shrewd
shrewd 英 [ʃru:d] 美 [ʃrud]
adj. 精明的；高明的；判断得准的
比较级:shrewder 最高级:shrewdest
- If you are shrewd in your spending, you can make a small salary go a long way. Use the adjective shrewd to describe a person or thing that is smart or clever in a practical sort of way.
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- adj. 精明的；高明的；判断得准的
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1. a shrewd businessman
精明的商人
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2. She is a shrewd judge of character.
她看人看得很准。
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3. a shrewd move
高招
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4. I have a shrewd ideawho the mystery caller was.
这个神秘的来访者是谁，我能猜个八九不离十。
- shrewd (adj.) c. 1300, "wicked, evil," from shrewe "wicked man" (see shrew). Compare crabbed from crab (n.), dogged from dog (n.), wicked from witch (n.). The sense of "cunning" is first recorded 1510s. Related: Shrewdly; shrewdness. Strutt's "Sports and Pastimes of the People of England" (1801) has a shrewdness of apes for a company or group of them. Shrewdie "cunning person" is from 1916.
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