| 单词 | savant |
| 释义 | savant (once / 3731 pages) n You know that girl in your school with a GPA over 100? She is a savant in the making. A savant is someone over-the-top smart, a scholar. It might take a savant only five minutes to do an entire math test. Savant is the French word for "learned" and it goes back to the Latin word "to be wise", sapere. There are savants who are wise and learned, and then there are idiot savants, who are brilliant in very specific areas, but not in others, like an idiot savant who knows absolutely everything about the American Civil War but has no ability with learning a foreign language. WORD FAMILYsavant: savants USAGE EXAMPLESDonald Trump must be some kind of nationalist savant, all instinct and gut, a fluke of history. Seattle Times(Dec 18, 2016) Say what you will about Pete Carroll as a master motivator and coaching savant. Seattle Times(Dec 14, 2016) For a major splurge, consider the new Savant Remote + Host, with a cool design and touch screen, at $500. Seattle Times(Nov 14, 2016) n someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field Syn|Hypo|Hyper initiate, learned person, pundit polymath a person of great and varied learning bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines |
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