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。
Mark is a very shrewd and able man, and if you want a competent administrator I expect he's as good as they come.
马克是非常精明和有能力的人。如果你想要一个能干的管理人员，我认为马克是个极好的人选。
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。
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。
"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。
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。
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。
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。
Would it be beyond a philosopher's research, think ye, gentlemen, to analyse that child's nature, and, from its make and mould, to give a shrewd guess at the father?
先生们，请你们想一想，耍分析这孩子的天性，要根据她的体态和气质来对她的父亲作出聪明的猜测，是不是超出了哲学家的研究范畴了呢？
He was essentially a shrewd commanding officer.
他本质上是一位机敏的指挥官。
Even those shrewd enough to stick their money in a savings account have had to worry about the safety of the banks.
即使那些精明谨慎懂得把自己的钱锁在储蓄帐户的人也一直在担心银行会不会在某天关门溜之大吉。
The book is doing well in Chinese translation, albeit with a shrewd new title: “Being an American Mom.
这本书的中译本卖得很好，虽然书名被巧妙地改换为《我在美国做妈妈》。
The book is doing well in Chinese translation, albeit with a shrewd new title: "Being an American Mom."
这本书的中译本卖得很好，虽然书名被巧妙地改换为《我在美国做妈妈》。
You wanted me to be a shrewd lawyer-- oh, yes!
你们想我当个老奸巨猾的律师——嘿，对了！
Agatha Christie's fictional sleuth is often dismissed as scatterbrained, but she is actually a shrewd judge of character and harbors deep knowledge of the dark side of human nature.
阿加莎·克里斯汀塑造的这位侦探经常因为心不在焉被踢出局，但她实际上看人极准，并且深谙人性的阴暗面。
He recounts a tale filled with shrewd insights into their characters and conflicts told through verbatim accounts of their conversations.
他在小说中精心刻画了人物的性格，并通过真实转述人物的对话来表现各种冲突。
Her unthreatening exterior belied a sharp intelligence and a shrewd wit.
她构不成威胁的外表掩盖了睿智和精明。
Her unthreatening exterior belied a sharp intelligence and a shrewd wit.
她构不成威胁的外表掩盖了睿智和精明。
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