Cunning
['kʌnɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) crafty artfulness (especially in deception).
(adj.) attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness; 'a cute kid with pigtails'; 'a cute little apartment'; 'cunning kittens'; 'a cunning baby' .
整理:米莉--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Knowing; skillful; dexterous.
(a.) Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, cunning work.
(a.) Crafty; sly; artful; designing; deceitful.
(a.) Pretty or pleasing; as, a cunning little boy.
(a.) Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.
(a.) The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill or dexterity; deceit; craft.
校對:塔玛拉
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Crafty, artful, sly, astute, subtle, wily, shrewd, sharp, designing, intriguing, deceitful, TRICKY, crooked, diplomatic, Machiavelian.
n. Craft, art, shrewdness, artifice, deceit, duplicity, subtlety, intrigue.
艾布拉姆編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
[See CRAFT]
杰夫編輯
解釋/意思:
adj. knowing: skilful: artful: crafty.—n. knowledge: skill: faculty of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose: artifice.—adv. Cunn′ingly.—n. Cunn′ingness quality of being cunning: artfulness slyness.
亚历克斯編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of being cunning, denotes you will assume happy cheerfulness to retain the friendship of prosperous and gay people. If you are associating with cunning people, it warns you that deceit is being practised upon you in order to use your means for their own advancement.
錄入:斯科特
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: 'The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses. '
錄入:莫拉
例句/造句/用法:
- If a man of my cunning cannot circumvent this dull-headed— Cautious. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Her thoughtfulness baffled his cunning scrutiny. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- I know I ain't as cunning as you are,' replied Charlotte; 'but don't put all the blame on me, and say I should have been locked up. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Yet I am of opinion, this defect arises chiefly from a perverse, restive disposition; for they are cunning, malicious, treacherous, and revengeful. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my elbow. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- After that proof of your horrible falseness and cunning, I tore up my letter. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- His very smile was cunning, as if he had been studying smiles among the portraits of his misers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- THAT was due to the folly of Robert, and the cunning of his wife; and it was earned by them before many months had passed away. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- They're a deal too cunning to be found out. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Confusedly in response to that demand, bold men, wise men, shrewd and cunning men were arising to become magicians, priests, chiefs, and kings. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Pip, said Mr. Jaggers, laying his hand upon my arm, and smiling openly, this man must be the most cunning impostor in all London. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- With your usual happy mixture of cunning and audacity, you have got him. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- One never knows what she has, sir: she is so cunning: it is not in mortal discretion to fathom her craft. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- His superior intelligence and cunning permitted him to invent a thousand diabolical tricks to add to the burdens of Tublat's life. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
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