Alright then smarty pants. No need to boast!

好吧，作聪明。不要吹嘘！

Well, you can call that person a smarty-pants. These know-it-all types can be really annoying.

你可以称呼这种为“作聪明（smarty-pants）”。类“以为无所不知（ know-it-all）”真得很烦。

A smart aleck thinks they are very clever and they're very annoying.

smart aleck 这种作聪明，认为他们很聪明，他们很烦。

If children are cheeky they're being wise-arses as you'd say in American English — or wise-ass.

如果有些子很放肆无礼，他们就是像你在美语中说种作聪明，也可以用 wise-ass。

The first one is called a " smart alec(k)" .

第叫做“作聪明”。

A " smart aleck" is somebody who thinks he or she knows everything.

“作聪明”就是认为己什么都懂。

I have been described as a smart aleck, for example.

例如，我被描述为作聪明。

Smarty pants, what do you think regeneration is?

作聪明，你认为再生是什么？

Okay, smarty pants, let's see how well you were paying attention.

好吧，作聪明，让我们看看你到底有没有认真听。

Some wiseacre scoffed at us as the people with only one sauce.

有些作聪明嘲笑我们是只有种调味料。

But remember, I've got a special, heavier cane for smart arses.

但别忘了，对付作聪明，我还有根更重手杖。

So a smart aleck is someone who thinks they are highly intelligent and they try to demonstrate this to others all of the time.

作聪明是些认为己非常聪明，他们总是试图向别证明这点。

So what happens when this guy you call a smartass ends up in front of those conservative congresspeople wanting answers?

么，当你口中这作聪明最终站在些寻求答案保守派议员面前时，会发生什么呢？

A smartass is a person who tries to be funny, but they do it in kind of a not nice way.

作聪明是指试图搞笑， 但方式有点不太好。

Unseen by the thoughtless, unrecorded in the diaries of wiseacres, rarely mentioned in the speeches of statesmen, there was swiftly rising such a tide in the affairs of America as Jefferson and Hamilton never dreamed of in their little philosophies.

轻率看不到， 作聪明日记中没有记录，政治家演讲中也很少提及，美国事务中正在迅速兴起这样潮流， 这是杰斐逊和汉密尔顿在他们小哲学中做梦也想不到。