crafty
crafty 英 [ˈkrɑ:fti] 美 [ˈkræfti]
adj. 狡猾的；灵巧的
比较级:craftier 最高级:craftiest
- If people call you crafty, they probably mean you are sly and a little deceptive. Then again, they could be saying that you are really good at knitting, beading, and turning old t-shirts into funky pillowcases.
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- adj. 狡猾的；灵巧的
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1. But base and crafty cowards, are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.
不过卑怯而狡猾的懦夫则往往想要暗中施放的冷箭。
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2. Over the years many of these crafty critters have figured out how to dodge the antibiotics we use to kill them, usually by chewing the drugs up and spitting ‘em out.
多年以来，这些狡猾的小东西找到了如何躲避我们用来消灭它们的抗生素，也就是常见的吃掉药并排泄掉。
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3. Background: crafty criminals have used undergroundtunnels to commit all sorts of crimes, including bank robberies anddrug smuggling.
背景材料: 狡猾的罪犯利用地下隧道犯下的各种罪行，包括银行劫案和毒品走私。
- crafty (adj.) mid-12c., crafti, "skillful, clever, learned," from Old English cræftig "strong, powerful," later "skillful, ingenious," acquiring after c. 1200 a bad sense of "cunning, sly, skillful in scheming," the main modern sense (but through 15c. also "skillfully done or made; intelligent, learned; artful, scientific"); see craft (n.) + -y (2). Perhaps to retain a distinctly positive sense, Middle English also used craftious as "skillful, artistic" (mid-15c.). Related: Craftily; craftiness.
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