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

• 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。
• The resulting publicity changed Savant's life.
  随之而来的宣传改变了莎凡特的生活。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 10 A savant is revealed, a man who has created new forms for old symbols that have lost their meaning.
  一位学者出现了，为那些已丧失它们意义的旧符号创造了新的表现形式。
• Knowing all this makes high IQs and the story of Marilyn vos Savant seem rather different.
  了解了所有这些之后，令高智商人群和玛丽莲沃斯莎凡特的故事看似相当不同。
• Objective to investigate the characteristics of cognitive evoked potentials in mental retardation and idiot savant.
  目的研究精神发育迟缓和白痴学者认知电位的特征。
• But savant had not made a mistake.
  但莎凡特没有犯错。