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
- He's a very kind-hearted man, and generous to a fault.
他是一个心地很善良的人，但过分慷慨了。 - John carries thoroughness to a fault; he spends many hours writing his reports.
约翰花了太多的时间写报告，报告写得过份详细了。 - Complacent: Contented to a fault; self-satisfied and unconcerned.
自满的：对缺点的满意；自我满足且不关心。 - To lose the plot can mean either to become angry and/ or exasperated to a fault, or in a derogatory if slightly outdated sense to mean someone who has become irrational and/ or acting ridiculously.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。 - Generous to a fault, she took all her friends out for a lavish dinner.
她极为慷慨，请她所有的朋友出去吃了一顿丰盛的晚餐。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - He is tough to a fault is Joseph: but it's a great name, Sir.
不过这是个伟大的姓，先生。 - 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。