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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The amazing, the profound, the unbelievable thrill there was in passionately talking to some really clever young man by the hour, resuming day after day for months...this they had never realized till it happened!
-- Anyhow he was blacksmith to the cavalry in Egypt for a time; always was connected with horses, a clever fellow that way.
-- Connie realized that his so-called genius was just this: a perspicuous talent for per-sonal gossip, clever and apparently detached.
-- He began to experiment, and got a clever young fellow, who had proved brilliant in chemistry, to help him.
-- The house was not impregnable: he was as clever as burglars are.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Then stand up against them!She's awful clever, and none but a clever one durst say a word to her.
-- He's a clever one oh, he's a clever one! and he gives it her when he has a mind to't, he does!'
-- What can he be but a clever one to do that!'
-- If them two clever ones have made up their minds to it, what's left for me to do?
-- Oh!he's a clever one!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Very clever were some of their productions, pasteboard guitars, antique lamps made of old-fashioned butter boats covered with silver paper, gorgeous robes of old cotton, glittering with tin spangles from a pickle factory, and armor covered with the same useful diamond shaped bits left inn sheets when the lids of preserve pots were cut out.
-- 'Yankees have a trick of being generous to their enemies,' said Jo, with a look that made the lad redden, 'especially when they beat them,' she added, as, leaving Kate's ball un-touched, she won the game by a clever stroke.
-- Miss Kate put up her glass, and, having taken a survey of the little tableau before her, shut her sketch book, say-ing with condescension, 'You've a nice accent and in time will be a clever reader.
-- The girls is clever and fly round right smart.
-- He is handsome, young, clever enough, and very rich ever so much richer than the Laurences.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "My captain, you must have ere this perceived, respected sir" said the imperturbable godly-looking Bunger, slightly bowing to Ahab "is apt to be facetious at times; he spins us many clever things of that sort.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had gone out to dinner; but his 'prentice (which is a very clever lad) sent 'em some medicine in a blacking-bottle, offhand.'
-- 'Clever dogs!Clever dogs!Staunch to the last!Never told the old parson where they were.
-- 'You're a clever boy, my dear,' said the playful old gentleman, patting Oliver on the head approvingly.
-- Stopped at last!A clever blow.
-- The old lady made a respectful inclination of the head, which seemed to say that she thought the doctor was a very clever man.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lady Lucas was a very good kind of woman, not too clever to be a valuable neighbour to Mrs. Bennet.
-- She rated his abilities much higher than any of the others; there was a so-lidity in his reflections which often struck her, and though by no means so clever as herself, she thought that if encour-aged to read and improve himself by such an example as hers, he might become a very agreeable companion.
-- 'And yet I meant to be uncommonly clever in taking so decided a dislike to him, without any reason.
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