Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind.

知识让我们愤世；聪明得冷酷无情。

Drunk on self-confidence and cleverness, he could take it wherever he fancied.

自恃天赋异禀，无论在哪里他都能美梦成真。

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

比起聪明，我们更需要善良和温柔。

The charlatan scoffed. “Your magic is more than equal to that fool's imagination, ” he assured her, and he retired to the castle, well pleased with his own cleverness.

江湖骗子嗤之以鼻。“你的魔法完全对付得那个傻瓜的想象力。”他向她保证后便回城，为自己的聪明沾沾自喜。

A) ;;;;Greater emotional cleverness means less trouble in one's life.

A）；；；；情感上更聪明意味着生活中更少的麻烦。

Danglars smiled to himself, well pleased with his own cleverness and judgment of other men.

邓格拉斯心里暗笑，对自己的聪明伶俐和对人的准确判断而洋洋自得。

We laughed about them afterwards. We were young, thoughtless—carried away with our own cleverness.”

事后我们就拿这样的事说笑话。当时我们年轻，不懂事，只管为自己的聪明而得意。”

But Holmes was thinking more about Sir Henry than about Stapleton's cleverness.

福尔摩斯对亨利爵士比对斯台普顿的狡猾考虑得要多些。

The man took the credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness.

管理得好时，男人享受名誉，女人还得称赞他能干。

This is an animal that might actually have some cleverness too.

这种动物或许有些许智慧。

I am sick to death of cleverness.

我厌倦聪明。

You give him credit for too much cleverness.

你太夸奖他的聪明。

Because of astronomy, because of SCIENCE, we now stand on the edge of understanding, our cleverness and brilliance having taken us to the point where these questions, finally, have an answer we can almost touch.

因为天文学，因为科学，我们现在站在理解的边缘，我们的聪明和才华已经把我们带到这一点，最终，这些问题都会有一个我们几乎以触及的答案。

No wonder, then, that with all this cleverness, Rembrandt was talent-spotted, singled out by Constantijn Huygens, the most influential patron in all of Holland, as the coming man, a diamond in the rough.

不出意外的，凭着他的这些聪明劲儿，伦勃朗最终被康斯坦丁·惠根（Constantijn Huygens）慧眼所识，脱颖而出。这个荷兰最具影响力的赞助人，他认为伦勃朗大有前途，他就块璞玉。

Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays. There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.

故兵闻拙速，未睹巧之久也。夫兵久而国利者，未之有也。

After all, most of the problems of the world and of individual lives clearly come down to a shortfall in cleverness — and a surfeit of impulsiveness, self-righteousness and cruelty.

毕竟，世界和个人生活中的大多数问题显然都以归结为聪明才智的不足——以及过度的冲动、自以为和残忍。

If you know this, you understand the cleverness in a line such as — if reasons were as plentiful as Blackberries.

如果你知道这一点，你就会理解这一行中的聪明之处，“如果理由像黑莓一样丰富。”

He used to make merry over the cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late.

他过去对女人的聪明机智常常加以嘲笑，近来我很少听到他这样的嘲笑。

Well, she wouldn't swell his conceit by complimenting him on his cleverness.

那么，她决不能奉承他的聪明，使他更加洋洋得意。

Whether you are competent or not really depends upon your cleverness and experience.

不论你否有能力，人们都需要靠自己的聪明度和更多的经验来找工作。