Sharper

(n.) A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester.

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• He smelled the odor of the pine boughs under him, the piney smell of the crushed needles and the sharper odor of the resinous sap from the cut limbs. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• He'd be sharper than a serpent's tooth, if he wasn't as dull as ditch water. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I have felt something sharper than cold. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Had his brain unfolded under sharper contours they would have said, A thoughtful man. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The Spaniards built these watchtowers on the hills to enable them to keep a sharper lookout on the Moroccan speculators. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I never saw a sharper lad. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• She was always dangling and ogling after him, I recollect now; and I've no doubt she was put on by her old sharper of a father. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The mice have gnawed at it, and sharper teeth than teeth of mice have gnawed at me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The edges of the lower mandible are serrated with teeth much more prominent, coarser and sharper than in the duck. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• They thus make a sharper shadow than when radiating from the more extended surface of the glass. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• One would have the sails trimmed sharper than another, so that they seemed to have no certain rule to govern by. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• And now sharper feelings came shooting through her heart, whether pain or pleasure she could hardly tell. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• I say you are a--a---- A man sharper than my neighbour. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Yes, a man sharper than my neighbour; a regular sharper! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He is beset by sharpers: John is sunk and degraded--his look is frightful--I feel ashamed for him when I see him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

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