shrewd是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 敏锐的, 精明的; 准确的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Firstly, because, on fine Sundays, he often walked out, be-fore dinner, with the Doctor and Lucie; secondly, because, on unfavourable Sundays, he was accustomed to be with them as the family friend, talking, reading, looking out of window, and generally getting through the day; thirdly, be-cause he happened to have his own little shrewd doubts to solve, and knew how the ways of the Doctor's household pointed to that time as a likely time for solving them.
-- 'Now, look here!I am going to tell you something that will rather surprise you, and that perhaps will make you think me not quite as shrewd as you usually do think me.
-- But, in the composure of his manner he was unaltered, except that to the shrewd glance of Mr. Lorry it disclosed some shadowy indication that the old air of avoidance and dread had lately passed over him, like a cold wind.
-- 'All curious to see,' thought Mr. Lorry, in his amiably shrewd way, 'but all natural and right; so, take the lead, my dear friend, and keep it; it couldn't be in better hands.'
-- Of a strong and fearless character, of shrewd sense and readiness, of great determination, of that kind of beauty which not only seems to impart to its possessor firmness and animosity, but to strike into others an instinctive recognition of those qualities; the troubled time would have heaved her up, un-der any circumstances.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Betsy said all this, and, at the same time, from her good-humored, shrewd glance, Anna felt that she partly guessed her plight, and was hatching something for her benefit.
-- On meeting Anna Karenina, as he was Alexey Alexandrovitch's enemy in the government, he tried, like a shrewd man and a man of the world, to be particularly cordial with her, the wife of his enemy.
-- This shrewd man's flattering words, the naive, childlike affection shown her by Liza Merkalova, and all the social atmosphere she was used to,-- it was all so easy, and what was in store for her was so difficult, that she was for a minute in uncertainty whether to remain, whether to put off a little longer the painful moment of explanation.
-- Levin saw proofs of this in his dress, in the old-fashioned threadbare coat, obviously not his everyday attire, in his shrewd deep- set eyes, in his idiomatic, fluent Russian, in the imperious tone that had become habitual from long use, and in the resolute gestures of his large, red, sunburnt hands, with an old betrothal ring on the little finger.
-- Chapter 27 "If I'd only the heart to throw up what's been set going...such a lot of trouble wasted...I'd turn my back on the whole business, sell up, go off like Nikolay Ivanovitch...to hear La Belle Helene," said the landowner, a pleasant smile lighting up his shrewd old face.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I maintain," said Stuart, "that the chances are in favour of the thief, who must be a shrewd fellow."
-- "If he is as shrewd as I think he is, consul, he will come."
-- Was this conviction shaken by Phileas Fogg's return, or did he still regard him as an exceedingly shrewd rascal, who, his journey round the world completed, would think himself absolutely safe in England?
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They thus received surprisingly large sums, and among all clever people it was believed that they were too coyly shrewd to be sincere.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this rough clothing, with a commonmariner's telescope under his arm, and a shrewd trick of castingup his eye at the sky as looking out for dirty weather, he was farmore nautical, after his manner, than Mr. Peggotty.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, you need not think more of that: perhaps you did not mean to be rude to me by speaking out your mind: indeed, I believe you did not," said the shrewd woman, in painfully innocent earnest.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am very glad to see you," she said, but there was something in her manner that a shrewd observer would have taken as a hint to depart.
-- "You are very dull, my lord Marquis," said Vautrin, with one of the shrewd glances that seem to read the innermost secrets of another mind.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mammy emerged from the hall, a huge old woman with the small, shrewd eyes of an elephant.
-- He was sixty years old and his crisp curly hair was silver-white, but his shrewd face was unlined and his hardlittle blue eyes were young with the unworried youthfulness of one who has never taxed his brain with problems moreabstract than how many cards to draw in a poker game.
-- Shrewd man that he was, he knew that it was no less than a miracle that he, anIrishman with nothing of family and wealth to recommend him, should win the daughter of one of the wealthiest andproudest families on the Coast.
-- His clearhand, his accurate figures and his shrewd ability in bargaining won their respect, where a knowledge of literature and afine appreciation of music, had young Gerald possessed them, would have moved them to snorts of contempt.
-- She was proud of Gerald and what he hadaccomplished unaided except by his shrewd Irish brain.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was, more-over, very shrewd and clever; and the miller was so proud of her, that he one day told the king of the land, who used to come and hunt in the wood, that his daughter could spin gold out of straw.
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