canny
adjective /ˈkæni/
/ˈkæni/
- 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.
他很精明，知道他们想陷害他。 - 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。
Collocations DictionaryCanny is used with these nouns:- buyer
- investor
词源late 16th cent. (originally Scots): from can (in the obsolete sense ‘know’) + -y. - a canny politician