英语单词 | intellectual |
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英美音标 | 英 [ˌɪntə'lektʃuəl] 美 [ˌɪntə'lektʃuəl] |
中文释义 | n.凭理智做事者;知识分子 adj.智力的;聪明的 |
英语例句 | (1) He likes to set himself up as an intellectual. (2) These views were common among intellectuals. (3) The argument was too intellectual for me; I couldn't follow a word of it. (4) Chess is a highly intellectual game. (5) We admired his intellectual providence to acquire vast stores of dry information. |
中文例句 | (1) 他喜欢自命为知识分子。 (2) 这些观点在知识分子中很普遍。 (3) 这场争论对我来说太深奥了,我一点都搞不明白。 (4) 象棋是需用高度智力的运动项目。 (5) 我们钦佩他收集大量原始资料的远见卓识。 |
vocabulary简明 | The adjective intellectual describes something related to or using the mind or intellect. Your creative pursuit of singing in a rock band is different from your intellectual interest in 16th-century drama. |
vocabulary扩展 | Intellectual is often used to describe intensive reasoning and deep thinking, particularly in relation to subjects that tend to spark deep discussion, such as literature or philosophy. An intellectual is also a noun for a cerebral or brainy person who engages in deep thinking, like Plato, Albert Einstein, or your classmate who can speak at length about the relationship between French existentialism and ice hockey. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ 形容词]智力的;脑力的;理智的 Intellectual means involving a person's ability to think and to understand ideas and information. [ADJ n]
intellectually
2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]知识分子;脑力劳动者 An intellectual is someone who spends a lot of time studying and thinking about complicated ideas.
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