thinker

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈθɪŋ.kəː/|[ˈθɪŋ.kəː]    美 /ˈθɪŋ.kɚ/|[ˈθɪŋ.kɚ] ~ [ˈθɪŋ.kɹ̩]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who spends time thinking, contemplating or meditating.
    — The doer and the thinker No allowance for the other.
  2. An intellectual, such as a philosopher or theologian.
    — From his studies of these thinkers and activists, Mr. Obama took what he called the “Niebuhrian” lesson that we can have “a cleareyed view of the world and the realities of cruelty and sin and greed and violence, and yet, still maintain a sense of hope and possibility, as an act of will and leap of faith.”
  3. The brain; the mind. slang
    — "Well, I tried to do like you and grandfather say; don't use my thinker, use imagination."
  4. A poser; a conundrum that requires some thinking. slang
    — HANK: The NRA is a Washington D.C. based organization. Are you telling me you support Washington D.C.? DALE: That's a thinker.

词形变化

thinkers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
deep thinker doublethinker freethinker groupthinker lateral thinker nonthinker unthinker wishful thinker wrongthinker

词源

From Middle English thinkere, equivalent to think + -er. Compare West Frisian tinker (“thinker”), Dutch denker (“thinker”), German Denker (“thinker”), Danish tænker (“thinker”), Swedish tänkare (“thinker”).
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