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intelligent; clever; bright / acute (of sight and hearing)
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(literary) acute (of hearing) / (bound form) clever; intelligent; sharp
intelligence and ability
smart; intelligent
(idiom) bright; clever; quick-witted
to go deaf; to lose one's hearing / deafness; hearing loss
bright; intelligent
bright; sharp; quick-witted
(idiom) to think oneself clever
sharp ears and keen eyes (idiom) / keen and alert / perceptive
(idiom) even the wisest can have a momentary lapse in judgment; every man has a fool in his sleeve
(idiom) a clever person may become the victim of his own ingenuity; cleverness may overreach itself; too smart for one's own good
clever-clever / clever in trivial matters / sharp but petty-minded
highly intelligent; brilliant
(idiom) exceptionally intelligent
to get smart / to resort to petty tricks
highly intelligent; brilliant
wise after the event (idiom); with hindsight, one should have predicted it
if one is too calculating, it will be the cause of one's own undoing (famous line in "A Dream of Red Mansions" 紅樓夢|红楼梦)
too clever by half; excessive ingenuity


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