'Mr Racksole,' was the grim reply, 'what has become of your shrewdness - that shrewdness which has made your fortune so immense that even you cannot calculate it? Do you not perceive that the roof which habitually shelters all the force, all the authority of the world, must necessarily also shelter nameless and numberless plotters, schemers, evil-doers, and workers of mischief? The thing is as clear as day - and as dark as night. Mr Racksole, I never know by whom I am surrounded. I never know what is going forward.英文原著 · 《The Grand Babylon Hotel》
"Ah, that's what I should like to know, and I mean to find her sooner or later. I know a man named Clarke, a dry fellow, in fact a man of business, but shrewd enough. You understand my meaning; not shrewd in the mere business sense of the word, but a man who really knows something about men and life. Well, I laid the case before him, and he was evidently impressed. He said it needed consideration, and asked me to come again in the course of a week. A few days later I received this extraordinary letter."英文原著 · 《The Great God Pan》
The detective bowed. "The deuce," thought he, "the old justice is shrewd - as shrewd as I am. Well, I like him, and I'm going to give him a surprise."英文原著 · 《The Mystery of Orcival》
Shrewd indeed are they, their virtues have shrewd fingers. But they lack fists: their fingers do not know how to creep behind fists.英文原著 · 《Thus Spake Zarathustra》
"Thou art a shrewd debtor!" said the abb-ot; "Sir justice, drink to me! What dost thou here," said the abb-ot, "But thou hadst brought thy pay?"英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
Excellent! What Rachel has shrewdly observed here...美剧 · 《Friends》
…to Ed Chen for his shrewd call, both to invest in this and make you lead.美剧 · 《Sillicon Valley》
We have a lot of leverage. Richard is a shrewd negotiator, and I'm, you know, spirited.美剧 · 《Sillicon Valley》
And he is ambitious,he's shrewd,he's'competitive,he's hot,he's...美剧 · 《Ugly Betty》