intelligent, careful and showing good judgement, especially in business or politics (尤指在商业或政治方面)精明谨慎的,老谋深算的 a canny politician 老谋深算的政治家 a canny move 一步妙棋 He was canny enough to see that they were trying to trap him. 他很精明,知道他们想陷害他。 Her opponent proved to be more canny than she’d thought. 结果证明她的对手比她所想的更老谋深算。 It was a canny move, which brought Palmer in on their side. 这真是一步妙棋,让帕尔默站到了他们一边。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryCanny is used with these nouns:- buyer
- investor
Word Originlate 16th cent. (originally Scots): from can (in the obsolete sense ‘know’) + -y.