She gave him a smartsmackon thebottom.她狠狠地在他屁股上打了一巴掌。
We'll have toworkat a smartpaceif we're going tofinishontime.如果我们要按时完成，就必须加快工作节奏。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Hurrying and doing things quickly
accelerate
acceleration
against the clockidiom
against time/the clockidiom
alacrity
bash
dash
get a wiggle onidiom
grab-and-go
grease
hacky
haste
precipitately
prompt
promptly
promptness
quickie
rattlesomethingoff
stroke
tear
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smartadjective(WORKING BY COMPUTER)
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A smartmachine,weapon, etc. usescomputersto make itworkso that it isabletoactin anindependentway:
（机器、武器等）智能的
Until theadventof smartweapons,repeatedattackswereneededtoensurethedestructionoftargets.在智能武器出现之前，为了摧毁目标必须对其进行反复的打击。
used to refer to amotorwayor otherroadon whichcomputersare used towatchtrafficandchangespeedlimits,closelanes, and showwarningsignsaccordingto theamountoftraffic:
What should you do if youbreakdown on a smartmotorway?
abbreviationforSpecific, Measurable, Agreed (or Achievable), Realistic, and Time Bound (or Timed): a phrase to say that theaimsof acompany,employee, etc. should bestatedinrelationto these things:
Of these, households with the largest living quarters and the smartest interior are preferred.
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I think he was smarting from a castigation he got the other day.
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If they are smarting under a grievance, how much more must ordinary people be smarting because of the grievances they feel?
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We have emerged after facing the people, a democracy that was smarting from cuts.
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Clearly, they are still smarting from their defeat on both counts.
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They have come with a grievance and a smarting under a sense of injustice very often against courts of summary jurisdiction.
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Still smarting somewhat from the last election, we take well and gratefully receive those remarks.
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There have been many complaints, particularly about smarting eyes and running noses caused by sulphuric acid spray from the cooling system.
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At the same time those of us who belong to the engineering industry are smarting under a grievance.
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As a result we shall be left high and dry, and people in various localities will be left smarting.
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A hungry populace, smarting under a sense of injustice, would continually have been a potential, and possibly an actual, source of danger to property.
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Are you going to embitter it by having the working classes smarting under an obvious injustice?
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His wounds were very quick; they smarted, but you recovered from them quickly.
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A man who could bear the blows of his enemies with equanimity must have smarted under such lashes from his countrymen.
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Nevertheless, we have put patriotism and loyalty to the war effort before the grievances under which the engineers are smarting.
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