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单词 intelligentsia
释义 in·tel·li·gen·tsia
noun
also in·tel·li·gen·tzia \(ˌ)in.ˌteləˈjentsēə, ə̇n.ˌtel- also -ˈjench(ē)ə or -ˈgentsēə\
(-s)
Etymology: Russian intelligentsiya, from Latin intelligentia intelligence — more at intelligence
1.
 a. : a class of well-educated articulate persons constituting a distinct, recognized, and self-conscious social stratum within a nation and claiming or assuming for itself the guiding role of an intellectual, social, or political vanguard
  < the basic function of the Encyclopedists and of all later intelligentsias … includes both the iconoclastic and the pedagogic, the destructive and the constructive element — Arthur Koestler >
  < an inferior helot people without any national consciousness, without any intelligentsia — O.D.Tolischus >
  < it has a restless, unstable, rebellious, and brilliant intelligentsia — R.H.Markham >
 b. : a class of persons devoted to matters of the mind and especially to the arts and letters : a class of persons given to study, reflection, and speculation especially concerning large, profound, or abstract issues
  < a café where the local intelligentsia gathered >
  < a trifling comedy scorned by the intelligentsia >
2. : a class of persons engaged in activity requiring preeminently the use of the intellect : a class of persons engaged in mental as distinguished from manual labor
 < best opinion in this country accords to professional men and women the status of intelligentsia — M.L.Cooke >
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