单词 | intelligentsia |
释义 | intelligentsiain‧tel‧li‧gent‧si‧a /ɪnˌteləˈdʒentsiə/ noun ![]() ![]() WORD ORIGINintelligentsia ExamplesOrigin: 1900-2000 Russian intelligentsiya, from Latin intelligentia ‘intelligence’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorintelligent and well-educated► educated Collocations someone who is educated is intelligent and knows a lot because they have had a good education, have read a lot etc: · You're smart, you're educated, you shouldn't have any trouble finding a job.· In general, children of educated parents tend to get better grades.well educated: · The boy came from a good home, was well educated and had every advantage.highly educated: · Nadia is a highly-educated, very motivated individual who will go far. ► intellectual an intelligent, well-educated person who spends a lot of their time thinking about, writing about, and discussing ideas, literature etc: · It's an organization of writers, artists and intellectuals, who come together to discuss their ideas.· The restaurant was once the meeting place for leading French left-wing intellectuals such as Sartre and de Beauvoir. ► learned formal a learned person has read many books and knows a lot about many things, and is greatly respected because of their knowledge: · The old professor was obviously a very learned man.· It's true that art critics aren't as learned as art-historians in these matters. ► academic someone who is academic is very good at studying and does well at school, university etc: · I wasn't very academic, and l left school at sixteen.· If you're academic, you can take some of your exams a year or two early.· Teachers must provide challenging activities for their more academic pupils. ► brains the most intelligent person or people in a country, organization etc: the brains: · You'd better ask Toby. He's the brains around here.best brains: · Many of Britain's best brains have left the country to go and work in America. ► intelligentsia formal the most intelligent and highly educated people in a society such as the writers, thinkers, and artists: · The demonstrators belong to the middle classes and the intelligentsia, which have suffered most as a result of the government's economic policies. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► revolutionary Word family· The revolutionary intelligentsia became fanatically convinced of its own exclusive moral and intellectual superiority.· During the 1880s Marxism began to gain currency among the revolutionary intelligentsia.· The effect has been to highlight weaknesses in each of the traditional interpretations and to demythologize the revolutionary intelligentsia.· The key to the protest of the revolutionary intelligentsia lies in their psychology.· There is still no adequate head count of the revolutionary intelligentsia.· The revolutionary intelligentsia seemed doomed to doctrinaire squabbles over increasingly irrelevant issues.· The revolutionary intelligentsia were to assume an importance out of all proportion to their meagre numbers.· The same point may be made about the revolutionary intelligentsia in general. WORD FAMILYnounintelligenceintelligentsiaintelligibilityadjectiveintelligent ≠ unintelligentintelligible ≠ unintelligibleadverbintelligentlyintelligibly the intelligentsia the people in a society who are most highly educated and who are most interested in new ideas, especially in art, literature, or politics |
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