-threading logic.
然而，即使你擅长于多线程逻辑，在获取该数据结构的元素项时，仍然有些复杂。
"People are always too clever with their elder children; they try to do something exceptional with them," said the visitor.
“大家总对年龄较大的儿童自作主张，总想做出什么不平凡的事业。”女客人说道。
"By going for one name, we missed the majority of information mankind knows about that plant, which isn't too clever," said Paton.
通过使用一个名字，我们错过了人类关于那个植物的知识中的大部分，这是非常不明智的。
It is the quiet predator that grows by buying all or parts of those firms that are stupid enough, or too clever-by-half enough, to fail.
这是一个沉默的猎食者，通过收购一些公司部分或全部的愚蠢业务，或收购哪些因聪明过头而倒下的公司来成长。
Indeed, in another "too clever by half" device, the Europeans have gone out of their way to ensure that the 50% Greek haircut does not trigger payments under CDS contracts.
的确，在另一个“自作聪明”的策略下，欧洲人民不畏艰险地确保了50%的希腊抵押在CDS协议下是拿不到钱的。
Elliott was too clever not to see that many of the persons who accepted his invitation did so only to get a free meal and that of these some were stupid and some worthless.
艾略特是一个聪明人，必然看处出来，大多数接受他邀请的人，只是为着吃一顿不花钱的饭而来，他知道他们当中有的是愚笨的，另外有的是不足轻重的。
"There are always people who will say that if you lose less money you are too clever," says one executive. "The proof [that we weren't betting against clients] is that we also lost money."
“总有一些人说，如果你输钱较少，你就聪明过头了”，一位高管说，“(我们没有跟客户对赌的)证据就是我们也输钱了。”
His best known book, "Cloud Atlas", came within a whisker of winning the award in 2004, but the judges could not throw off the suspicion that it was just a bit too clever for its own good.
最知名的作品《云图》，仅距04年的曼布克奖咫尺之遥，但是评委们不免怀疑如果只是为其自身利益(即获奖)，这本书是否做得有点聪明过头了？
They too could've come up with clever ways to upscale the system for their millions of users, and totally beaten Google to the punch.
他们本也可以用聪明的方法为成千上万的用户提升系统规模，先发制人。
Purifying it involved a clever trick using enzymes that can identify and destroy the genetic material of micro-organisms without also destroying too much of the DNA of interest.
有一个巧妙的方法来纯化dna，用一种酶能够辨别和摧毁微生物有机体的遗传物质而不会销毁太多相关的DNA。
Nothing says I'm too lazy to get offline like an E-mail with the subject line "will you marry me." And please don't think adding in a clever kissy smiley face will help matters at all.
懒到发一份主题为“你愿意嫁给我吗”的求婚邮件就匆匆下线，你别以为加个可爱的亲吻笑脸就能一切搞定了。
This starves clever but unconnected firms of capital, and cheats savers, too.
这不仅使得那些有才干的企业缺乏资金并且也欺骗了储户。
Bad small talkers tend to dominate the conversation. They spend too much time on their favorite topic, whether it's football or how clever their kids are.
不擅长闲聊的人往往想要在谈话中占据主动。他们花费过多的时间来谈论喜欢的话题，无论是讨论足球还是夸奖他们的孩子有多么聪颖过人。
There was an Englishman in the bar, too, and he said to the Irishman, "the Americans are very clever, aren't they?"
有一个英国人在酒吧里，也和他说，爱尔兰人，“美国人很聪明，是不是他们？”
Anansi is clever and cunning, and always hungry. One day he was a bit too greedy, find out what happened in this story.
阿奈斯既聪明又狡猾，它更常常觉得肚子饿。有一天，它特别贪心，看看在故事中发生了什么事。
There's a difference between craziness that is smart and funny and witty and clever, and dumb brutish craziness, which there's too much of.
那些幽默风趣的疯狂和现在到处都是的那些傻里兮兮的疯狂是有区别的。
For Annie, the following is correct: If she is clever, then she must be wealthy too.
对于安妮来说，下面的说法是正确的：如果她非常聪明，那么她也腰缠万贯。
For Annie, the following is correct: If she is clever, then she must be wealthy too.
对于安妮来说，下面的说法是正确的：如果她非常聪明，那么她也腰缠万贯。
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