Sagacity
[sə'gæsɪtɪ] or [sə'gæsəti]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations.
伊莎贝拉錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness.
編輯:瑞伊
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Sagaciousness, quickness of scent.[2]. Shrewdness, acuteness, sharpness, astuteness, penetration, ingenuity, discernment, perspicacity, sense, insight, mother-wit, quick parts.
亨廷顿編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Its sagacity is wonderful. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I know none whose knowledge, sagacity, and impartiality qualify him so thoroughly for such a service as yours do you. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Mr. Pickwick, with his usual foresight and sagacity, had chosen a peculiarly desirable moment for his visit to the borough. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- It was in these circumstances that Edison's sagacity and breadth of business capacity came to the front. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- It would be an insult to his sagacity to offer directions. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Caroline no more showed such wounding sagacity or reproachful sensitiveness now than she had done when a suckling of three months old. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Finally comes one of Tycho's hunting dogs--very faithful and sagacious; he serves here as a hieroglyph of his master's nobility as well as of sagacity and fidelity. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The sagacity of the man of business perceived an advantage here, and determined to hold it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- I had sagacity enough to discover, that the unnatural hideousness of my person was the chief object of horror with those who had formerly beheld me. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Now, I have had very little pleasure at our dear Richard's lately, and your practical sagacity demonstrates why. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Young ladies have great penetration in such matters as these; but I think I may defy even _your_ sagacity, to discover the name of your admirer. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Margaret's sagacity was not always displayed in a way so satisfactory to her sister. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- No one ever had more ample materials for the discrimination of the species, or could have worked on them with more zeal and sagacity. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Quality and treatment were enormously dependent upon the experience and sagacity of the individual iron worker. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- My sagacity was not at fault--it never is. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
整理:薇尔玛