耍小聰明（帶貶意）
從「可愛」翻面：本來逗人喜歡的小聰明，用過頭、用來佔便宜時，就變成令人討厭的「自作聰明」。
too clever, tricky · adjective · B2
Clever in a way that tries to trick people or get an advantage, and can seem a bit rude or annoying.
耍小聰明
核心畫面
You can think of 'cute' as the warm little 'aww' you feel at something small, sweet, and charming — a puppy, a baby, a tiny thing that makes you want to smile and protect it.
可以想成看到某個小小的、甜甜的、惹人疼的東西時，心裡那聲「啊～好可愛」的感覺——小狗、嬰兒、小巧的東西，讓你忍不住想…更多收起
可以想成看到某個小小的、甜甜的、惹人疼的東西時，心裡那聲「啊～好可愛」的感覺——小狗、嬰兒、小巧的東西，讓你忍不住想微笑、想呵護。這就是 cute 的核心畫面。From the picture
Also in this word
adorable · adjective · A2
Pretty and nice to look at in a small, sweet way, often used for babies, small animals, or little things.
可愛
attractive · adjective · B1
Good-looking in a way that you find attractive, used especially about a person you like.
帥 / 可愛
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cuteadj/kjuːt/
- 1
Possessing physical features, behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals; e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.
- Our reaction to cute attributes is understood as the way nature ensures mammals care for their young.
- 2
Lovable, charming, attractive or pleasing, especially in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way.
- Let's go to the mall and look for cute girls.
- 3
Sexually attractive or pleasing; gorgeous.
- He's got such cute buns.
- I ordered her to strip for me and made her wiggle her cute little ass as she took off her panties.
- 4
Affected or contrived to charm; mincingly clever; precious; cutesy.
- The actor's performance was too cute for me. All that mugging to the audience killed the humor.
- Don't get cute with me, boy!
- 5
Mentally keen or discerning (See also acute)
- Then Turpin being so very cute, He hid his money in his boot.
- 'Filled with old doddering peers, cute financial magnates, clever wirepullers, big brewers with bulbous noses. All the enemies of progress are there — weaklings, sleek, slug, comfortable, self-important individuals.
- 6
mathematicssciencesEvincing cleverness; surprising in its elegance or unconventionality (but of limited importance).
- There's a cute alternative proof of this using lambda calculus.
- Cute solution to pin one Knight by unpinning the other and so force discovered guard for the Bishop: it took me hours to find that Bishop key.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。