VOA慢速英语:Are You Too Smart for Your Own Good?

短语讲解：

1. In fact, maybe that person is no longer your friend.

no longer 不再
例句：The mine is no longer being worked.
这座煤矿现在已不开采了。

2. If you are standing too close to a campfire, you could say your eyes are smarting from the smoke of the fire. Here the word “smarting” means a sharp pain.

too...to 太....以至于不能....
例句：He was too lazy to work and too proud to beg.
他懒于工作,又不屑乞讨。

3. If someone is smart as a whip, they are able to think very quickly.

be able to 能够; 能
例句：He is able to lift a very heavy weight.
他能举很重的份量。

4. However, an American researcher argued in 1985 that the expression “Smart Aleck” is actually based on a real man.

base on 使建立在…基础上
例句："Base on Yunfu, orient to the world and aim at the future."
立足云浮,面向世界,走向未来。