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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You remember, perhaps, that you were in full possession of your reason during this succession of fantastic images; even that you acted with extraordinary logic and cunning while surrounded by murderers who hid their intentions and made great demonstrations of friend-ship, while waiting for an opportunity to cut your throat.
-- One of the murderers suddenly changed into a woman before your very eyes; then the woman was transformed into a hideous, cunning little dwarf; and you believed it, and accepted it all almost as a matter of course while at the same time your intelligence seemed unusually keen, and accomplished miracles of cunning, sagacity, and logic!Why is it that when you awake to the world of reali-ties you nearly always feel, sometimes very vividly, that the vanished dream has carried with it some enigma which you have failed to solve?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the heavenly beings were disquieted throughout the house of Jove, till the cunning workman Vulcan began to try and pacify his mother Juno.
-- But first he summoned a meeting of the elders at the ship of Nestor king of Pylos, and when they were as-sembled he laid a cunning counsel before them.
-- With these words he moved the hearts of the multi-tude, so many of them as knew not the cunning counsel of Agamemnon.
-- It went right through this and through the cuirass of cunning workmanship; it also pierced the belt beneath it, which he wore next his skin to keep out darts or arrows; it was this that served him in the best stead, never-theless the arrow went through it and grazed the top of the skin, so that blood began flowing from the wound.
-- Near him also tarried cunning Ulysses, with his sturdy Cephalleni-ans round him; they had not yet heard the battle-cry, for the ranks of Trojans and Achaeans had only just begun to move, so they were standing still, waiting for some other columns of the Achaeans to attack the Trojans and begin the fight-ing.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path; for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant.
-- Parade Song of the Camp Animals ELEPHANTS OF THE GUN TEAMS We lent to Alexander the strength of Hercules, The wisdom of our foreheads, the cunning of our knees; We bowed our necks to service: they ne'er were loosed again, Make way there way for the ten-foot teams Of the Forty-Pounder train!
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：
-- 'A Mohawk!No, give me a Delaware or a Mohican for honesty; and when they will fight, which they won't all do, having suffered their cunning enemies, the Maquas, to make them women but when they will fight at all, look to a Delaware, or a Mohican, for a warrior!'
-- If I should go back to him, the cunning varmint would suspect something, and be dodging through the trees like a frightened deer.'
-- 'twas very natural!Come, friends, let us move our station, and in such fashion, too, as will throw the cunning of a Mingo on a wrong scent, or our scalps will be drying in the wind in front of Montcalm's marquee, ag'in this hour to-morrow.'
-- 'How can such a wish be doubted!Have I not already of-fered ' 'Offer your prayers to Him who can give us wisdom to circumvent the cunning of the devils who fill these woods,' calmly interrupted the scout, 'but spare your offers of mon-ey, which neither you may live to realize, nor I to profit by.
-- Besides, though the Delaware tongue is the same as a book to the Iroquois, the cunning varlets are quick enough at un-derstanding the reason of a wolf's howl.'
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：
-- He was dexterous to make him comfortable, and he exercised a cunning of which I should never have thought him capable to induce him to take the medicines prescribed by the doctor.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This was said with no appearance of cunning or deceit, but with an unsuspicious frankness that bore the impress of truth.
-- Indeed, the ugly creature contrived by some means or other whether by his ugliness or his ferocity or his natural cunning is no great matter to impress with a wholesome fear of his anger, most of those with whom he was brought into daily contact and communication.
-- But, while he was thus engaged, his caution and inquisitiveness did not forsake him, for with a face as sharp and cunning as ever, he often stopped, even in this short process, and stood listening for any conversation in the next room, of which he might be the theme.
-- Therefore, it was a relief to vex his heart with a picture of the riches the old man hoarded, and to expatiate on his cunning in removing himself even beyond the reach of importunity.
-- 'I'm as sharp,' said Quilp to him, at parting, 'as sharp as a ferret, and as cunning as a weazel.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Exclamations of consent and approbation continued to be heard, but the faces of the peasants became more and more grave, and the eyes that at first were fixed on the master were lowered, as if desiring not to shame him with the fact that his cunning was understood by all, and that he could not fool anybody.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And this the more surprised me, for I thought he had never shown himself so cunning as he did then.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Skill, coolness, audacity, and cunning he possessed in a superior degree, and it must be a cunning whale to escape the stroke of his harpoon.
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