clever at understanding and making judgements about a situation 精明的；敏锐的；有眼光的；精于盘算的 a shrewd businessman 精明的商人 She is a shrewd judge of character. 她看人看得很准。 Paul was too shrewd to be taken in by this argument. 保罗太精明了，不会被这场争论所欺骗。
showing good judgement and likely to be right 判断得准的；高明的
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘evil in nature or character’): from shrew in the sense ‘evil person or thing’, or as the past participle of obsolete shrew ‘to curse’. The word developed the sense ‘cunning’, and gradually gained a favourable connotation during the 17th cent.