Cleverness

(n.) The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness.

录入:莉娜

• But as to listening to what one lawyer says without asking another--I wonder at a man o' your cleverness, Mr. Dill. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Celia had become less afraid of saying things to Dorothea since this engagement: cleverness seemed to her more pitiable than ever. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• There was too much cleverness in her apology: she was laughing both at her uncle and himself. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Happily she never attempted to joke, and this perhaps was the most decisive mark of her cleverness. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Solomon says there's great talk of his cleverness. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• She had never boasted either beauty or cleverness. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• His lordship's admiration for Becky rose immeasurably at this proof of her cleverness. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He would not believe in my total lack of popular cleverness; he thought I _could_ be prompt if I _would_. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• You don't believe in yourself and your own womanhood, so what good is your conceited, shallow cleverness--! 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Or he may have originated it altogether, if he had the cleverness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Sir James had no idea that he should ever like to put down the predominance of this handsome girl, in whose cleverness he delighted. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• If Miss Rebecca can get the better of him, and at her first entrance into life, she is a young person of no ordinary cleverness. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• What she liked to do was to her the right thing, and all her cleverness was directed to getting the means of doing it. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Miss Brooke was certainly very naive with all her alleged cleverness. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• But there was small cleverness in HIS keeping out of the way. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

手打:玛丽安