intelligent, careful and showing good judgement, especially in business or politics（尤指在商业或政治方面）精明谨慎的，老谋深算的- a canny politician老谋深算的政治家
- a canny move一步妙棋
- He was canny enough to see that they were trying to trap him.他精明到足以看出他们正试图诱捕他。
- Her opponent proved to be more canny than she’d thought.结果证明她的对手比她所想的更老谋深算。
- It was a canny move, which brought Palmer in on their side.这真是一步妙棋，让帕尔默站到了他们一边。
Topics Personal qualitiesc2Oxford Collocations DictionaryCanny is used with these nouns: See full entry Word Originlate 16th cent. (originally Scots): from can (in the obsolete sense ‘know’) + -y.