Old English scearplice "acutely, keenly; painfully, severely; attentively, quickly;" see sharp (adj.) + -ly (2). Old English also had adverbial form scearpe "sharply."
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. She was thin and spare, with a sharply intelligent face.
她又高又瘦，一副精明過(guò)人的模樣。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
2. In early trading in Tokyo, the dollar fell sharply against the yen.