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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Robert had been clever enough to bring down several brace of HILGUEROS, small green and yellow birds, which are excellent eating, and greatly in demand in the Montevideo market.
-- ‘He is a clever fellow, this Ben Joyce,' said the blacksmith.
-- They are very clever and experienced in cookery.
-- "It is really a very clever plan," said Glenarvan.
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：
-- We are dealing with a clever man, Watson.
-- A clever man upon so delicate an errand has no use for a beard save to conceal his features.
-- 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：
-- The eldest was musical, while the second was a clever artist, which fact she had con-cealed until lately.
-- 'Yes, that wasn't a clever remark,' said Alexandra.
-- Hippolyte is an extremely clever boy, but so prejudiced.
-- You see, excellency, all the world is witty and clever except myself.
-- Now, could I, a Ferdishenko, be allowed to sit shoulder to shoul-der with a clever man like Afanasy Ivanovitch?
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They drank at the tanks and made the water all muddy, and then they fought over it, and then they would all rush to-gether in mobs and shout: 'There is no one in the jungle so wise and good and clever and strong and gentle as the Ban-dar-log.'
-- The priest was a clever man, and he knew that Messua was wife to the richest villager in the place.
-- Petersen Sahib came in on his clever she-elephant Pud-mini; he had been paying off other camps among the hills, for the season was coming to an end, and there was a native clerk sitting at a table under a tree, to pay the drivers their wages.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I myself saw him caged in Ty, with all his host; for your Frenchers, when they have done a clever thing, like to get back, and have a dance, or a merry-making, with the women over their success.'
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Like half the rest of the world, if more than half there be that are clever and good, Marianne, with excellent abilities and an excellent disposition, was neither reasonable nor candid.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A clever companion--had she ever had one-- would have warned her never to look a man in the eyes so steadily.
-- He was shrewd and clever in many little things, and capable of creating a good impression.
-- She was more clever than he.
-- When Hurstwood called, she met a man who was more clever than Drouet in a hundred ways.
-- "I count that clever playing for a beginner."
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's a most amaz'n' good idea, duke you HAVE got a rattlin' clever head on you,' says the king.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, clever as I am, I can earn a lot of money.
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