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
- In addition, people who are ambitious and driven enough to become chief executives are forceful and self-confident to a fault.
此外,野心勃勃、有志当首席执行官的人,都是既强势又过于自信的人。 - To lose the plot can mean either to become angry and/ or exasperated to a fault, or in a derogatory if slightly outdated sense to mean someone who has become irrational and/ or acting ridiculously.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。 - He's lavish in his response to life and generous to a fault.
他对待生活慷慨大方,对待错误态度宽容。 - 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。 - 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。 - In this case, the destination machine cannot be reached due to a fault.
在这里,由于故障无法连接目的地机器。 - 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。 - Others will tell you that she is modest to a fault, funny, clever and warm.
别人会告诉你她有趣、聪明又热情,谦逊得过了头。 - 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。 - Tall and slender almost to a fault, she possessed in the highest degree the art of concealing this oversight of nature simply by the way she arranged the clothes she wore.
她身材颀长苗条稍许过了点分,可她有一种非凡的才能,只要在穿着上稍稍花些功夫,就把这种造化的疏忽给掩饰过去了。
