cunning是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /a. 狡猾(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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His cunning was fresh with the day, and his qualms were gone with the night in which particulars it is not improbable that he had compeers in Fleet-street and the City of London, that fine morning.
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：
-- In the middle of the empty, endless hall of snow, was a frozen lake; it was cracked in a thousand pieces, but each piece was so like the other, that it seemed the work of a cunning artificer.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But why she had spoken of old Madame Vrede, whom she had to go and see, as she had to see many other people, she could not have explained; and yet, as it afterwards turned out, had she contrived the most cunning devices to meet Vronsky, she could have thought of nothing better.
-- In spite of all the cunning and ingenuity of the German steward, who would try to tempt him into purchases by making his original estimate always far larger than really required, and then representing to Vronsky that he might get the thing cheaper, and so make a profit, Vronsky did not give in.
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：
-- Well, then, sir' (Marmeladov suddenly gave a sort of start, raised his head and gazed intently at his lis-tener) 'well, on the very next day after all those dreams, that is to say, exactly five days ago, in the evening, by a cunning trick, like a thief in the night, I stole from Katerina Ivanov-na the key of her box, took out what was left of my earnings, how much it was I have forgotten, and now look at me, all of you!It's the fifth day since I left home, and they are look-ing for me there and it's the end of my employment, and my uniform is lying in a tavern on the Egyptian bridge.
-- Oh, the cunning of them!I should like to know one thing more: how far they were open with one an-other that day and night and all this time since?
-- But from some queer, almost animal, cunning he conceived the idea of hiding his strength and lying low for a time, pretending if necessary not to be yet in full possession of his faculties, and meanwhile listening to find out what was going on.
-- 'It must have been a cunning and practised ruffian!The boldness of it!The coolness!'
-- But I maintain that he is not cunning, not practised, and probably this was his first crime!The supposition that it was a calculated crime and a cunning criminal doesn't work.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Anything to equal the low cunning of hisvisage, and of his shadowless eyes, without the ghost of an eye-lash, I never saw.
-- It may beprofitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greedand cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, andoverreach themselves.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he looked at the fire, I thought I saw a cunning expression, followed by a half-laugh, come into his face.
-- "Pip," said Mr. Jaggers, laying his hand upon my arm, and smiling openly, "this man must be the most cunning impostor in all London."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There stood the bear, and he called the fox before him and said: 'Fox, you are the most cunning of all animals, you shall be general and lead us.'
-- So the cunning thief climbed up the tree, and brought away to his father the five eggs from under the bird; and it never saw or felt what he was doing, but kept sitting on at its ease.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He said, 'whoever understood the nature of Yahoos, might easily believe it possible for so vile an animal to be capable of every action I had named, if their strength and cunning equalled their malice.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her thoughtfulness baffled his cunning scrutiny.
-- But, to see it, he must have overleaped at a bound the artificial barriers he had for many years been erecting, between himself and all those subtle essences of humanity which will elude the utmost cunning of algebra until the last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.
-- He was not so honest, he was not so manly, he was not so good-humoured; he substituted cunning for their simplicity, and passion for their safe solid sense.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh most cunning Saknussemm; and I to be such a blockhead!"
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：
-- Strangely and blankly he looked at her, with the vague-ness of a child, but with the queer blank cunning of an old man.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The milliner who was not morose or hard-hearted, only newly insolvent was touched, took her in hand with goodwill, found her the most patient and earnest of pupils, and made her a cunning work-woman in course of time.
-- Other motes there were which showed him as a heavy, selfish, drifting Booby, who, having stumbled, in the course of his unwieldy jostlings against other men, on the discovery that to get through life with ease and credit, he had but to hold his tongue, keep the bald part of his head well polished, and leave his hair alone, had had just cunning enough to seize the idea and stick to it.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Now, Marmee, that is very cunning of you to turn our own stories against us, and give us a sermon instead of a ro-mance!'
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