shrewdness

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality of being shrewd. countable,uncountable
    — A man with less worldly shrewdness would never have seen how things really stood; a man with less pliability could never have adapted himself to them. It must always be remembered, that his whole administration was one long struggle: he had to maintain his master on the throne, and himself in the ministry; and this was done by sheer force of talent.
  2. An invented collective name for a group of apes. countable,uncountable

词形变化

shrewdnesses plural

词源

Etymology tree
English shrewd
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English shrewdness
From shrewd + -ness.
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