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单词 to have a head for
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to have a (good, bad, etc.) head for
b. Aptitude in a particular subject or sphere. Frequently in to have a (good, bad, etc.) head for.See also business head n. (b) at business n. Compounds 5.
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the mind > mental capacity > [verb (transitive)]
to have a (good, bad, etc.) head for1642
1642 R. Wright Speech in House of Commons 1 I shall not speake as a Lawyer, for I have no Head for Law.
1674 J. Dryden et al. Notes Empress of Morocco 70 A man should be learn'd in severall Sciences, and should have a reasonable Philosophicall, and in some measure a Mathematicall head.
1726 G. Crawfurd Lives Officers Crown & State Scotl. 381/1 He seems to have had..a good Head for Business.
1763 C. Johnstone Reverie (new ed.) II. xiii. 81 I can't tell how it is, I have a bad head for politics myself.
1832 J. B. Fraser Highland Smugglers III. x. 256 What..would you have done without Glenvallich's good business head?
1876 C. H. Webb Sea-weed & what we Seed 101 Do not let anything I may have said lead you to believe that my friend Briggs has not a great financial head.
1895 Windsor Mag. 2 509/2 I didn't rightly understand it, never having had a good head for figures.
1930 J. B. Priestley Angel Pavement vi. 301 You say I haven't a head for business.
1985 J. Kerman Musicol. 163 Since not everybody has a head for theory, a lot of fuzzy material of this kind is written by ethnomusicologists long past their student days.
1996 Flying Aug. 109/2 Justin, whose father is a pilot, has a good math head.
2007 C. Berg Flesh & Spirit iv. 35 Your explanations were very clear, and you've surely a good head for maps and scouting.
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