Translation for 尚且つ context sentence

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I’ve read this a few times and it doesn’t seem right. Did WaniKani translate this correctly?

彼女は、美しく、尚且つ頭も良いが、性格は悪い。
She’s beautiful, smart, and yet she has a terrible personality.

I think it should be:
“She’s beautiful and yet smart, but has a terrible personality.”

I think the implied meaning is that it’s surprising that she’s both beautiful and smart hence the “and yet.” However, despite those good things she unfortunately has a bad personality. In the WK translation, “and yet” seems to be imply it’s surprising that this person has a bad personality and the “が” seems to be forgotten.

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It’s literally “She’s beautiful, and furthermore she’s smart”. That’s what the 尚且つ means there.

Definition #1 in Jisho

Definition #2 in the monolingual dictionary

The “and yet” is from the が in this sentence.

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That makes sense. “And yet” being one of the WK definitions definitely threw me off.

Thanks for the explanation.

Edit: through → threw …>_<

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Ah, yeah, this falls under the “besides” alternative meaning, and then they used “and yet”…

Might still be worth emailing them, because it doesn’t really capture the meaning the way it’s translated.

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Sent. We’ll see what happens. Thanks again.

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