genius
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英 /ˈd͡ʒiː.ni.əs/
美 /ˈd͡ʒin.jəs/|/ˈd͡ʒi.ni.əs/
英文释义
名词 n.
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Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art, etc.
— She's a genius; she won a Nobel Prize at fifteen!
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Extraordinary mental capacity.
— Excuse, therefore, the shortcomings of genius under the sudorific influence of the summer solstice; for be assured that the vertical sun, however it may dulcify and mature cherries, plums, and other fruitful ‘plumpitudes,’ is by no means favorable to the development of intellectual products.
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Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.
— a work of genius
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The tutelary deity or spirit of a place or person.
— and the genius of the place: the growing enthusiasm for codified standards in the Army and Navy
形容词 adj.
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Ingenious, brilliant, very clever, or original.
— What a genius idea!
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词源 1
From Latin genius (“inborn nature; a tutelary deity of a person or place; wit, brilliance”), from gignō (“to beget, produce”), Old Latin genō, from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵenh₁-. Doublet of genio. See also genus and genie.
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From Latin genius (“inborn nature; a tutelary deity of a person or place; wit, brilliance”), from gignō (“to beget, produce”), Old Latin genō, from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵenh₁-. Doublet of genio. See also genus and genie.
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