SMART

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smart¹ I. adjectiv

1. (despre o lovitură de bici etc.) usturător, biciuitor; sec;

smart reprimand observaţie usturătoare.

2. iute, vioi, rapid;

smart pace pas vioi;

smart attack atac rapid;

smart piece of work lucru făcut repede şi bine;

look smart about it! mişcă-te mai repede! dă-i drumul / dă-o gata!

3. deştept, ager, isteţ, iute, iscusit, descurcăreţ, priceput;

smart lad wanted se caută un băiat isteţ;

(fam.) he’s a smart one e tare / mare şmecher;

(peior.) to try to say smart things a face spirite / glume isteţe;

be smart, eh! faci pe deşteptul, ai?;

(peior.) smart practice escrocherie, afacere dubioasă.

4. (despre ţinută, toaletă) elegant, distins, şic, cochet;

society, the smart set lumea / societatea elegantă.

smart¹ II. adverb, vezi smartly.

smart² I. substantiv

1. durere usturătoare, arsură (din pricina unei răni).

2. lovitură biciuitoare.

smart² II. verb intranzitiv

1. (despre o rană, ochi) a ustura, a arde;

the smoke makes the eyes smart fumul înţeapă ochii.

2. (despre persoane) a suferi;

to smart under an injustice a suferi din pricina unei nedreptăţi;

he will make you smart for it are să te facă să i-o plăteşti scump, răzbunarea lui va fi usturătoare;

you shall smart for this ai să mi-o plăteşti scump, ai să-mi plăteşti scump pentru asta.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“But now, you look here: you're young, you are, but you're as smart as paint. I see that when I set my eyes on you, and I'll talk to you like a man.”

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

That was a great deal too smart for me.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

You came across someone who was smarter this time.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was a smart enough fellow, though rough of speech and bearing.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

The official, a smart, keen-faced young fellow, stepped into the room.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Smart fellow, that,” observed Holmes as we walked away. “He is, in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known something of him before.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I say that all prize-money should be divided equally among the whole fleet, and until you have such a rule, the smartest men will always be found where they are of least service to any one but themselves.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The smart of her hand and the ache of her heart were forgotten in the sting of the thought, "I shall have to tell at home, and they will be so disappointed in me!"

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

But that was not smart enough for my family.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

I see you were smart when first I set my eyes on you, but this here gets away from me clean, it do.”

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

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