释义
[ pruh -fish -uh nt ] SHOW IPA
/ prəˈfɪʃ ənt / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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adjective well-advanced or competent in any art, science, or subject; skilled: a proficient swimmer.
Origin of proficient 1580–90; <Latin prōficient- (stem of prōficiēns ) present participle of prōficere to advance, make progress, equivalent to prō- pro-1 + -ficere, combining form of facere to make, do1 . See -ent, efficient
SYNONYMS FOR proficient 1 adept, competent, experienced, accomplished, able, finished.
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OTHER WORDS FROM proficient pro·fi·cient·ly, adverb pro·fi·cient·ness, noun o·ver·pro·fi·cient, adjective o·ver·pro·fi·cient·ly, adverb
un·der·pro·fi·cient, adjective
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Example sentences from the Web for proficient English-learners are students with a different home language, who are not yet proficient in English.
The Learning Curve: Distance Learning Poses More Challenges for English-Learners | Will Huntsberry| October 8, 2020| Voice of San Diego
Web development is all about evolving and stepping up the game you are currently very proficient in.
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The modern-day mascot must be proficient in choreography, comedy and skit ideation, among many other skills.
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Lots of things that now seem canonical would not have been accessible to Leonardo, who was not that proficient in Latin.
Anthony Grafton: How I Write | Noah Charney| July 17, 2013| DAILY BEAST
“We clearly have a proficient bombmaker in town,” says a European security official.
Tripoli on Edge as Fears of Additional Bombings in Libya Escalate | Jamie Dettmer| April 30, 2013| DAILY BEAST
The same will not be said about My Week With Marilyn, no matter how proficient Williams is.
Good Actors, Bad Movies, and the Oscars | Richard Rushfield| November 29, 2011| DAILY BEAST
More impressive than their appearance were their proficient debating skills.
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As proficient as he was in making people trust him, she eventually became wise to his masquerade.
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Hence it happened that the proficient McWilliams secured three round dances with his mistress.
Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West | William MacLeod Raine
To do so he must be a proficient in that impudence, the lack of which created so many difficulties for him.
Marion Fay | Anthony Trollope
I am no proficient in the Latin classics: yet I think I know enough to predicate that Π.
Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853 | Various
He had had some sessions in the art, but not nearly enough to make him proficient .
Planet of the Damned | Harry Harrison
I learned the use of the paddle, and became quite a proficient in the gentle craft.
Roughing it in the Bush | Susanna Moodie
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British Dictionary definitions for proficient adjective having great facility (in an art, occupation, etc); skilled
noun an archaic word for an expert
Derived forms of proficient proficiency , noun proficiently , adverb Word Origin for proficient C16: from Latin prōficere to make progress, from pro- 1 + facere to make
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