Wiseacre

['waɪzeɪkə] or ['waɪzekɚ]

(v.) A learned or wise man.

(v.) One who makes undue pretensions to wisdom; a would-be-wise person; hence, in contempt, a simpleton; a dunce.

埃菲编辑

n. Witling, DUNCE, ignoramus, pretender to wisdom.

博妮塔校对

n. one who pretends to wisdom without grounds a simpleton quite unconscious of being such.

亚伯整理

When anything marvellous occurs in real life, wiseacres shake their heads, and say, Wonderful! 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
Wiseacres will at once say Impossible! 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.

道格拉斯校对