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Flair N Latin Fleə 天赋,本领,才华 英 N.天赋,本领,才华 Natural

单词 flair
音标 [fleə]
解释 n. 天赋,本领,才华
红宝书 【英】 n.天赋,本领,才华( a natural talent or ability; knack)
【记】 和fair(公正的,美丽 的)一起记
【例】 a flair for writing (写作才华)
字源 flair (n.)
mid-14c., "an odor," from Old French flair "odor or scent," from flairer "to smell," from Vulgar Latin *flagrare, dissimilated from Latin fragrare "emit (a sweet) odor" (see fragrant). Sense of "special aptitude" is American English, 1925, perhaps from notion of a hound's ability to track scent.
不择手段背单词 n. 天赋; 才华 = knack = keenness
【记】fl = fly, air: fly到air中去了, 没有天赋行吗?
趣味全助记 【记】源自fragrant 芳香的 r=l, g 换了i或被省略(g可不发音,如light);fly air, 飞天的本事,电影“功夫”中,老丐对小周星驰说:靓仔,你有道灵光从天灵盖喷出,你知不知道?如有一日,你打通任督二脉,还不得飞天啊!→周有天赋,练武奇材

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