nous

英 [naʊs]

美 [naʊs]

n.  智力; 理性; 常识

医学

BNC.33900 / COCA.24853

牛津词典

noun

• 智力；理性；常识
  intelligence and the ability to think and act in a practical way

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 智力;常识;理性
  Nousis intelligence or common sense.
  1. Few ministers have the nous or the instinct required to understand the ramifications...
     没有几个大臣具备理解这些后果所需要的理性或直觉。
  2. He is a man of extraordinary vitality, driving ambition and political nous.
     他是一个精力非凡、志向远大、政治上很有见识的人。

英英释义

noun

• that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings
  1. his mind wandered
  2. I couldn't get his words out of my head
  Synonym:mindheadbrainpsyche
• common sense
  1. she has great social nous

双语例句

• Parts of this story are familiar, but the authors bring to it an impressive wealth of analytical detail and political nous.
  故事的某些内容已为人所熟知，但两位作者赋予了故事丰富的分析细节和政治掌故，给人留下了深刻印象。
• As the core conception of Italian Renaissance Art theories, disegno put emphasis on nous spirit and is more wider than the conception of drawing in common use.
  “迪塞诺”是意大利文艺复兴时期艺术理论中的一个核心概念，它强调绘画的理性精神，比现在通用的素描的概念更为宽泛一些。
• He is a man of extraordinary vitality, driving ambition and political nous.
  他是一个精力非凡、志向远大、政治上很有见识的人。
• An attempt has been made in this disquisition to explore the cause of the construction and study of a new knowledge view in the modern knowledge society with a viewpoint that the traditional nous dimensionality, bloor's social dimensionality and rouse's practical dimensionality might be integrated together.
  本文对现代知识社会建构新的知识观的研究进路进行了尝试性探索，认为可以把传统的理性维度和布鲁尔的社会维度、劳斯的实践维度结合在一起。
• But other countries, with less financial nous and more debt, face red.
  而其它那些金融常识不足，债务绰绰有余的国家，就得面对红灯。
• Born in Hong Kong in 1947, Dr Chan initially studied home economics at college; few then would have predicted that commitment and political nous would propel her into the top job in international public health.
  陈冯富珍1947年出生于香港，大学最初念家政学那时谁也料不到，凭着敬业和政治悟性，她会登上国际公共卫生领域的头把交椅。
• This will require conviction as well as nous.
  这将需要信念与机敏两者兼备。
• But without new obligations, some doubt the most flawed retail banks will have the nous to reform.
  但有些人怀疑，在缺乏新约束的情况下，多数存在缺陷的零售银行不会拥有改革的意愿。
• Bureaucrats with little investment nous are in charge.
  在其位的，是那些缺乏投资常识的官僚。
• In the general sense it means that nous or spirit ( the more profound idea of nous in modern thought) is the cause of the world.
  广义来说，这话意思是，心灵或精神（精神意指心灵之较深刻的意义）是世界的原因。