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Intelligence Inter Pick Choose Recorded 1422.Intelligence 英 ɪn'telɪdʒ(ə)Ns]美

正面 1422.intelligence
英 [ɪn'telɪdʒ(ə)ns]美 [ɪn'tɛlɪdʒəns]

背面
释义:
n. 智力;情报工作;情报机关;理解力
例句:
1. Too bad he used his intelligence for criminal purposes.他把聪明都用在了犯罪上,太可惜了。

1. inter- "between" + lig- "choose, pick out" + -ence => intelligence ( inter- 尾部的字母r被同化为l, 这与com-,ab-,sub-等前缀的同化的原理和原因是相同的。).2. => choose between, pick out between. => 从...中将其识别、区分出来。=> 引申为:understand,comprehend.
intelligence 智力,才智来自intelligent,聪明的,有才智的。
intelligence (n.)late 14c., "faculty of understanding," from Old French intelligence (12c.), from Latin intelligentia, intellegentia "understanding, power of discerning; art, skill, taste," from intelligentem (nominative intelligens) "discerning," present participle of intelligere "to understand, comprehend," from inter- "between" (see inter-) + legere "choose, pick out, read" (see lecture (n.)). Meaning superior understanding, sagacity" is from early 15c. Sense of "information, news" first recorded mid-15c., especially "secret information from spies" (1580s). Intelligence quotient first recorded 1921 (see I.Q.)."

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