| 单词 | student of human nature |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstudent of human nature student of human nature n. a person with a keen interest in how others think and act; one who studies human motivation and behaviour. ΚΠ 1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women II. xii. 312 Inform us, ye students of human nature, what it is in the female mind that..inclines it so strongly to the love of scandal? 1831 Edinb. Lit. Jrnl. 16 July 31/1 It is a natural history of one of the most powerful minds that ever lived, and therefore valuable to the student of human nature. 1918 A. A. Brill & A. B. Kuttner tr. S. Freud Refl. War & Death i. 35 Students of human nature..have long ago taught us that we do wrong to value our intelligence as an independent force and to overlook its dependence upon our emotional life. 1958 Amer. Bar Assoc. Jrnl. July 636/1 It requires no deep student of human nature to realize that a driver who knows that his tickets can be fixed is going to be careless about observance of the traffic laws. 2007 A. Greenspan Age of Turbulence 17 Economists cannot avoid being students of human nature, particularly of exuberance and fear. < as lemmas |
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