| 释义 |
maven U.S. colloq.|ˈmeɪvən|
Also mavin, mayvin. Pl. -im.
[ad. Heb. mevin understanding.]
An expert or connoisseur.
1965Hadassah News Letter Apr. 30 (Advt.), Get Vita at your favorite supermarket, grocery or delicatessen. Tell them the beloved Maven sent you. It won't save you any money: but you'll get the best herring—Vita. 1968L. Rosten Joys of Yiddish 223 Mavin was recently given considerable publicity in a series of newspaper advertisements for herring tidbits. ‘The Herring Mavin Strikes Again!’ proclaimed the caption. The picture showed an empty jar. A real advertising mavin must have thought that up. 1969Time 12 Sept. 78 Much of the credit for the Cinderella publishing story goes to Robert Gottlieb, then the editorial genie in residence at Simon & Schuster, now the mavin at Alfred Knopf. 1970L. M. Feinsilver Taste of Yiddish iii. 323 Canada Dry has been touting its product as ‘Maven's Choice’ in American Jewish weeklies, where Switzerland Emmentaler cheese announces itself with: ‘Calling all Mayvinim!’ 1972Publishers Weekly 10 July 22/1 If Shawn is not exactly a boxing maven, he knows even less about baseball. 1973Milwaukee Jrnl. 4 Mar. V. 4/1 Miss Decter (no Ms., please) is one of the culture ‘mavins’ of New York, to use a newly chic term borrowed from the Hebrew. 1973N.Y. Times 8 July X. 31/4 Mama, who had managed to support herself by becoming a local real estate maven, negotiated the purchase. |