genius
英 ['dʒiːnɪəs]
美['dʒinjəs]
- n. 天才，天赋；精神
词态变化
复数: geniuses;
中文词源
genius 天资
来自词根gen, 生育，词源同generate.原义为守护精灵，传说中每个人出生时都会有守护精灵相伴而生，并一生陪伴成长，引申义天资。参考电影《黄金罗盘》。
英英释意
- 1. someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality;
- "Mozart was a child genius"
- "he's smart but he's no Einstein"
- 2. unusual mental ability
- 3. someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
- 4. exceptional creative ability
- 5. a natural talent;
- "he has a flair for mathematics"
- "he has a genius for interior decorating"
英文词源
- genius
- genius: [16] Latin genius originally meant ‘deity of generation and birth’. It came ultimately from the Indo-European base *gen- ‘produce’ (source of English gene, generate, genitive, etc), probably via a derivative *gnjos. It broadened out considerably in meaning, initially to ‘attendant spirit’, the sense in which English originally acquired it (French took it over as génie, a word which, because of its phonetic and semantic similarity to Arabic jinn, 18th-century translators of the Arabian nights eagerly adopted into English as genie).
The main modern English sense, ‘person of outstanding intellectual ability’, which dates from the 17th century, goes back to a comparatively rare Latin ‘intellectual capacity’. Genial [16] comes from Latin geniālis, a derivative of genius, which again originally meant ‘of generation and birth’ (a sense which survived into English: ‘And thou, glad Genius! in whose gentle hand the bridal bower and genial bed remain’, Edmund Spenser, Epithalamion 1595).
It later developed in Latin to ‘pleasant, festive’.
=> general - genius (n.)
- late 14c., "tutelary or moral spirit" who guides and governs an individual through life, from Latin genius "guardian deity or spirit which watches over each person from birth; spirit, incarnation; wit, talent;" also "prophetic skill," originally "generative power" (or "inborn nature"), from PIE *gen(e)-yo-, from root *gene- "to produce, give birth, beget" (see genus). Sense of "characteristic disposition" of a person is from 1580s. Meaning "person of natural intelligence or talent" and that of "exalted natural mental ability" are first recorded 1640s.
同义词辨析
ability, capacity, capability, genius, talent, competence, faculty, gift, aptitude
这些名词均可表示人的"能力，才能"之意。
ability：普通用词，指人先天的或学来的各种能力。
capacity：侧重指人的潜在能力，通常不指体力，多指才智，尤指接受与领悟能力。
capability：多用于人，指胜任某项具体工作的能力，也指本身具有、尚未发挥的潜在能力。常与of或for连用。
genius：语气最强，指天赋的高度才能与智力。
talent：着重指人某方面具有可发展和培养的突出天赋才能，但语意比genius弱。
competence：正式用词，侧重指令人满意的业务能力与水平，达到胜任某项工作等的要求。
faculty：指特殊的才能或智力。
gift：着重个人的天赋的才能或在某方面的显著本领，常暗含不能用一般规律作解释的意味。
aptitude：多指先天或后天习得的运用自如的能力，常暗示接受能力强，能迅速掌握一种学术训练或艺术技巧。
考试真题
- They understood that even geniuses have to work hard.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
- Research is converging ( ' , 汇聚) on the conclusion that great accomplishment and even genius is typically the result of years of passion and dedication and not something that flows naturally from a gift.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
- For instance, talking about mathematical geniuses who were more or less born that way puts students in a fixed mind-set, but descriptions of great mathematicians who fell in love with math and developed amazing skills produce a growth mind-set.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
- Of course, I had heard that genius could show itself at an early age, so I was only slightly taken aback that I had achieved perfection at the tender age of 14.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
- Also, I've a good chance of winning a scholarship at Leeds, which will be pretty awesome, the benefits of being a music genius.
2019年6月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section B
- Franklin, who was largely self-taught, may have been a genius, but he wasn't really an exception when it comes to American making and creativity.
