| 词汇 | savant |
| 语种 | 英语、汉语、英汉翻译、汉英翻译 |
| 释义 | savant noun[ C ] formaluk /ˈsæv.ənt/ us /sævˈɑːnt/ a person with a high level of knowledge or skill, especially someone who is less able in other ways: （尤指在其他方面缺乏能力的）博学之士，学者，专家 There are musical savants who are very awkward physically - until they sit at the piano.有些音乐专家平时举止显得不自然，但一旦坐在钢琴面前就大不一样。 Experts and specialists academician artist authority boffin child prodigy doyenne know something inside outidiom lapidary Latin Americanist literati maven Renaissance man semiotician skilled smart money sports scientist whizz wonder wonderkid wunderkind Examples of savantsavant The distinction between the ingenieur savant and his more theoretically oriented mathematical colleagues is the subject of the next section. Others worked as court savants, sometimes without having a position in the civil service. Religious and national tolerance among savants was not unrestricted. The ingenieur savant was both motivated to his research by the concerns of engineering and technology, and also often tailored it to suit such needs. The four were indeed grands savants, comparing favorably with any four from any other country in 1900. He, like his contemporaries, expected far more from the savant. The eighteenth century category of savant differed from the twentieth century category of "scientist" in being broader, more fluid, and not professional. Learning the impossible : the acquisition of possible and impossible languages by a polyglot savant. Next are the 'faux savants', all wearing gold spectacles; claiming science to be infallible, they chant contemporary scientific words with obvious anachronism. But the foreign savants were to show no such hostility. However, none of our ingenieurs savants produced any new results or methods of lasting importance to numerical analysis. These individuals may have hoped to create an image of themselves as savants as well as, or perhaps rather than, showmen. On the other hand, the prototype of the truth seeker as a man of letters or savant is still with us. Generally, savants are very good at some specific cognitive domains but their mastery of language is poor. Savant-like skills exposed in normal people by suppressing the left fronto-temporal lobe. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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