| 词汇 | connoisseur |
| 释义 | connoisseur noun[ C ] uk /ˌkɒn.əˈsɜːr/ us /ˌkɑː.nəˈsɝː/ a person who knows a lot about and enjoys one of the arts, or food, drink, etc. and can judge quality and skill in that subject: （艺术品、食品、饮料等的）鉴赏家，鉴定家，行家 a wine/art connoisseur葡萄酒／艺术鉴赏家 a connoisseur of ballet/cigars芭蕾舞／雪茄行家 Experts and specialists a mine of informationidiom academician artist authority boffin child prodigy doyenne lapidary Latin Americanist literati maven savant semiotician skilled smart money sports scientist whizz wonder wonderkid wunderkind connoisseur | American Dictionaryconnoisseur noun[ C ] us/ˌkɑn·əˈsɜr, -ˈsʊər/ a person who has expert knowledge of something, esp. an art, food, or drink, and is qualified to judge and appreciate its quality: The mushrooms had the chewy, savory flavor preferred by connoisseurs. connoisseur | Business Englishconnoisseur noun[ C ] uk /ˌkɒnəˈsɜːr/us someone who has a lot of experience of something and knows a lot about it: a connoisseur of fine wine This product will be marketed at connoisseurs. Examples of connoisseurconnoisseur He understood little of the art of government at which he remained an aesthete rather than a connoisseur despite a quarter century of rule. What happens when contexts change, when commercial entertainment and print replace the court or an exclusive circle of connoisseurs? It was one thing to be a connoisseur and another to be a practitioner. They carried themselves offhandedly, like connoisseurs and braggarts. Ceremonies and feasts are an occasion to taste wines and to discuss wine among connoisseurs. It emerged where it allowed particular wines to join aristocratic segments with connoisseur information systems to constitute quality wine markets. The young chief executive, who relished the centralized authority, became a connoisseur of power. This points to a circle of connoisseurs who, alone, could have appreciated such provocative effects. Possibly this is because the virtuosi did not always think or behave in ways that one might expect from a connoisseur. We historians are indeed connoisseurs of contingency, but we are also connoisseurs of narrative structure. A circumstance that the public will perhaps learn with pleasure should render this music precious to true connoisseurs. Not the money and title of the great, not even the worthy praise of the connoisseur, is as pleasing a reward as the voice of an entire nation. As a consequence, art was increasingly available to all, rather than being restricted to a small group of connoisseurs who had access to private collections, galleries and select performances. Artist or model, connoisseur or clown, he or she served as a conduit for the subversive ambivalence that must attend all genuine artistic experience, however benign or controlled. These prints, from which so much was expected, were not only cheaper and readily available, but of a dramatically lower quality than the kinds connoisseurs had admired for centuries. 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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