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
- The syntax of the language is brief to a fault. You never have to type an unnecessary character, or even to use the shift key much.
语言本身的语法要极端简单扼要。让你无需键入多馀的字元，或是经常得来回切换大小写。 - Critics say that ICBC has been cautious to a fault, missing some potentially good opportunities.
批评人士指出，工行谨慎过度，错失了一些有潜力的优秀投资机会。 - 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。 - 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。 - Pilots were trying to repair a fault in the plane when it crashed
飞行员正在试图排除飞机故障的时候，飞机坠毁了。 - "They were fine people: honest, industrious, and generous to a fault," declared the second traveler.
第二位旅客宣称：「他们都是好人，诚实、勤奋、以及对别人的错误很宽容。 - 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。 - Generous to a fault, he was noted for his hospitality.
他非常慷慨，以其好客而出名。 - To lose the plot can mean either to become angry and/ or exasperated to a fault, or in a derogatory if slightly outdated sense to mean someone who has become irrational and/ or acting ridiculously.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。