Acute

(adj.) having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course; 'acute appendicitis'; 'the acute phase of the illness'; 'acute patients' .

(adj.) of critical importance and consequence; 'an acute (or critical) lack of research funds' .

(adj.) extremely sharp or intense; 'acute pain'; 'felt acute annoyance'; 'intense itching and burning' .

(adj.) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; 'an acute observer of politics and politicians'; 'incisive comments'; 'icy knifelike reasoning'; 'as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang'; 'penetrating insight'; 'frequent penetrative observations' .

(adj.) of an angle; less than 90 degrees .

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• Her feelings were very acute, and too little understood to be properly attended to. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• I am a blind, weak fool, and you are acute and sensible, Shirley. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Perdita's questions had ceased; she leaned on my arm, panting with emotions too acute for tears--our men pulled alongside the other boat. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Some of my suffering is very acute. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Lily smiled also: his words were too acute not to strike her sense of humour. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• They were very acute persons, those sons of Asclepius. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• That is one of Mr. Steffens's most acute observations. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Statesmanship would go out to meet a crisis before it had become acute. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Her voluptuous, acute apprehension of him made the blood faint in her veins, her mind went dim and unconscious. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Who feels injustice; who shrinks before a slight; who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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