2019年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B
- Of course, I had heard that genius could show itself at an early age, so I was only slightly taken aback that I had achieved perfection at the tender age of 14.
2015年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B
- Research is converging on the conclusion that great accomplishment and even genius is typically the result of years of passion and dedication and not something that flows naturally from a gift.
2016年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B
- Geniuses have always breezed through.
出自-2012年6月阅读原文
- was known as a young genius in math calculations
出自-2010年12月阅读原文
- killy learned an important secret shared by many creative people: innovations don't require genius, just a willingness to question the way things have always been done.
2019年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section B
- The second half of the 20th century saw a collection of geniuses, warriors, entrepreneurs and visionaries labour to create a fabulous machine that could function as a typewriter and printing press, studio and theatre, paintbrush and gallery, piano and radio, the mail as well as the mail carrier.
出自-2012年考研阅读原文
- They perpetuate the myth of the lone genius.
出自-2014年考研阅读原文
- By the time Shakespeare was twenty-five, Lyly, Peele, and Greene had made comedies that were at once popular and literary; Kyd had written a tragedy that crowded the pit; and Marlowe had brought poetry and genius to triumph on the common stage - where they had played no part since the death of Euripides.
出自-2018年考研翻译原文
- It can't when so many more employers have so much more access to so much more above average cheap foreign labor, cheap robotics, cheap software, cheap automation and cheap genius.
2013年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
实用场景例句
- He had a genius for making people feel at home.
- 他有一种能够使人感觉轻松自在的本领。
牛津词典
- the genius of Shakespeare
- 莎士比亚的天才
牛津词典
- a statesman of genius
- 天才的政治家
牛津词典
- Her idea was a stroke of genius .
- 她的主意是聪明的一着。
牛津词典
- a mathematical/comic, etc. genius
- 数学、喜剧等天才
牛津词典
- He's a genius at organizing people.
- 他是人员组织方面的天才。
牛津词典
- You don't have to be a genius to see that they are in love!
- 傻子也能看出他们相爱了！
牛津词典
- This is the mark of her real genius as a designer...
- 这展现了她作为设计师的真正天赋。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The man had genius and had made his mark in the aviation world...
- 这人很有天赋，在航空界非常出名。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Chaplin was not just a genius, he was among the most influential figures in film history.
- 卓别林不仅仅是天才，也是电影史上最有影响力的人物之一。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The proper handshake is brief but there should firmness and warmth in the clasp.
- 准确的握手要迅捷,但是在握手的瞬间应有力度并且布满热情.
期刊摘选
- Dick thinks of himself as a genius in literature.
- 迪克自以为是个文学天才.
《简明英汉词典》
- Einstein was a mathematical genius.
- 爱因斯坦是数学天才.
《简明英汉词典》
- There is no other team with the privilege to have such a deep symbiosis with a football genius.
- 从没有任何一个球队与一个足球天才保持着如此深的特殊依附关系.
《简明英汉词典》
- Li Bai was a great genius.
- 李白是个伟大的天才.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- He displayed an originality amounting almost to genius.
- 他显示出近乎天才的创造性.
《简明英汉词典》
- His genius as a painter flowered very early.
- 他的绘画天赋很早就发挥出来.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- He railed at the world for its neglect of his genius.
- 他怨世人不能赏识他的才华.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- He is endowed with genius.
- 他赋有天才.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- He has some share of his father's genius.
- 他继承了几分他父亲的天才.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- He was a universal genius.
- 他是一个多才多艺的天才.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- He has a postive genius for putting his foot in his mouth.
- 他确实有说错话的才能.
《用法词典》
- She blathers about goodness and beauty and her own genius.
- 她胡吹什么德行、美貌和自己的天才.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- We pay homage to the genius of Shakespeare.
- 我们对莎士比亚的天才表示敬仰.
《简明英汉词典》
- He does not pretend to be a genius.
- 他并不自命为天才.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- Beethoven was a towering musical genius.
- 贝多芬是一个伟大的音乐天才.
《简明英汉词典》
- He is a man of genius.
- 他是一个有天赋的人.
《用法词典》