单词 | clever |
释义 | clever adj. (cleverer, cleverest)   1. skilful, talented; quick to understand and learn.   2. adroit, dextrous.   3. (of the doer or the thing done) ingenious, cunning. Phrases and idioms clever Dick (or clogs etc.) colloq. a person who is or purports to be smart or knowing. not too clever Austral. colloq. unwell, indisposed. Derivatives cleverly adv. cleverness n. Etymology: ME, = adroit: perh. rel. to CLEAVE(2), with sense 'apt to seize' |
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