shrewd
/ʃɹuːd/ 形容词 C1中文： 精明、狡猾
- Showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters.
- Artful, tricky or cunning.
- streetwise, street-smart.
- Knowledgeable, intelligent, keen.
- Nigh accurate. · a shrewd guess
- Severe, intense, hard. · a shrewd blow, or assault
- Sharp, snithy, piercing. · a shrewd wind
比较级 shrewder · 最高级 shrewdest
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They were generally shrewd judges of men; and thought better of their own judgment than they did of useless conventions.
The boy dropped the suit-case and stared at him with wondering, shrewd eyes.
What a starved, unloved life she had had--a life of drudgery and poverty and neglect; for Marilla was shrewd enough to read between the lines of Anne’s history and divine the truth.
I have good hopes of managing it through my own arrangements; but it is a thing which needs delicate handling, for we have a shrewd and desperate man to deal with, who is supported, as I have had occasion to prove, by another who is as clever as himself.
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