| 释义 |
skilled, ppl. a.|skɪld|
Also 6 skild.
[f. skill n.1 + -ed2.]
1. Of persons: Possessed of skill or knowledge; properly trained or experienced.
1552Elyot s.v. Calleo, To be well skilled in the law. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. iii. ii. 92 Gentlemen, well skil'd in Musicke. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacræ ii. ii. 127 The parts of the Egyptian learning, in which the Scripture tells us Moses was skill'd. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 291 The Persians are skill'd..to shoot flying. 1743Francis tr. Horace, Odes i. xv. 31 And Sthenelus, in Battle skill'd; Or skill'd to guide with steady Rein..his Chariot. 1770Goldsm. Des. Vill. 148 More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise. 1806Beresford Miseries Hum. Life ii. Concl., We are..skilled both in active and sedentary recreations. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvii. IV. 76 Sarsfield..was little skilled in the administration of war, and was still less skilled in civil business. 1870Bryant Iliad iv. I. 114 Some hand Skilled to bend the bow.
b. In attrib. use. (Now common.)
1843Penny Cycl. XXVI. 484/2 An unusual influx of skilled labourers into any employment. 1856Bond Russia at Close of 16th c. (Hakl. Soc.) Introd. 18 Furnishing him with warlike ammunition and with skilled engineers. 1857J. W. Donaldson Christian Orthod. 436 A general designation of professional or skilled workmen. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 475 Every physician and every skilled artist does all things for the sake of the whole.
2. Of work: Requiring or showing skill.
1776Adam Smith W.N. i. x. (1904) I. 113 The policy of Europe considers the labour of all mechanics, artificers, and manufacturers, as skilled labour. 1860Mill Repr. Govt. 91 Every branch of public administration is a skilled business. 1876A. S. Murray Mythol. iii. (1877) 43 He..seems more the patient god of skilled metal-working. |