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

• 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。
• At one point, for example, Savant was describing a house where she lived in St Louis.
  例如，有一次，莎凡特在描述她在圣路易斯住的房子。
• Depending on how you look at it, savant will either never be beaten, or was not worth beating in the first place.
  莎凡特要么是永远无法击败，要么从一开始就不值得被击败，这取决于你如何看待了。
• 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。
• The resulting publicity changed Savant's life.
  随之而来的宣传改变了莎凡特的生活。
• He has since been diagnosed as one of only 40 with acquired savant syndrome, in which once-normal people become skilled in math, art or music after a brain injury.
  此后，他被诊断为后天学者症候群，现在全世界约有40个病例。患此症的人大多原本平常无奇，但脑部受伤后来会对数学、艺术或音乐十分擅长。
• She joined Mensa, she says, to help her educate her children, but most of the time Savant was busy keeping the family accounts.
  她说，她加入了门撒协会，以便帮助她教育自己孩子，但大部分时间，莎凡特很忙，管理家庭账务。
• We usually dance more, a lot more, said Savant as they are leaving.
  我们通常会跳得更多，多很多，离开时莎凡特说。
• 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。
• They are also scholars, each savant a master of one or more fields of study.
  他们也是学者，每个博学长老都是一个或者几个研究领域的大师。