Reader's Digest 4月号の記事 'The Food on your Plate' からの引用です。
You also decoded the mystery of our juice. Our fresh-squeezd nectar actually becomes undrinkably bitter in less than a day's time. This was a persistent problem until World War II. Then some smarty-pants Army scientists, keen to protect troops from scurvy, offered a contract to anyone who made a portable, potable frozen orange juice rich in vatamin C.
"smarty-pants" は賢い人を連想しますが、辞書で確認します。
・Oxford English Dictionary: another term for smarty (sense 1): Try it out on the office know-it-all, or the smarty-pants next door.
・Collins Dictionary: smarty; a would-be clever person: Sooner or later some smarty-pants interviewer is bound to ask about this.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: someone who wants to appear to be clever: Okay, smarty-pants, you tell me how to do it.
You also decoded the mystery of our juice. Our fresh-squeezd nectar actually becomes undrinkably bitter in less than a day's time. This was a persistent problem until World War II. Then some smarty-pants Army scientists, keen to protect troops from scurvy, offered a contract to anyone who made a portable, potable frozen orange juice rich in vatamin C.
"smarty-pants" は賢い人を連想しますが、辞書で確認します。
・Oxford English Dictionary: another term for smarty (sense 1): Try it out on the office know-it-all, or the smarty-pants next door.
・Collins Dictionary: smarty; a would-be clever person: Sooner or later some smarty-pants interviewer is bound to ask about this.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: someone who wants to appear to be clever: Okay, smarty-pants, you tell me how to do it.
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