For example, lawyers are shrewd and dishonest is a popular stereotype.
例如，律师精明且不诚实是一个普遍的刻板印象。
He was a shrewd and wealthy businessman.
他是个精明富有的商人。
However shrewd a businessman is, it is impossible that he has never lost money.
再精明的生意人也不可能从不亏钱。
He was a shrewd and wealthy businessman, but most people in the town hardly knew anything about this side of his life.
他是个精明能干、有钱的商人，但镇上大部分人对他生活中的这一个方面几乎一无所知。
她是一个精明的商人。
He is a very shrewd operator with an incisive mind.
他是一位非常精明的经营者，有着敏锐的头脑。
The president has played a shrewd diplomatic game because from the outset he called for direct talks.
总统玩了一场精明的外交游戏，因为从一开始他就要求进行直接对话。
He was a shrewd lawyer with a talent for uncovering paper trails of fraud.
他是个精明强干的律师，能从一连串文件中找出诈骗的蛛丝马迹。
She is a shrewd judge of character.
她看人看得很准。
I have a shrewd idea who the mystery caller was.
这个神秘的来访者是谁，我能猜个八九不离十。
"She’s a shrewd woman," said Dr. Craven, putting on his coat.
“她真是个聪明的女人。”克雷文医生边说边穿上大衣。
There was a queer mixture of crabbed tenderness and shrewd understanding in his manner.
他的性格很古怪，坏脾气中又夹杂着一丝温柔和善解人意。
A shrewd reply that tells us exactly nothing.
回答的话真巧妙，使人坠入五里雾中。
That would be welcome in itself—as a shrewd lawyer would no doubt be as quick to point out as a sharp economist.
它本身将是受欢迎的——正如一个狡猾律师必定会像一个尖锐的经济学家一样，被迅速地指出来。
His skill in negotiating earned him a reputation as a shrewd tactician.
他的谈判技巧使他赢得了精明战略家的名声。
Allowing them to tap the credit line may be a shrewd precautionary measure.
允许它们突破信贷额度或许是一个精明的防范措施。
She is also a shrewd business tycoon, a modern woman of all-around talent.
她同样也是一个精明的商业大亨，拥有全面智慧的现代女性。
That is probably a shrewd legal strategy, but it is unlikely to help Mr Murdoch much in the court of British public opinion.
那也许是一个精明的法律策略，但是面对英国舆论的指控之一方法并不可能帮助他太多。
But he is also a tough and shrewd negotiator.
但他是个很难对付的人，是位精明的谈判家。
这是一个精明的策略。
That last part - "according to his ability or achievement" -is the tempering phrase, a shrewd bit of expectations management.
文章的最后部分，“根据他的能力和成就”——是一个比较有弹性的词，意味需要一点管理的精明。
The office will be headed by Pieter Feith, a shrewd Dutch diplomat.
该机构由一个精明的荷兰外交官皮尔特•菲斯领导。
But according to Dr Dean, the shrewd females have worked out a way of dealing with this tactic as well.
但是据迪安博士说，精明的雌禽也有对付这种战术的方法。
He whanged his son a shrewd one yesterday.
他昨天狠狠打了他儿子一下。
On the contrary, they found a shrewd formula to accommodate one another.
相反，他们找到了一个精明的方式来适应对方。
"No shrewd user" of a biological weapon "is going to give you that opportunity," he warned.
“没有一个精明的生物武器使用者会给你那个机会，”他警告说。
This is also shrewd: the poor do not care about his achievements as a diplomat and globaliser, which scarcely impinge on their lives.
这也很精明，因为穷人可不管他作为外交家和全球化者所取得的成绩，这些对他们的生活影响甚小。
他是个精明的政客。
他是个精明的政客。
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