单词 | intellectual |
释义 | in·tel·lec·tu·al I. 1. a. < satire is an intellectual weapon — Herbert Read > < intellectual powers > < enabling them to function on the intellectual plane — Bruce Bliven b.1889 > < began his intellectual career as a mathematician — F.S.C.Northrop > — contrasted with animal b. < has a tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people — Green Peyton > < think of such playwrights as coldly intellectual — E.R.Bentley > < in no sense an intellectual or metaphysical painter — Herbert Read > < the most subtle and intellectual edifice ever made by man — Weston La Barre > < disseminated the severe and intellectual Florentine style — National Gallery of Art > c. < as abstruse and intellectual as a chess problem > < there should be a distinction … between manual or copying work and intellectual work — K.C.Wheare > 2. obsolete 3. a. archaic b. (1) < sort of the intellectual type, but most of the gang are real people — W.H.Whyte > < maintain a person can be intellectual and not be intelligent — Jean Stafford > (2) < intellectual workers should be able to deduct from their income tax the amounts which they must spend for books, documents, research work, and materials in general — Report: (Canadian) Royal Commission on National Development > (3) < had a high intellectual forehead — Edmund Wilson > Synonyms: see mental II. 1. obsolete 2. intellectuals plural, archaic 3. a. < an uneducated intellectual who had directed his great powers to accumulation and exploitation — S.H.Adams > < an intellectual is a person endowed with unusual mental capacity — Saturday Review > b. (1) < afraid to be an intellectual — if you wanted to go to art galleries, you were immediately suspect — P.E.Deutschman > < a friendly manner, a quiet voice, and the face of an intellectual — William Ridsdale > (2) < don't go for the intellectual who knows nothing but $2 words — J.P.Whitcomb > < that dreary and narrow creature an intellectual — Manchester Guardian Weekly > < intellectual is an ugly word … it implies consummate snobbery — Russell Kirk > c. < intellectuals … are functioning groups of society, like any of the professionals, such as lawyers, doctors, engineers, professors — F.G.Wilson > |
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