People often think the parable of the Shrewd Manager (or Unjust Steward) is difficult to understand.

人们常常觉得精明管家的比喻十分的难以理解。

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The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light.

主人就夸奖这不义的管家做事聪明，因为今世之子，在世事之上，较比光明之子更加聪明。

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Known more as a shrewd political manager rather than as an innovative policy-maker, Ms Gillard is herself a product of this polls-centric polity.

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Appointed a life peer in the House of Lords, she held junior ministerial posts before becoming leader of the upper house of Parliament, a big job with cabinet status, where she earned a reputation as a shrewd political manager.

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Abraham Lincoln, he shows, was a shrewd, almost devious manager of human talent who was able to deploy his generals in ways that played to their strengths and neutralised their weaknesses.

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