shrewdness
英
美
网络 机灵; 城府; 精明; 精明的
BNC.32717 / COCA.29132
英英释义
noun
- intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)
双语例句
- What matters in the long run is whether our rulers hope to gain more from the folly of men, or from their independence of judgement and their shrewdness of mind.
长期起重大作用的是：我们的统治者是希望从人们的愚蠢之中，而不是从人们的独立判断和敏锐思想之中，获得更多的东西。 - 'And a passage home?' he added, with a look of great shrewdness. "Perhaps," said the other, winking shrewdly.
还让我坐船回去？他又精明地问。也许吧，'对方精明地眨了一下眼睛说道。 - People without the Taurus energy running through them, lack the shrewdness and possessiveness to really profit from this life, especially in the financial or material sense.
没有金牛座的能量加持的人，此生都会缺乏心机和对获取报酬的执念，特别是在对于物质财富的天赋。 - A Soviet leader of proven shrewdness and prescience ( Joyce Carol Oates) See Usage Note at prove
一位被公认为精明而有预见力的苏联领导人（乔伊丝卡罗尔奥茨）参见 - The structure of the novel is exquisitely deft, the characterization in the highest degree memorable, while the irony has a radiant shrewdness unmatched elsewhere.
这部小说结构精致灵巧，人物描写令人难忘，讽刺出其不意。 - She had a round, highly colored face in which was combined good-natured shrewdness and the habit of command.
她的脸圆圆的，面色较深，流露出和善精明而习惯于指挥别人的神情。 - Relating to or having characteristics ( eloquence, shrewdness, swiftness, thievishness) attributed to the god Mercury.
具有墨丘利神所具备的善辩、精明、敏捷和鬼祟特点。 - In his time, the old gentleman was a working mason, and had risen form the ranks more, I think, by shrewdness than by merit.
那时，这老头儿只不过是个泥瓦工罢了。他之所以发迹，我认为靠的是精明的而不是业绩。 - But Sun Yumin, one of the founders of a Shanghai-based bartering website, and Li` s friend, believes successful bartering calls for "a special talent"-a combination of a salesman` s persuasiveness and a collector` s shrewdness.
作为上海某易物网的创始人之一，李女士的朋友孙玉敏（音译）认为成功易物需要具备特殊才能&要兼具销售员的好口才和收藏家的精明。 - On the other hand one can easily imagine his remark about that insidious and crafty animal vulgarly called statesman or politician being repeated today, reflecting the same Scottish shrewdness.
另一方面，我们不难想象，他有关狡猾的动物即世俗所谓政治家或政客的言论在今天也依然适用，这同样反映出苏格兰人的精明圆滑。