shrewd
英検準1級抜け目ない・鋭い
意味
- (実際的な事柄に)鋭い,抜け目のない;洞察力のある
例文
He is shrewd and calculating.
彼はちゃっかりしている。
They are shrewd in trade.
彼らは商売に抜け目がない。
He may be a poor talker and far from shrewd, but I like him all the better for that.
彼は口下手で、お世辞にも要領がいいとは言えませんが、それだけかえって私は彼が好きなのです。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English schrewed (“depraved; wicked”, literally “accursed”), from schrewen (“to curse; beshrew”), from schrewe, schrowe, screwe (“evil or wicked person/thing”), from Old English sċrēawa (“wicked person”, literally “biter”). Equivalent to shrew + -ed. More at shrew. The sense of "cunning" developed in early 16ᵗʰ c., gradually gaining a positive connotation by 17ᵗʰ c.