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 canny ['kænɪ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 精明的, 谨慎的, 节约的

  1. He was canny, open0 handed, brisk, candid, and modest.
    译文:他为人大方,有生气,忠厚耿直,谦虚.
  2. Having gained political ties from canny surrenders, Mr Rong made sure he used them.
    荣毅仁凭借精明的上缴赢得了政治关系，然后他设法确保自己使用了这些关系。
  3. The canny manager has to be fully satisfied on both counts— the means and the end— before he makes a move.
    那位精明的经理只有在两方面—手段和目的—都感到完全满意的时候，才开始行动。


canny
cannier, canniest
[ adj ]
showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others
<adj.all>
a cagey lawyertoo clever to be sound


Canny \Can"ny\, Cannei \Can"nei\, a. [Cf. Icel. kenn skilled,
learned, or E. canny. Cf. {Kenn}.] [North of Eng. & Scot.]
1. Artful; cunning; shrewd; wary.

2. Skillful; knowing; capable. --Sir W. Scott.

3. Cautious; prudent; safe.. --Ramsay.

4. Having pleasing or useful qualities; gentle. --Burns.

5. Reputed to have magical powers. --Sir W. Scott.

{No canny}, not safe, not fortunate; unpropitious. [Scot.]

  1. Distasteful though it may be in its message and its strategies, "Bouncers" is nevertheless a tight, canny play, smartly staged by Ron Link and relentless in its drill-team assault on the audience.
  2. This child is guileless enough to be appalled by the war for which he is the pretext, yet canny enough to stay the hand of a determined assassin.
  3. Karoly Grosz, Hungary's new Communist Party leader, has built a reputation as a canny, pragmatic politician with a charisma not unlike that of his Soviet counterpart, Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
  4. L. Stanley Crane, the canny 71-year-old railroad veteran who led Consolidated Rail Corp. through a thousand mine fields to the private sector, now faces a new peril.
  5. But it will take a year or so to prove that the Chef & Brewer deal was as canny as its decision to get out of hotels and buy Center Parcs.
  6. Easy profits are out, the canny consumer is king.
  7. But it stood Mr Greenspan, a canny political operator, in good stead.
  8. Much of the improvement came from strong housing association business. The only area of decline was in the urban renewal division, where sales fell from 375 to 366. COMMENT This is a careful, but canny, company.
  9. BBC1 shows a repeat episode of Lovejoy (8.00), the series about a canny antique dealer.
  10. His old company survived only two years after Sir Phil sold out at a Pounds 70m profit, showing just what a canny salesman he is.
  11. A canny purchaser of product portfolios Medeva certainly seems to be, but it is too soon to judge the company as a developer of new products.
  12. Yet Emap has proved to be a canny operator.
  13. There are only a few merchant banks. The financial sector exploits the perception that Scots are canny and trustworthy in handling money.
  14. In 1967, in a typically canny move, Koc sought out the government-owned sugar beet factory as a partner.
  15. Mr Kita, who took the helm in 1983, was widely regarded as a canny investor ,particularly after he correctly weakening in 1985.
  16. Each has already matched canny purchases with tough cost cutting and has kept shareholders happy.
  17. He has built a reputation as a canny investor, usually buying and selling at the right time.
  18. But they have masked the workings of a canny political operator who appears to have forced ministers to accept a local government structure very different from the one they envisaged. The principles Sir John has applied can be seen in his earlier career.
  19. But while this approach strikes many as a canny solution to the need for more and better child care, it has also given rise to some critical questions.
  20. SIXTY YEARS OLD and now the newest store in town, trumpets the advertisement for Uptons department store in Redcar, which reopens its doors today after refurbishment. Uptons' canny shoppers will find the keenly-priced offers they expect.
  21. Ron Atkinson, their manager, has bought a string of canny veterans, comfortable with the ball at their feet, happy to work unrelentingly for the team.
  22. Thanks to Alfred Wopmann's canny stewardship these past ten years, the Bregenz Festival stood out as an example of how to mix art and commerce.
  23. Nigeria have been breathtaking at times, but against Argentina they were out-manoeuvred, and the canny Italians will provide an equally severe test of their tactical sophistication. Yet Italy must answer some questions themselves.
  24. So how do these canny US hedge funds, which have been increasingly recognised as a powerful force in the world's financial markets, devise their trading strategies? Well, from the current US edition of Penthouse for starters.
  25. 'We need a specialist spinner, a canny one prepared to really use the ball, bowl it up and give it air.
  26. Moreover Mr Lang, 53, is canny enough to realise that being addressed in such a manner by a cheeky adolescent is a small price to pay for his success in the popularity polls. Pomposity is not one of Mr Lang's failings.
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