an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments
例句
Allen is a wiseacre who hears the grass grow. 艾伦是个自作聪明的人,对什么事都非常敏感。
Jack is a wiseacre who hears the grass grow. 杰克是个自作聪明的人,对什么事都非常敏感。
Couric: “Did you tell them you're a bit of a wiseacre? 你有没有告诉他们你有那么些自以为是?
Look down upon those arrogant and selfish and wiseacre men. 狠狠的鄙视自以为是的''帅''男.
Such sayings themselves grow harder and adhere more firmly with age, and it would take many blows with a trowel to clean an old wiseacre of them. 这种话的本身也愈经久而愈牢固了,必需用瓦刀一再猛击之,才能粉碎它,使一个自作聪明的老人不再说这种话。
Some wiseacre has said that a genius is a man who "wears long hair, eats queer food, lives alone, and serves as a target for the joke makers." 有些自作聪明的人说,天才是“留长发、吃奇怪的食物、独居的人,是说笑话的人调侃的对象”。