(adj.) showing inventiveness and skill; 'a clever gadget'; 'the cunning maneuvers leading to his success'; 'an ingenious solution to the problem' .
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双语例句
I can only suppose now, that it was a part of his policy, as a very clever man, habitually to deceive his own instruments. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
They are all remarkably clever; and they have so many pretty ways. 简·奥斯汀.爱玛.
The strengtheners and the lowerers were all clever men in somebody's opinion, which is really as much as can be said for any living talents. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
How should you like to grow up a clever man, and write books, eh? 查尔斯·狄更斯.雾都孤儿.
She is not a clever girl, but she has better sense than you are aware of, and does not deserve to have her understanding spoken of so slightingly. 简·奥斯汀.爱玛.
But she's patienter than others would be, and is clever too, and always willing, up to the full mark of her strength and over. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
What original notions you clever men have! 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
Well, you be a clever lady! 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
It was about as clever as if a man brought home a hungry tiger to convince his wife of her need of him. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Besides, you are very clever, and I never was. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
He thought it very well done of Mr. Knightley to invite themvery kind and sensiblemuch cleverer than dining out. 简·奥斯汀.爱玛.
We are all scoundrels more or less, only some are cleverer at concealing it than other people, he said carelessly. 弗格斯·休姆.奇幻岛.
I am ten times cleverer than many men who pass. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
Inventors and discoverers came by nature, they thought, for cleverer people to profit by. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Be infinitely cleverer and not half so conceited. 简·奥斯汀.爱玛.
I am not prepared with any arguments to disprove them, and much better, cleverer fellows than I am go in for them entirely. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
But I am a just man even to my enemy, and I will acknowledge beforehand that they are cleverer brains than I thought them. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
For my own part, I like a medical man more on a footing with the servants; they are often all the cleverer. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
Cleverer heads than mine might have seen his drift. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
Every one knows you're a thousand times handsomer and cleverer than Bertha; but then you're not nasty. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Emma is spoiled by being the cleverest of her family. 简·奥斯汀.爱玛.
One, the cleverest and most celebrated among them, took me aside, and bidding me prepare for the worst, told me--me, the madman! 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
Young Stubble's eyes brightened up at this, for Dobbin was greatly respected in the regiment, as the best officer and the cleverest man in it. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
I took the best and cleverest man I had ever known, said Mrs. Garth, convinced that _she_ would never have loved any one who came short of that mark. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.