| 单词 | genius |
| 释义 | ge·nius 1. plural genii < every human being has a genius … associated with him from the moment of conception — C.D.Forde & G.I.Jones > 2. a. < fate did not allow him to indulge his genius till those last few years — Norman Douglas > b. (1) < at odds with the genius of the theater — Time > < a spirit hostile to the genius of our government — John Marshall > < suited to the genius of a free people — Robert Cutler > < the genius of the age we have under discussion — Benjamin Farrington > < the genius of Elizabethan literature > (2) < essentially the genius of the mediocre — H.J.Laski > c. < under the spell of the genius of the ancient university town > < the genius of this land was in its great irregularity and variety — Donald Davidson > 3. plural usually genii a. < these malevolent genii of the deep — Norman Douglas > b. < he was the evil genius of that unhappy prince > 4. plural usually geniuses a. (1) < had a genius for getting along with boys — Mary Ross > < a genius at … carpentry — Tom Corkery > < has a genius for cooking — H.E.Scudder > (2) < developing a genius for making people furious — W.J.Reilly > < has a genius for understatement — John Buchan > < has a positive genius for saying the wrong thing > b. < in the contemporary novel genius is hard to find, talent is abundant — British Book News > c. < the rare, fortunate geniuses like the Curies, Darwin, or Newton — Oliver La Farge > specifically Synonyms: see gift |
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