clever

詳細解釋：

clev.er

adj.（形容詞）
clev.er.er,clev.er.est
Mentally quick and original; bright.
聰明的，伶俐的：思維敏捷且有創造性的；聰明的
Nimble with the hands or body; dexterous.
靈敏的：手或身體敏捷的；靈敏的
Exhibiting quick-wittedness:
機智的，巧妙的：表現快速機智的：
例句：
a clever story.
機智的故事

New England Easily managed; docile:
【新英格蘭】 溫順的，聽話的：易於管理的；馴良溫順的：
例句：
.Oxen must be pretty clever to be bossed around the way they are.(Dialect Notes)
.牛必須要很馴服才能接受指揮.(方言注釋)

New England Affable but not especially smart.
【新英格蘭】 溫和的：友善但不是特別機敏的
Chiefly Southern U.S. Good-natured; amiable.See Regional Note at ugly
【多用於美國南部】 性情和順的：天性良好的；和善的參見 ugly

來源：
Middle English cliver ; akin to East Frisian klifer, klüfer
中古英文 cliver ；類似於 東弗里斯蘭語 klifer, klüfer
perhaps from klôfen [to gnaw apart, work assiduously]
可能源自 klôfen [咬開，工作勤勉的]
[of Low German origin] ; akin to Old Saxon klioban [to split, cleave] * see gleubh-
[源於日耳曼語] ；類似於 古撒克遜語 klioban [裂開，打通] *參見 gleubh-

【引伸】
clev.erly
adv.（副詞）
clev.erness
n.（名詞）
<參考辭彙><同義詞>clever,ingenious,shrewdThese adjectives are compared as they refer to mental adroitness or to practical ingenuity and skill.
這些形容詞在表示心地機智靈敏或實際的獨創性和能力上有所區別。
Clever, the most comprehensive,stresses mental quickness or adeptness:
Clever 極富理解力的，強調反應迅速或適應性強：
例句：
.If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people,I would say to myself,‘You`re the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation in the world,why should you be frightenedô’. (Beatrice Webb).
.一旦我進入充滿人的房間而感到膽怯時，我就會對自己說， ‘你是這個世界上最聰明國家的最聰明階層的最聰明家庭的最聰明成員，為什么你會被嚇著呢？’ （比阿特麗斯·韋伯）。

Ingenious implies originality and inventiveness:
Ingenious 表示有創造力和有創造性：
例句：
.an ingenious solution to the storage problem. (Linda Greider).
.解決貯藏問題的創造性辦法. （林達·格蕾德）。

Shrewd emphasizes mental astuteness and practical understanding:
Shrewd 強調精明及實際理解力：
例句：
.a woman of shrewd intellect and masculine character. (Leslie Stephen).
.具有精明的才智及男子氣概的婦女. （萊斯利·史蒂芬）

<注釋>In the 7th and 8th centuries,in addition to its basic sense of .able to use the brain readily and effectively,. the wordclever acquired a constellation of imprecise but generally positive senses in regional British speech: .clean-limbed and handsome,. .neat and convenient to use,. and .of an agreeable disposition..Some of these British regional senses, brought over when America was colonized,are still found in American regional speech,as in the South, whereclever can mean .good-natured, amiable,. in old-fashioned speech. The speech of New England extends the meaning .good-natured. to animalsin the specific sense of .easily managed, docile..Perhaps it was the association with animals that gave rise to another meaning, .affable but not especially smart,.applicable to people when used in old-fashioned New England dialects.
在7和8世紀時，clever 一詞除了其基本含義.能夠輕鬆、有效地用腦.外，還在英國方言中具有大量不準確但明確的含義， .身材勻稱且英俊倜儻.、.整潔有序且便於使用.和.令人愉快的個性.。英國方言中的一部分含義是美國被殖民統治時傳播開來，在美國方言中至今仍然可見，如在南部的舊式方言中，clever 可以表示.脾氣好的、和藹的.。 新英格蘭方言把.脾氣好的.意思拓展到動物，表示.易於管理的、溫馴的.的特定含義。可能因其與動物有關而導致另一含義.友善但不是特別機敏.的產生，適用於使用舊式新英格蘭方言的人
<注釋>Being too clever is thought to be unwise,and support for this popular notion may be afforded by the fact that the devil seems to have been the first .clever. one in English.The source of our wordclever is probably the Middle English word cliver, recorded only once in a work written before 250,in which it is said that the devil is .cliver on sinnes..This means something like .skillful in respect to sins..Cliver probably goes back to the Indo-European root gleubh-, .to cut, cleave.. Although the intermediate ancestry ofcliver is unclear, the semantic connection has to do with penetration or incisiveness—that is, cutting through to the heart of the matter,just as a woodcarver cuts through material in order to realize a certain vision.
太聰明被認為是愚蠢的，英文中魔鬼被認為是第一.聰明的.，這一事實可能是這一普遍概念的例證。clever 的詞源可能是中世紀英文單詞 cliver , 僅在一本250年以前寫的著作中出現過一次，書中說魔鬼.在犯罪方面很聰明.。這個含義有些類似於.在犯罪方面很有本事。.Cliver 可以追溯到印歐詞根 gleubh- .切、削.。 雖然cliver 的中介來源尚不清楚， 但語義的聯繫肯定與穿透力或透徹性有關--即穿透事物的本質，就象木工劈開材料以了解其內在材質