ingenious
英 [ɪnˈdʒiː.ni.əs]
美 [ɪnˈdʒiː.ni.əs]
- adj. 有独创性的；机灵的，精制的；心灵手巧的
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ingenuous 诚实的，真诚的
ingenious 天才的【u（you）诚实，i（I）天才】
ingenious 天才的【u（you）诚实，i（I）天才】
中文词源
ingenious 灵巧的，精巧的
来自拉丁语ingenium,天生的品质，能力，来自in-,进入，使，内在，-gen,生育，出生，词源同gene,engine.即出生就具有的，后引申词义陪明的，灵巧的，精巧的。
英语词源
- ingenious
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ingenious: [15] Ingenious used to be a more elevated term than it is today. To begin with it meant ‘highly intelligent’, but already by the 16th century it was starting to come down in the world somewhat to ‘cleverly inventive’. It comes, partly via French ingénieux, from Latin ingeniōsus, a derivative of ingenium ‘natural talent, skill’ (a word which, like English gene, generate, genital, etc, goes back ultimately to Indo-European *gen- ‘produce’, and was also the source of English engine).
Its formal similarity to the distantly related ingenuous has led in the past to its being used for ‘honest, open, frank’, and indeed its semantic derivative ingenuity ‘quality of being ingenious’ [16] belongs etymologically to ingenuous.
=> gene, general, generate, genital - ingenious (adj.)
- early 15c., "intellectual, talented," from Middle French ingénieux "clever, ingenious" (Old French engeignos), from Latin ingeniosus "of good capacity, full of intellect; clever, gifted with genius," from ingenium "innate qualities, ability," literally "that which is inborn," from in- "in" (see in- (2)) + gignere, from PIE *gen- "produce" (see genus). Sense of "skillful, clever at contrivance" first recorded 1540s. In a sense of "crafty, clever, skillful" Middle English had enginous (mid-14c.), from Old French engeignos, also engineful "skillful (in war)" (c. 1300). Related: Ingeniously; ingeniousness.
权威例句
- 1. ingenious ways of saving energy
- 节约能源的巧妙方法
- 2. The director used ingenious devices to keep the audience in suspense.
- 导演用巧妙手法引起观众的悬念.
- 3. Try to think of unusual and ingenious solutions.
- 尽量想想不同寻常的、巧妙的解决方法.
- 4. She is an ingenious girl.
- 她是位很灵巧的姑娘.
- 5. His solution to the puzzle is ingenious.
- 他破解这道难题的方法很巧妙。
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