他总是喜欢在小事上耍小聪明。

He always likes to show cleverness in trivial matters.

把代码写清楚——不要耍小聪明而把代码写得太过“巧妙”。

Write clearly - don't be too clever.

她在耍小聪明。

She is being witty.

在他们眼里，除了与钱有关的东西以外，就没有有价值的东西了，他们大都是耍小聪明的人。

They are excellent entrepreneurs, have few values other than those connected with money and are mostly street-wise.

政治界形成了一种毁灭性的决策机制，它低级狡猾而又自相矛盾，善于算计，善于耍小聪明，无视公共利益。

This creates a very destructive decision rule which manifests itself as a low cunning that is paradoxically good at calculating at playing for baubles while oblivious to the destruction real value.