savant

英 [səˈvɑːnt]

美 [səˈvɑːnt]

n.  博学之士; 学者; 专家; 独通一行的人; 独开一窍的人

复数：savants　

GRETEM8

BNC.41315 / COCA.21472

牛津词典

noun

• 博学之士；学者；专家
  a person with great knowledge and ability
• 独通一行的人；独开一窍的人
  a person who is less intelligent than others but who has particular unusual abilities that other people do not have

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 博学之士;学者;专家;天才
  Asavantis a person of great learning or natural ability.
  1. ... the opinion of savants on the composition of the lunar surface.
     专家对于月球表面构造的见解
• N-COUNT 独通一行的人;独开一窍的人;天才型弱智者
  You can refer to someone as anidiot savantif they seem to be less intelligent than normal people but are unusually good at doing one particular thing.
  1. ...an idiot savant, an autistic with a gift for numbers.
     对数字独具禀赋的天才型自闭症患者

英英释义

noun

• someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field
  Synonym:initiatelearned personpundit

双语例句

• I was wrong about him. he's not an idiot savant at all.
  我误解了他，他决不是白痴专家。
• By the age of 16, however, Savant's precocious schoolgirl was no more.
  然而，到16岁时，莎凡特不再是早熟的女生了。
• IN DOSTOYEVSKY'S novel "The Idiot", the hero part savant, part blundering na ï f arrives at an important party with only one goal in mind: not to break the hostess's valuable Chinese vase.
  在托斯陀耶夫斯基的小说《白痴》中，兼具学者风范与傻里傻气的主人公参加了一次重要的晚会，心中只有一个目标，就是不要把女主人昂贵的中国花瓶给打碎了。
• Walter Anderson, at Parade, remembers how at cocktail parties in the 1980s people would throw Savant riddles and mathematical puzzles.
  《展示》的沃尔特安德森记得，在20世纪80年代的鸡尾酒会上，人们用谜语和数学难题对莎凡特进行狂轰滥炸。
• All of which only makes people wonder why savant has found no higher purpose.
  所有这些令人们好奇，为何莎凡特没有发现更高的目标。
• Autistic intelligence varies widely, from severe retardation to savant syndrome.
  自闭症患者的智力差异甚广，从极度迟钝到学者症候群不等。
• Because whatever else Savant is, she is not a fraud.
  因为无论她是什么人，她绝不是骗子。
• Egendorf, who wanted to write a book about high IQ societies, says he remembers proposing a couple of book ideas to savant, and suggesting that they send her IQ results to Guinness as a way of making her famous.
  艾根多夫打算写一本关于高智商社团的书，称他记得向莎凡特提出了一些出书想法，并建议他们把她的智商测试结果寄给吉尼斯，以这种方式使她成名。
• Savant was born Marilyn Mach in south central St Louis in 1946.
  莎凡特1946年出生于中南部的圣路易斯，名为玛丽莲马赫（MarilynMach）。
• But for many people, the story of Savant and Ask Marilyn are just two more pieces of evidence in a larger, decades-long argument about the accuracy and objectivity of intelligence testing.
  但对很多人来说，莎凡特的故事以及向玛丽莲求教从广义上说，只是为关于智商测试的准确性和客观性长达数十年之久的争论增添了两个证据。