to a fault
英 [tu ə fɔːlt]
美 [tu ə fɔːlt]
(好得)过分,过头; (好得)过头
英英释义
adv
- to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
- too big
双语例句
- To lose the plot can mean either to become angry and/ or exasperated to a fault, or in a derogatory if slightly outdated sense to mean someone who has become irrational and/ or acting ridiculously.
所谓tolosetheplot可以指变得很生气或愤怒到了缺乏逻辑了,或者用于贬义可能有些过时了的意思表示某人没有理智、表现极为荒谬。 - Critics say that ICBC has been cautious to a fault, missing some potentially good opportunities.
批评人士指出,工行谨慎过度,错失了一些有潜力的优秀投资机会。 - At last the noise was traced to a fault in the pipes It is this failing which has produced a long saga of repeated recurrences following hernia operations.
最终发现嗓音是由管子里的一处缺陷所致。传统手术的这一缺陷导致了历经一个多世纪的,连续不断的疝复发。 - The Bush administration was accused of a martial unilateralism like none before it; the European Union appeared multilateralist to a fault, if not downright divided.
布什政府前无古人的军事单边主义受到指责;欧盟则似乎多边过头了,如果说不上彻头彻尾的分裂的话。 - His hospitality was great, almost to a fault, and he seldom came home without bringing a guest.
另外,他还是一个极其好客的人,这几乎成了他的一个性格弱点,他很少有不带客人回家的时候。 - "They were fine people: honest, industrious, and generous to a fault," declared the second traveler.
第二位旅客宣称:「他们都是好人,诚实、勤奋、以及对别人的错误很宽容。 - The syntax of the language is brief to a fault. You never have to type an unnecessary character, or even to use the shift key much.
语言本身的语法要极端简单扼要。让你无需键入多馀的字元,或是经常得来回切换大小写。 - Reading through the problems in this book, I think I come over as unsentimental to a fault.
读完本书中的种种问题,我想,我给人的印象可能过于冷静、理智,几乎已构成一种缺点。 - It is deliberate, fashioned by choices, generous to a fault; happy to put the other person's interests ahead of its own.
它是深思熟虑后的选择,是对过错的包容,是把对方的利益置于自己利益之上而心甘情愿的选择。 - Unassuming to a fault, skeptical about the value of his work; a shy retiring girl.
谦逊的对待错误,怀疑他的作品的价值;一个害羞而谦逊的女孩。
