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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Ah, precious document," he added, with perfect NAIVETE, "you must own you have fallen into the hands of uncommonly shrewd people."
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When many are got together, you can be guided by him whose counsel is wisest and sorely do we need shrewd and prudent counsel, for the foe has lit his watchfires hard by our ships.
-- And King Agamemnon answered, 'Menelaus, we both of us need shrewd counsel to save the Argives and our ships, for Jove has changed his mind, and inclines towards Hec-tor's sacrifices rather than ours.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The shirt-sleeve planted a shrewd blow in Hall's face that stopped his open-armed advance, and sent him backward into old Toothsome the sexton, and in another moment the garment was lifted up and became convulsed and vacantly flapping about the arms, even as a shirt that is being thrust over a man's head.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is unnecessary to repeat the shrewd manner with which the scout extracted these particulars from the simple Da-vid; neither shall we dwell in this place on the nature of the instruction he delivered, when completely master of all the necessary facts; as the whole will be sufficiently explained to the reader in the course of the narrative.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have a recollection of large, unbending women with great noses and rapacious eyes, who wore their clothes as though they were armour; and of little, mouse-like spinsters, with soft voices and a shrewd glance.
-- I don't think that Alec could have something on his mind for a year or more without my having a pretty shrewd idea of it."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Ah!But then they'll have taken 'em for a fortnight certain,' replied the child with a shrewd look; 'and people don't like moving when they're once settled.'
-- Everybody said he was a very shrewd doctor indeed, and knew perfectly what people's constitutions were; which there appears some reason to suppose he did.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Banks, I know, are always suspicious, and officially must be,' said the stranger, whose lightness and smoothness of speech were pleasant likewise; suggesting matter far more sensible and humorous than it ever contained which was perhaps a shrewd device of the founder of this numerous sect, whosoever may have been that great man: 'therefore I may observe that my letter here it is is from the member for this place Gradgrind whom I have had the pleasure of knowing in London.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is a very shrewd and worthy man, with whom you will be pleased.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sobs, snuffles, a fist taken from a blubbered face, and ablack shrewd eye cast for a second on the sixpence.
-- She heard him with his pit managers, with the members of his Board, with young scientists, and she was amazed at his shrewd insight into things, his power, his un-canny material power over what is called practical men.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had so many places and people to recall, and they were all so easy and cheerful together (Daniel Doyce either sitting out like an amused spectator at cards, or coming in with some shrewd little experiences of his own, when it happened to be to the purpose), that they might have been together twenty times, and not have known so much of one another.
-- Oh, shrewd people, Mr Clennam: evidently people of business!I believe Miggles belonged to a Bank.
-- The more he pursued it, and the oftener he glanced at the grey head bending over it, and the shrewd eye kindling with pleasure in it and love of it instrument for probing his heart though it had been made for twelve long years the less he could reconcile it to his younger energy to let it go without one effort more.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He reluctantly departs, but his wrongs weigh upon his spirit, and by-and-by when an opportunity comes to re-dress them, he outwits Mamma by a shrewd bargain.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'No,' said the doctor, with a very shrewd and satisfied look.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The vulgar freedom and folly of the eldest left her no recommendation, and as Elinor was not blinded by the beauty, or the shrewd look of the youngest, to her want of real elegance and artlessness, she left the house without any wish of knowing them better.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was shrewd and clever in many little things, and capable of creating a good impression.
-- Drouet was not shrewd enough to see that this was not tactful.
-- He was too shrewd not to realise the tremendous mistake he had made, and appreciate that he had done well in getting where he was, and yet he could not help contrasting his present state with his former, hour after hour, and day after day.
-- He was shrewd after his kind, and yet there was enough decency in the man to stop him from making any effectual protest.
-- Something of the old Hurstwood was here-- the least shadow of what was once shrewd and pleasant strength.
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