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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'So many clever riddles as there used to be when he was young he wondered he could not remember them!but he hoped he should in time.'
-- You and Mr. Elton are one as clever as the other.
-- Emma only nodded, and smiled. After a little thinking, and a very tender sigh, he added, 'Ah!it is no difficulty to see who you take after!Yourdear mother was so clever at all those things!If I had but her memory!But I can remember nothing; not even that par-ticular riddle which you have heard me mention; I can only recollect the first stanza; and there are several.
-- And he is a very clever boy, indeed.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I never was very clever in my inside.
-- Though old, he was clever and trustworthy still.
-- Can play so clever that 'a can make a psalm tune sound as well as the merriest loose song a man can wish for."
-- "He's a clever man, and 'tis a true comfort for us to have such a shepherd," murmured Joseph Poorgrass, in a soft cadence.
-- "We hear that ye be a extraordinary good and clever man, shepherd," said Joseph Poorgrass with considerable anxiety from behind the maltster's bedstead, whither he had retired for safety.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Surely a clever and high-spirited young man, whose wit and courage were set off to advantage by a graceful figure and the vigorous kind of beauty that readily strikes a woman's imagination, need not despair of finding a protectress.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She is very clever and gentle and extremely pretty; as I mentioned before, her mien and her expressions continually remind me of my dear aunt.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their clever remarks sent her into merry peals of laughter and,inspired by the thought that she considered them a remarkable pair, they fairly outdid themselves.
-- She teased him and favored him and asked him questions and answered themherself, so that he appeared very clever without having to say a word.
-- "The man is too clever with cards to be a gentleman.
-- They fell into a clever girl's hand just like the ripe peaches at Tara when the trees were gently shaken.
-- And lotsof times, after one kiss they fell completely in love with a girl and made most entertaining spectacles of themselves,provided the girl was clever and withheld her kisses after the first one.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I can only suppose now, that it was a part of his policy, as a very clever man, habitually to deceive his own instruments.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Still, his eyes were sharp and sparkling, and he soon showed himself to be a clever little fellow, who always knew well what he was about.
-- said he, 'what a clever wife I have!I sent you to make the house fast, and you take the door away, so that everybody may go in and out as they please how-ever, as you have brought the door, you shall carry it about with you for your pains.'
-- 190 Grimms' Fairy Tales CLEVER ELSIE here was once a man who had a daughter who was Tcalled Clever Elsie.
-- At length a man came from a distance and wooed her, who was called Hans; but he stipulated that Clever Elsie should be really smart.
-- Then Clever Elsie took the pitcher from the wall, went into the cellar, and tapped the lid briskly as she went, so that the time might not appear long.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hans is a very clever fellow, and I have reason to believe that he has saved the greater part of the cargo.
-- The clever and patient hunter had succeeded in lighting the lantern; and though, in the keen and thorough draft, the flame Flickered and vacillated and was nearly put out, it served partially to dissipate the awful obscurity.
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