He has been extraordinarily fortunate or clever, whichever is the right word.

他一直格外幸运或者特别聪明, 不管是其中的哪一个。

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"Sharp" meant genuinely discerning, alert, acute rather than quick-witted or clever.

“Sharp”的意思是真正具有辨识力、警觉、敏锐，而不是机敏或聪明。

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I'm not being figurative or clever here.

我在这里并不是纸上谈兵或者自作聪明。

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Adam and Eve are naked, arum, which is the same word for clever or shrewd, and the snake is arum, he's clever and shrewd: there are lots of little puns of this kind.

亚当和夏娃是赤裸的是聪明,或者机灵的意思，蛇也是聪明的意思：,有很多类似的双关语。

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You could look at what it does but babies are not very coordinated or skilled so you need to use clever methods.

你可以观察婴儿,但婴儿不怎么配合,或者说他们的言语技能并不熟练,所以你必须要用精巧的方法才能做到

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Does he really think problems can be wished away through denial or clever press-secretary spin?

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No fancy or clever name is needed for this Portland, Maine, beer fest that's simply called The Festival.

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If we all lived in fear that our links or funny pictures or clever videos could get us or the site we were socializing on taken offline, how would we interact online at all?

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