intelligent, careful and showing good judgement, especially in business or politics (尤指在商業或政治方面)精明謹慎的,老謀深算的 a canny politician 老謀深算的政治家 a canny move 一步妙棋 He was canny enough to see that they were trying to trap him. 他很精明,知道他們想陷害他。 Her opponent proved to be more canny than she’d thought. 結果證明她的對手比她所想的更老謀深算。 It was a canny move, which brought Palmer in on their side. 這真是一步妙棋,讓帕爾默站到了他們一邊。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryCanny is used with these nouns:- buyer
- investor
Word Originlate 16th cent. (originally Scots): from can (in the obsolete sense ‘know’) + -y.