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Pb03 Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Too smart for ...

Hi guys,

When you hear a sentence below, what is your first impression/interpretation?

The wolvreine is very smart compared to other animals ?

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To other animals, the wolverine is too smart?

OR

Any idea would be welcomed.

pb

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"The wolverine is too smart for other animals."
  

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hi I'd interpret this as meaning that the wolverine is smarter than other animals and, therefore, that it succeeds in what it tries to do - hunting or stealing, I suppose.

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  • hi I'd interpret this as meaning that the wolverine is smarter than other animals and, therefore, that it succeeds in what it tries to do - hunting or stealing, I suppose.
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hi

I'd interpret this as meaning that the wolverine is smarter than other animals and, therefore, that it succeeds in what it tries to do - hunting or stealing, I suppose.
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I'm not a native, but my first impression about the first sentence is that wolverine is smarter than other animals.

But the second I have the impression that the other animals, think wolverine is smarter than them.
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Pb03: How about "Compared WITH other animals, the wolverine is very smart." = If you consider the intelligence of all the other animals, then a wolverine is No. l in brains. By the way, some native speakers say that you should use TO only if you want to say two things are similar: Tom compares his father TO his brother (they are both strong). But nowadays many native speakers don't care if you
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