Front | shrewd |
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Pron | [ʃruːd] |
Back | 【SHREWD】 Although he had no formal education, he is one of the shrewd businessmen in the steel company. 虽然他没受过正式的教育,但他在钢铁公司是位精明的商人。 【重点词汇】 shrewd adj. 精明的 反: stupid |
Vocab | shrewdmarked by practical hardheaded intelligence
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. The word shrewd is from a Middle English adjective formed from the noun schrewe "an evil person, a villain." This Middle English noun is an earlier form of our modern English word shrew. So shrewd and shrew are related to each other. Shrewd doesn't usually have a disapproving or negative tone, but shrew certainly does. All forms of 'shrewd' will appear on average once every 325 pages. shrewd shrewdly shrewdness |
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