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shrewd

adjective
🔊/ʃruːd/
🔊/ʃruːd/
(comparative shrewder, superlative shrewdest)
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  1. clever at understanding and making judgements about a situation精明的；敏锐的；有眼光的；精于盘算的 synonym astute
    • a shrewd businessman精明的商人
    • She is a shrewd judge of character.她看人看得很准。🔊🔊
    • Paul was too shrewd to be taken in by this argument.保罗太精明了，无法被这种论调所接受。
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  2. showing good judgement and likely to be right判断得准的；高明的
    • a shrewd move高招
    • I have a shrewd idea who the mystery caller was.这个神秘的来访者是谁，我能猜个八九不离十。🔊🔊
    • I could take a pretty shrewd guess at who had sent the letter.谁寄来的信，我能猜个八九不离十。
    3. Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘evil in nature or character’): from shrew in the sense ‘evil person or thing’, or as the past participle of obsolete shrew ‘to curse’. The word developed the sense ‘cunning’, and gradually gained a favourable connotation during the 17th cent.