出处:按学科分类—语言、文字 中国对外翻译出版公司《汉英成语词典》第65页(214字)
指幼年时代聪明过人,长大后却未必好,例他小时虽然很聪明,但长大之后却无所事事,一事无成,不过是小时了了罢了。
Though very bright as a child,he now loafs and does nothing-whoever would have thought he’d end up like this!