| 单词 | shrewd |
| 释义 | shrewd 1. a. archaic < a shrewd and knavish spirit called Robin Goodfellow — Shakespeare > b. obsolete < an ant … is a shrewd thing in an orchard — Francis Bacon > 2. obsolete < shrewd words … improved into smart blows — Thomas Fuller > < thou wilt never get thee a husband if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue — Shakespeare > 3. a. obsolete b. < the ordeal of a situation shrewd as any that can happen to her sex in civilized life — George Meredith > 4. a. < a shrewd knock > < gives out shrewd galvanic shocks — R.L.Stevenson > < give you a shrewd kick in the wind — Punch > b. < a shrewd wind > < the first shrewd gust of a storm — S.H.Adams > 5. a. < shrewd observer > < shrewd design > < shrewd reply > < shrewd business sense > < shrewd appraisal of political maneuvers — W.A.Swanberg > b. < a shrewd operator — Irving Bacheller > c. < shrewd guess > < shrewd suspicion > < had a very shrewd idea where to look for her — Margery Allingham > d. < a shrewd eye > < an inspection of the shrewdest sort — Sarah O. Jewett > Synonyms: < could on occasions be surprisingly shrewd — she had a habit of seeing through people's words right down into their motives — Victoria Sackville-West > < he is shrewd, sharp, hard and acute, and he is, one believes, the greatest master of the art of publicity and propaganda to arise in this generation — Sidney Hyman > sagacious may connote wisdom, penetration, discernment, farsightedness and, above all, keen mature judgment < his strength was in his sagacious sifting of practical ideas from the mass of suggestions proffered by his contemporaries — T.D.McCormick > < a strategical withdrawal might have been sagacious here — C.H.Sykes > perspicacious may indicate unusual power to perceive or understand what is obscure or mysterious < these were the fundamental difficulties, but few men were perspicacious enough to appreciate them — Allan Nevins & H.S.Commager > < those blind spots which are found in the most perspicacious mortals — L.P.Smith > astute may indicate mature shrewd perspicacity with especially careful discretion, wise diplomacy, and calculated discernment < a masterpiece of calculated cajolery from an astute adventuress — J.C.Powys > < astute financiers who see in the large organization an easier mechanism for their manipulations of credit, for their inflation of capital values, for their monopolistic controls — Lewis Mumford > |
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