smart money 罚款, 抚恤金, (因掌握内情而下的)赌注
smart money[ noun ]- money bet or invested by experienced gamblers or investors (especially if they have inside information)
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- (law) compensation in excess of actual damages (a form of punishment awarded in cases of malicious or willful misconduct)
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- people who are highly experienced or who have inside information
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the smart money said Truman would lose the election
Smart \Smart\, a. [Compar. {Smarter}; superl. {Smartest}.] [OE.
smerte. See {Smart}, v. i.]
1. Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or
taste.
How smart lash that speech doth give my conscience.
--Shak.
2. Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain.
3. Vigorous; sharp; severe. ``Smart skirmishes, in which many
fell.'' --Clarendon.
4. Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly;
active; sharp; clever. [Colloq.]
5. Efficient; vigorous; brilliant. ``The stars shine
smarter.'' --Dryden.
6. Marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or
reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart
saying.
Who, for the poor renown of being smart
Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
--Young.
A sentence or two, . . . which I thought very smart.
--Addison.
7. Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.
8. Brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze.
{Smart money}.
(a) Money paid by a person to buy himself off from some
unpleasant engagement or some painful situation.
(b) (Mil.) Money allowed to soldiers or sailors, in the
English service, for wounds and injures received;
also, a sum paid by a recruit, previous to being sworn
in, to procure his release from service.
(c) (Law) Vindictive or exemplary damages; damages beyond
a full compensation for the actual injury done.
--Burrill. --Greenleaf.
{Smart ticket}, a certificate given to wounded seamen,
entitling them to smart money. [Eng.] --Brande & C.
Syn: Pungent; poignant; sharp; tart; acute; quick; lively;
brisk; witty; clever; keen; dashy; showy.
Usage: {Smart}, {Clever}. Smart has been much used in New
England to describe a person who is intelligent,
vigorous, and active; as, a smart young fellow; a
smart workman, etc., conciding very nearly with the
English sense of clever. The nearest approach to this
in England is in such expressions as, he was smart
(pungent or witty) in his reply, etc.; but smart and
smartness, when applied to persons, more commonly
refer to dress; as, a smart appearance; a smart gown,
etc.