| 单词 | whiz-kid |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhiz-kid whiz-kid n. (also whizz-kid) an exceptionally successful or brilliant young person, esp. in politics or business. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > [noun] > wonderful person miracle1595 masterpiece1648 wonderling1658 prodigya1684 phenomenon1839 caution1870 astonisher1871 mazer1876 phenom1881 knock-out1892 superman1925 Wunderkind1930 whiz-kid1960 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [noun] > one who or that which is successful > one who > and talented Wunderkind1930 whiz-kid1960 1960 Time 21 Nov. 100/1 The ‘Whiz Kids’—as the team soon was known. 1962 Economist 22 Dec. 1202/1 Critics..regard President Kennedy as a quiz-kid surrounded by whiz-kids. 1966 C. S. Ogilvy & J. T. Anderson Excursions Number Theory ix. 103 Zerah Colburn was an early nineteenth-century mathematical whiz-kid. 1976 Time 27 Dec. 13/1 The sin of Whiz Kid Shelepin was that he tried to build a political base from which to promote his own post-Brezhnev candidacy for the top post. 1977 M. Drabble Ice Age i. 27 Anthony was watching unedited film of an interview with Len the property whizz kid. 1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Oct. 1079/5 Editors are a humble and obscure race; lacking the glamour of the whiz-kids and wheeler-dealers.., they are rarely seen in polite society, their names unknown to the columns of The Bookseller. 1981 Sunday Express 25 Jan. 17/1 Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher will meet Britain's latest whizz-kid inventor when she hosts a unique gathering of inventors and financiers at Downing Street tomorrow. < as lemmas |
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