The shrewdest producers have realised that this profusion of spin-offs opens up a new approach to storytelling.

最机敏的制片人已经认识到，丰富多彩的衍生剧开辟了一种叙事新途径。

As a matter of fact the holiest of men have been some of the shrewdest, for their friends at least, if not for themselves.

事实上，最神圣的的人群某种意义上又是最精明的，如果不为自身，至少为他们的朋友。

Summoning one of his shrewdest ministers, Count d'Argenson, the king asked him whether he could diplomatically unsnarl the traffic jams.

他召来手下一位十分精明的大臣阿尔让松伯爵，问他有没有办法圆滑的解决交通阻塞。

One of her shrewdest moves was to divide the job of deputy secretary into two, with James Steinberg focusing on policy and Jack Lew on management.

希拉里最精明的一招就是把副国务卿职务一分为二：詹姆斯•斯坦伯格负责政策制定，杰克•卢负责管理工作。

The industry's shrewdest move was to defuse a barrage of cases brought by individual states, aiming to reclaim the cost of treating sick smokers.

烟草业所走的最精明的一着棋则是，它就各州接踵而至提起、旨在要求抵偿烟民治病用度的诉讼与各州达成了让步。

But the clear, the honest, the transparent - they seem to me the shrewdest silent men: those whose profundity is so deep that even the clearest water does not - betray it.

然而最聪明的，是那些诚实，心灵纯洁的人，再透明的水也揭示不了他们的秘密。（因为他们明白勾心斗角无非是自己为难自己罢了。）

Seeing that they could no longer rely on their machinery for income, goblins embraced commerce and began their storied history as the world's finest and shrewdest tradesmen.

由于他们无法再依赖于他们的机器来获得收入，地精们改为经营商业，并开始了他们作为世界上最好最精明的商人的历史。