| 单词 | clever |
| 释义 | clev·er I. 1. < clever with the gloves > 2. < you are a clever man, … you reason well, and your wit is bold — Bram Stoker > < through the porcelain … a clever artisan had thrust a rivet — Elinor Wylie > often < too clever to be sound — Van Wyck Brooks > < an exercise in clever film-making without ever striking fire as a film — Arthur Knight > 3. < a clever poem > < his judgments were wise rather than clever — James Hilton > < applauded his clever sparkling speech > 4. now dialect a. < wasn't looking too clever — Thomas Wood †1950 > b. < a right clever horse > c. < a clever spade > 5. now chiefly dialect < a sweet craft, trim, staunch, and clever to handle — S.H.Adams > : satisfactory, pleasing < clever land for farming > — a generalized expression of approval 6. dialect < good clever man — Elizabeth M. Roberts > Synonyms: < curiously clever at all kinds of things … a sort of impromptu conjuring, making fifteen matches set fire to each other like a regular firework — G.K.Chesterton > < “who invented the story — you or her?” “He did, monsieur. He was very clever. He thought of everything” — Dorothy Sayers > < Austin was not clever like Adrian; he seldom divined other people's ideas and always went the direct road to his object — George Meredith > adroit suggests shrewd and wily or alert and agile expedients < the cool prudence, the sensitive selfishness, the quick perception of what is possible, which distinguish the adroit politician — J.R.Green > < 'tis said he could shave himself with the axe — so all adroit … does he work and play at once — Robert Browning > cunning may apply to high creative skill or low guileful craft < he knew how … to construct a plot, he was cunning in his manipulation of stage effects — T.S.Eliot > < it is, of course, possible that a cunning man might change the tire of his bicycle in order to leave unfamiliar tracks — A. Conan Doyle > ingenious suggests brilliant or notable inventiveness and resourcefulness < the batteries being kept recharged by an ingenious device — Dorothy Sayers > < the ingenious Yankee, quick to adapt himself everywhere, easily extricating himself from situations — Matthew Josephson > Synonym: see in addition intelligent. II. 1. now dialect < treated him real clever — Willa Cather > 2. dialect Britain < you must go clever through the city > < the dog jumped clever over the hedge > |
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