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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I felt they expected me to say clever things, and I never could think of any till after the party was over.
-- I wanted no one to take notice of me, so that I could observe these famous creatures at my ease and listen to the clever things they said.
-- I could imagine her sedately busy among her pots and pans, making a ritual of her household duties, so that they acquired a moral significance; I did not suppose that she was clever or could ever be amusing, but there was something in her grave intentness which excited my interest.
-- He never said a clever thing, but he had a vein of brutal sarcasm which was not ineffective, and he always said exactly what he thought.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had one-of those finely- developed heads which appear made to be struck on a medal, piercing eyes, a serious mouth, the physiognomy of a clever man of the military school.
-- The hurricane was in all its violence, it is true, but so clever and daring an engineer as Cyrus Harding knew perfectly well how to manage a balloon.
-- "I hope so," replied the engineer, "provided you and Pencroft, my boy, show yourselves quick and clever hunters."
-- "Perhaps," replied the engineer, "but we will begin by first manufacturing some bows and arrows, and I don't doubt that you will become as clever in the use of them as the Australian hunters."
-- Gideon Spilett, Herbert, Neb, and Pencroft, skillfully directed by the engineer, had become most clever workmen.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He said what he did because he's a fool, and you said what you did because you're very wise and clever almost too clever to live, unless you're very careful of yourself, Kit.'
-- They're all done by one hand; a little hand it is, not so old as yours, but a very clever one.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes he looked at her as through blinking eyes or by moonlight, and then she seemed to him beautiful, fresh, pretty, clever and natural.
-- Nekhludoff was one of these friends, not only because he was considered a clever young man, but also because his mother was a close friend of the family and he was a desirable match for Missy.
-- It was a clear case, but the prosecutor, as he did yesterday, raised his shoulders and propounded subtle questions which were calculated to entrap the clever criminal.
-- Ragojhinsky was a man without reputation or fortune, but a clever fortune hunter, who, by skillful manoeuvering between liberalism and conservatism, availing himself of that dominating tendency which promised bitter results in life, but principally by something peculiar which attracted women to him, he succeeded in making a relatively brilliant judicial career.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.
-- Things that would have made the fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It isn't manners for us to begin, you know,' said the Rose, 'and I really was wondering when you'd speak!Said I to myself, "Her face has got some sense in it, though it's not a clever one!"
-- 'You seem very clever at explaining words, Sir,' said Alice.
-- In fact,' he went on, holding his head down, and his voice getting lower and lower, 'I don't believe that pudding ever was cooked!In fact, I don't believe that pudding ever will be cooked!And yet it was a very clever pudding to invent.'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he was too deep, and too ready, and too clever for me, and by the time the two men had come back out of breath and confessed that they had lost the track in a crowd, and been scolded like thieves, I would have gone bail for the innocence of Long John Silver.
-- "She seems a clever craft; more I can't say."
-- 23 The Ebb-tide RunsHE coracle as I had ample reason to know before I was done with her was a very safe boat for a person of my height and weight, both buoyant and clever in a seaway; but she was the most cross-grained, lop-sided craft to manage.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My cook is a clever fellow, who excels in dressing these various products of the ocean.
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