| 单词 | intelligent |
| 释义 | intelligent (once / 70 pages) adj Scientific findings that squirrels are intelligent animals sounded nutty at first, but now that doctors are encouraging people to eat more nuts because they're such healthy food, those squirrels are looking pretty smart. Pigs are considered intelligent too, and they eat garbage. People and computers are intelligent when they show a high level of understanding. Intelligent comes from the Latin "to understand, to gather," and intelligent creatures gather and make sense of information easily. Many people who aren't labeled intelligent show creativity with resources, or an intelligent use of space, money, or time. While not everyone is considered intelligent — there are even smart vs. dumb computers — most do things that are intelligent, just as intelligent people can do things that are dumb. WORD FAMILYintelligent: intelligence, intelligentest, intelligently, unintelligent+/intelligence: counterintelligence, intelligences/unintelligent: unintelligently USAGE EXAMPLESIt is emotionally intelligent, expertly achieved and beautifully written. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) Describe him in three words Friendly, interesting, intelligent. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) Intelligent people tend to be messier and swear more than others. BBC(Dec 30, 2016) 1adj having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree is there intelligent life in the universe? an intelligent question Syn|Ant smart showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness agile, nimblementally quick apt, clevermentally quick and resourceful brainy, brilliant, smart as a whiphaving or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence bright, smartcharacterized by quickness and ease in learning born, innate, naturalbeing talented through inherited qualities quick, readyapprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity prehensilehaving a keen intellect scintillatingbrilliantly clever searching, trenchanthaving keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect precociouscharacterized by or characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity (especially in mental aptitude) stupid, unintelligent lacking intelligence stupidlacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity brainless, headlessnot using intelligence retardedrelatively slow in mental or emotional or physical development 2adj exercising or showing good judgment an intelligent solution Syn healthy, level-headed, levelheaded, sound reasonable, sensible showing reason or sound judgment 3adj endowed with the capacity to reason Syn reasoning, thinking rational consistent with or based on or using reason 4adj possessing sound knowledge Syn well-informed sophisticated having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire |
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