| 单词 | gift |
| 释义 | gift I. 1. < whatever physical gifts she may have are carefully cultivated — Lafcadio Hearn > < a sense for mathematics … is mainly a gift of the gods — Bertrand Russell > < a gift for pungent satire > < sight reading is an acquired gift > 2. a. (1) (2) (3) b. Christian religion < the Mass of the Presanctified gifts > c. 3. < the office is not in his gift > 4. dialect England Synonyms: < their excellent strategy and their gift for intrigue which brought many Indian tribes to their assistance — R.W.Murray > < anyone who happens to be blessed or cursed with the gift of humor — Sidney Alexander > faculty in this sense simply indicates any distinct capacity or ability to do or accomplish; it lacks the connotative power of many of the others in this group < there was mental faculty in those pliable brows to see through, and combat, an unwitting Wise Youth — George Meredith > < they … recover warmth and animation after the creative faculty has revived them — Ellen Glasgow > aptitude may imply a natural liking for or an inherent potential ability at, without, however, implying anything more than promise < many women … have no aptitude for domestic work — G.B.Shaw > < evidence is growing that the feminine mind has a special aptitude for detective fiction — Times Literary Supplement > talent indicates an inherent ability and may suggest an endowment which one should develop, a capacity for effective, facile execution or accomplishment, a less exalted power of accomplishment than is indicated by genius < he had … but to go forward to be supreme as soon as his talent could develop its full effect — Hilaire Belloc > < a surpassing talent for improvisation, an ability to call forth genius to flesh out his dreams — Henry Wallace > < what Goethe did really say was “the greatest talent”, not the “the greatest genius”. The difference is important because, while talent gives the notion of power in a man's performance, genius gives rather the notion of felicity and perfection in it — Matthew Arnold > genius may indicate a strong aptitude for a particular matter, an aptitude ensuring successful execution < has a genius for saying new and suprising things about old subjects — Aldous Huxley > More generally, genius is likely to designate a superior transcendent combination of intelligence, vision, and creative or interpretative power < whose practical sense equaled his intuitive genius — Henry Adams > < a really great and successful writer must have a good deal of talent as well as a good deal of genius — J.W.Krutch > bent indicates an inherent inclination to some study or activity which militates toward successful execution < he early showed a bent for journalism, and the year after he reached his majority … he became editor — W.B.Shaw > knack may imply a ready dexterity or adroitness in execution hard to analyze, a dexterity independent of any great mental power < improvision was his knack and forte; he wrote rapidly and much — sometimes an entire novel in a month — Carl Van Doren > II. 1. < the Lord gifted him with the power of forceful speech > 2. a. chiefly Britain < gifted the money in memory of his uncle — British Agric. Bulletin > < I hear Her Excellency's gifted the land — Kamala Markandaya > b. < generously gifted us with a copy — Saturday Review > < gifted his parents with a television set — Sydney (Australia) Sunday Telegraph > < gifted her with a large heart-shaped diamond — Louella Parsons > |
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