词汇 | ingenious |
释义 | ingenious adjective uk /ɪnˈdʒiː.ni.əs/ us /ɪnˈdʒiː.ni.əs/ (of a person) very intelligent and skilful, or (of a thing) skilfully made or planned and involving new ideas and methods: (人)灵巧的;(物品等)制作精巧的;(方法等)巧妙的 an ingenious idea/method/solution巧妙的主意/方法/解决办法 Johnny is so ingenious - he can make the most remarkable sculptures from the most ordinary materials.约翰尼真是手巧——他可以用最普通的材料制作出最棒的雕塑。 Synonyms clever cunning Intelligence acuity acumen agility apt aptness brain grey matter gumption highbrow horse sense hyper-intelligent perceptively percipient percipiently perspicacious perspicaciously perspicacity profundity whip-smart wisdom Related wordingeniously ingenious | American Dictionaryingenious adjective us/ɪnˈdʒin·jəs/ (of a person) skilled at inventing new ways to do something, esp. to solve problems, or (of ideas or things) original, and showing esp. the ability to solve problems: an ingenious engineer/songwriter She devised an ingenious solution to the problem. Examples of ingeniousingenious Bizarrely messy at first sight, they ultimately reveal a hidden structure which is every bit as ingenious as that of a traditional wellmade plot. Endless simple yet ingenious methods were invented by the bacteria for developing the incredible diversity of observed complex patterns. All of this is ingenious and suggestive, but of little direct relevance to the seventeenth century. The proposed model is a courageous and ingenious attempt to integrate the current forms of generativism and associationism into one system. This ingenious attempt is likely to prove a failure. An ingenious microtonal keyboard configuration, although not for pianos, was invented over a hundred years ago but has not exactly caught on. One could fill up a library with writings in many languages which are basically ingenious and ingenuous glosses on these three ideas. A good deal of the argument is sensible, even ingenious. Rather than be impressed by such ingenious playfulness, the reader or audience may feel that it is rationally indefensible upon philosophical, aesthetic, and ethical grounds. Some of the modern, integrated applications of micropalaeontology and palynology in the oil industry are as equally ingenious as they are fascinating. Outside games required an ingenious use of local materials. Most ingenious of all the methods described in this book is the use of asymmetries in studying the development of the brain. The second part includes an attempt to mystify the audience through ingenious theatre technology. And what art can be more helpful or more pleasing to a philosophical traveller, an architect and every ingenious mechanician? In this ingenious way, the theatre's conventionality is unveiled, and this, in turn, heightens the appearance of the aesthetic function. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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