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street-smart

/street-smahrt/US // ˈstritˌsmɑrt //

聪明人,聪明绝顶,聪明的人,聪明伶俐

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : possessing or showing street smarts.

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Examples

  • A street sweeper was caught in the crossfire as a gunman fired at the officer, fatally wounding her in the back.

  • When it became too crowded, they moved her into an open casket on the street.

  • A Wall Street person should not be allowed to help oversee the Dodd-Frank reforms.

  • The gunman then burst from the restaurant and fled down the street with the other man.

  • The big slug happened to hit the suspect in the street, passing through his arm and then striking Police Officer Andrew Dossi.

  • Some weeks after, the creditor chanced to be in Boston, and in walking up Tremont street, encountered his enterprising friend.

  • During the first week, not a day passed without smart skirmishes.

  • "We will go to the Hotel de l'Europe, if you press it;" and away the cabriolet joggled over the roughly paved street.

  • While the door was open he caught a glimpse of the street outside—and of Glavis on the sidewalk below.

  • Then the two bodies of the men were buried, carrying them together from the street to the grave.