shrewd

adjective

/ʃruːd/

(comparative shrewder, superlative shrewdest)

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，不会被这场争论所欺骗。
Topics Personal qualitiesc2
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。

词源Middle 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.

词汇	shrewd
释义	shrewd adjective /ʃruːd/ /ʃruːd/ (comparative shrewder, superlative shrewdest) 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，不会被这场争论所欺骗。 Topics Personal qualitiesc2 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。词源Middle 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.
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