Ingenious
[ɪn'dʒiːnɪəs] or [ɪn'dʒinɪəs]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; skillful or promp to invent; having an aptitude to contrive, or to form new combinations; as, an ingenious author, mechanic.
(a.) Proseeding from, pertaining to, or characterized by, genius or ingenuity; of curious design, structure, or mechanism; as, an ingenious model, or machine; an ingenious scheme, contrivance, etc.
(a.) Witty; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious; as, an ingenious reply.
(a.) Mental; intellectual.
校對:塞尔玛
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Inventive, gifted, able, sagacious, clever, bright.[2]. That shows invention, exhibiting ingenuity.
桃乐茜編輯
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Skillful, adept, clever, inventive, ready, frank, sincere
ANT:Unskillful, slow, uninventive, unready
埃德加整理
解釋/意思:
adj. of good natural abilities: skilful in inventing: witty.—adv. Ingē′niously.—ns. Ingē′niousness Ingenū′ity power of ready invention: facility in combining ideas: curiousness in design; Ingē′nium bent of mind.
編輯:迈尔斯
例句/造句/用法:
- Ingenious forms of hand-operated ironing machines for turning over and ironing the edges of collars, and other articles, are in successful use. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- I thank you for your ingenious paper in favour of the trees. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The list would be too long to simply name all the ingenious machines there exhibited and subsequently invented for every important operation. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- About a month before this period, some ingenious Frenchman had completed the discovery in the manner originally proposed by Dr. Franklin. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Don't go on posturing like a Deaf and Dumb School,' said the ingenious Fledgeby, 'but express yourself like a Christian--or as nearly as you can. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- To overcome these three disturbing factors a very ingenious form of balance has been devised. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- In this field of telegraph application, as in others, Edison was a very early comer, his only predecessor being the fertile and ingenious Callahan, of stock-ticker fame. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- By another ingenious device the cord was tied and cut, when the sewing was completed. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The picture of a different state of things does not always function to aid ingenious observation and recollection to find a way out and on. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- I can't deny, I said, that the plan you propose meets the difficulty in a way that is very daring, and very ingenious, and very new. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Then, his preaching was ingenious and pithy, like the preaching of the English Church in its robust age, and his sermons were delivered without book. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- It was a very ingenious device, and Hargreaves deserved the greatest credit for the skill with which he solved the problem. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- A house-carpenter seems to exercise rather a nicer and a more ingenious trade than a mason. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The method was no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his accomplice's hair. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- This iron shell is put in place segmentally by means of a shield, an ingenious mechanism which both protects the work under construction and assists in the building of the iron shell. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Cotton’s Compleat Gamster published in 1674, refers to billiards as This most gentle, cleanly and ingenious game. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The chewing gum wrapping machine is considered by machinery builders to be one of the most ingenious automatic manufacturing machines in use. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- It requires several ship loads of wood to supply the requirements of Lucifer-match makers; and ingenious contrivances have been patented for cutting it up into splints of the proper size. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- This brings us to the gist of the ingenious way in which Edison substituted the action of electrochemical decomposition for that of the electromagnet to operate a relay. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- As it is impossible to make a perfectly round ball and have the weight equally distributed, the ball can not roll true; an ingenious device overcomes the difficulty. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- He is an ingenious fellow, too: he invented a machine for the cleaning of hemp--a really valuable affair; it's gone into use in several factories. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Each of these different articles require very ingenious machines. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- This, in connection with an ingenious management of springs, absorbed the shocks and governed the machine so that no matter what was done to it, it would operate only at a certain speed. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The success of Mr. Sowerberry's ingenious speculation, exceeded even his most sanguine hopes. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- By an ingenious arrangement of the mechanism, the film moves intermittently so that it may have a much longer period of rest than of motion. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He had hit on a more ingenious mode of parrying than he was aware of. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- My acquaintance with ingenious people in the town increased. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- This ingenious article itself, without the elegant domino-box, card-basket, .c. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- It was a brave conception; it was the offspring of a most ingenious brain. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- We must not conclude this notice of Paper Making Machinery without alluding to the ingenious self-acting mechanisms for making envelopes. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
編輯:迈尔斯