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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - To lose the plot can mean either to become angry and/ or exasperated to a fault, or in a derogatory if slightly outdated sense to mean someone who has become irrational and/ or acting ridiculously.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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - "On the other hand, when the eyes are set too high up in the skull and too near the ears, it also amounts to a fault, the head being said to have a" foreign appearance.
其他方面，如果眼睛位置太高，太靠近耳朵，也属于有缺陷，称为“外国表情”。眼神应该显示出热情。 - 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。