cleverness是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 聪明， 机灵，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Like most clever crim- inals, he may be too confident in his own cleverness and imagine that he has completely deceived us.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You wish perhaps to boast of the cleverness of your investigation, to cry up your talents as detective?
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He recalled his own criticisms of Tyndall of his complacent satisfaction in the cleverness of his experiments, and for his lack of philosophic insight.
-- "Yes, you want pluck for it, and cleverness too, especially when they stop all of a sudden, or someone falls down."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- III After the first daze of white tile and bustling cleverness at the Rouncefield Clinic, Martin had the desire to tie up a few loose knots of his streptolysin research.
-- We've heard so much about your cleverness from Dr. Gottlieb that I'm almost afraid to welcome you, Dr. Arrowsmith, but I do want to."
-- In his cups, though he severely retained his moral and elegant vocabulary, Clif chronicled the jest of selling oil-wells unprovided with oil and of escaping before the law closed in; the cleverness of joining churches for the purpose of selling stock to the members; and the edifying experience of assisting Dr. Benoni Carr to capture a rich and senile widow for his sanitarium by promising to provide medical consultation from the spirit-world.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The first attempts were somewhat crude, but in consequence of the cleverness and intelligence of the workmen, by consulting, and recalling the models which they had seen, and by emulating each other, the possessions of the colony were soon increased by several baskets of different sizes.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "His cleverness in his calling may have tempted him astray, and what is mirth to the neighbours is ruin to the woman.
-- There had originally been shown by the agent to the estate some distrust of Bathsheba's tenure as James Everdene's successor, on the score of her sex, and her youth, and her beauty; but the peculiar nature of her uncle's will, his own frequent testimony before his death to her cleverness in such a pursuit, and her vigorous marshalling of the numerous flocks and herds which came suddenly into her hands before negotiations were concluded, had won confidence in her powers, and no further objections had been raised.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Ah!Don't be hard upon the Barnacles,' said Gowan, laughing afresh, 'they are darling fellows!Even poor little Clarence, the born idiot of the family, is the most agreeable and most endearing blockhead!And by Jupiter, with a kind of cleverness in him too that would astonish you!'
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