| 单词 | to be a slow study |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be a slow (careless, etc.) study P4. to be a quick study: (of an actor or performer) to be quick to learn lines or a part; (hence more generally) to be quick to learn new things. Similarly to be a slow (careless, etc.) study. Cf. sense 5c. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > [verb (intransitive)] > be a slow or quick learner to be a quick study?1791 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > act [verb (intransitive)] > be quick or slow at learning to be a quick study?1791 ?1791 ‘A. Pasquin’ Eccentricities J. Edwin I. 59 She could go on for any part at a day's notice—valued herself on being a quick study. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxiii. 220 I've got a part of twelve lengths here which I must be up in to-morrow night..; I'm a confounded quick study, that's one comfort. 1882 J. Ashton Social Life Reign of Queen Anne II. xxv. 21 Powell..was..a careless study, with a bad memory. 1897 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 254/1 There rose on the air the voice of one who was a slow study repeating the glib lines of The New Woman. 1900 J. K. Jerome Three Men on Bummel i. 13 Muriel is master of six pieces already, as perhaps you know; and all the other children are quick studies. 1954 M. Ewer Heart Untouched ix. 164 She had learnt something in these last few days. She was a quick study. 1979 Music Educators Jrnl. 66 52/3 A certain type of mechanically facile young performer (a quick study and top reader..) whose singing is neat and unthreatening. 2006 L. Smolin Trouble with Physics xvii. 289 I had done research as an undergraduate, which most of my peers had not, and I knew I was a quick study. < as lemmas |
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