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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Captain Dillon, a shrewd old Pacific sailor, was the first to find unmistakable traces of the wrecks.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'They sometimes go to see Mr Quilp,' said the small servant with a shrewd look; 'they go to a many places, bless you!'
-- This is, beyond question, a bold and presumptuous doubt, inasmuch as many distinguished characters, called men of the world, long-headed customers, knowing dogs, shrewd fellows, capital hands at business, and the like, have made, and do daily make, this axiom their polar star and compass.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During a recess the same old lady from whom the ingenious attorney managed to win her property in favor of his shrewd client, came out of the court-room.
-- Behind the old lady, beaming in his wide-open vest, and with a self-sufficient smile on his face, came that same famous lawyer who so managed the case that the lady with the large flowers lost all her property, while his shrewd client, who paid him ten thousand rubles, received over a hundred thousand.
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