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单词 savant
释义
savantsav‧ant /ˈsævənt $ səˈvɑːnt, sæ-/ noun [countable] formal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINsavant
Origin:
1700-1800 French present participle of savoir ‘to know’
Examples
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  • At the other extreme sit the savants at Morgan Stanley & Co.
  • At the start of his research into savants there were only 50 known cases in the world.
  • Ignorance and ingratitude, such is the lot of the savant.
  • Well, my father and grandfather would have agreed with you; but modern savants have rejected the concept.
  • What Tughlukabad was to the military of fourteenth-century Delhi, the suburb of Hauz Khas was to the savants.
1someone who knows a lot about a subject2someone who has mental problems and may have lower intelligence than average, but who can do one thing very well, such as adding numbers very quickly
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