clever是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 聪明的， 伶俐的， 机敏的， 精巧的，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。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If a good thought passed through a man's mind, then a grin was seen in the mirror, and the sprite laughed heartily at his clever dis-covery.
-- 'In the kingdom where we now are there lives a Prin-cess, who is extraordinarily clever; for she has read all the newspapers in the whole world, and has forgotten them again so clever is she.
-- Before the garden there was a large iron railing with an iron door, it looked quite splendid, and people stood still and peeped in, and the sparrows hung by scores in the vine, and chattered away at each other as well as they could, but it was not about the old house, for they could not remember it, so many years had passed so many that the little boy had grown up to a whole man, yes, a clever man, and a pleasure to his parents; and he had just been married, and, together with his little wife, had come to live in the house here, where the garden was; and he stood by her there whilst she planted a field-flower that she found so pretty; she planted it with her little hand, and pressed the earth around it with her fingers.
-- The learned man from the cold lands he was a young man, and seemed to be a clever man sat in a glowing oven; it took effect on him, he became quite meagre even his shadow shrunk in, for the sun had also an effect on it.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of the clever people belonging to the set had called it "the conscience of Petersburg society."
-- Everything clever is so stale..." "That has been said long ago," the ambassador's wife interrupted him, laughing.
-- "She's found it!Isn't she a clever thing?"
-- "Come, really though," said the elder brother, with a frown on his handsome, clever face, "there's a limit to everything.
-- "I should be very glad if I had said it, for it's not only clever but true," said Anna, smiling.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Skilful detectives have been sent to all the principal ports of America and the Continent, and he'll be a clever fellow if he slips through their fingers."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am told that a great many clever people feel they can keep notes in their heads.
-- I tell people how clever I am.
-- He told Clif that he was going to write a book exposing idealism, but what he meant was that he was going to do something clever about his dual engagement.
-- She had heard rather too often the seven jokes which, under varying guises, made up all of Clif's humor and philosophy, but she could sit for hours looking amiable while Clif told how clever he was at selling, and she sturdily reminded Martin that they would never have a friend more loyal or generous.
-- The total number of his papers, in a brisk scientific realm where really clever people published five times a year, was not more than twenty-five in thirty years.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You know Dounia, of course; you know how clever she is and what a strong will she has.
-- I, of course, understood very little of it, but Dounia explained to me that, though he is not a man of great education, he is clever and seems to be good-na-tured.
-- 'But she is not very clever either, eh?
-- All his acquaintances found him tedious, but said he was clever at his work.
-- 'A man will commit a clever murder at the risk of his life and then at once he goes drinking in a tavern.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It appeared tome that he was more clever and cold than they were, and that theyregarded him with something of my own feeling.
-- 'Don't you think, if I had had her for a friend a long time ago,Doady,' said Dora, her bright eyes shining very brightly, and herlittle right hand idly busying itself with one of the buttons of mycoat, 'I might have been more clever perhaps?'
-- Blessyou, my little Minnie- my grand-daughter you know, Minnie'schild- puts her little strength against the back, gives it a shove, andaway we go, as clever and merry as ever you see anything!And Itell you what- it's a most uncommon chair to smoke a pipe in.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was not struck by any thing remarkably clever in Miss Smith's conversation, but she found her altogether very engaging not inconveniently shy, not unwilling to talk and yet so far from pushing, shewing so proper and becoming a deference, seeming so pleasantly grateful for being admitted to Hartfield, and so artlessly impressed by the appearance of every thing in so superior a style to what she had been used to, that she must have good sense, and deserve encouragement.
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