sagacity

英 [səˈɡæsəti]

美 [səˈɡæsəti]

n.  聪慧;精明;有决策力

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BNC.34212 / COCA.35237

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 聪慧;精明;有决策力
  Sagacityis the quality of being sagacious.
  1. ...a man of great sagacity and immense experience.
     精明练达、阅历丰富的人

英英释义

noun

• the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating
  Synonym:judiciousnesssagaciousness
• the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
  Synonym:sagaciousnessjudgmentjudgementdiscernment

双语例句

• It needs no great sagacity to see that the writer is a novice at his task.
  很容易看得出来那位作家是一位生手，刚从事写作的。
• The politician showed a good sagacity in avoiding the mistakes he'd made in the previous campaign.
  这回，那位政治家精明的避免了上一次选举中犯过的错误。
• Sagacity, unlike cleverness, usually increases with age.
  明智跟聪明不同，一般是随着年龄增加的。
• 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.
  年轻的姑娘们对这些事情总是非常精明；可是即使以你这样的机灵，我看你还是猜不出你那位爱人姓甚名谁。
• Oh, indeed! Well, then, I must trust to my own sagacity.
  噢，确实！那么，我就只能靠自己的智慧了。
• Nor should we be under any illusions about the innate sagacity of the old-fashioned British banker.
  我们也不应该对旧式英国银行家的天生睿智抱有幻想。
• And who is this paragon of musical sagacity?
  这个对音乐如此敏锐的人是谁？
• Gavroche balanced on his heels, clenched both fists in his pockets, moved his neck around like a bird, expended in a gigantic pout all the sagacity of his lower lip.
  伽弗洛什立在脚跟上左右摇晃，把两个拳头捏紧在他的衣袋里，象只小鸟似的转动着脑袋，用他下嘴唇表现的全部机敏做了一个其丑无比的撇嘴丑脸。
• We hear a great deal of the sagacity of our modern princes of commerce and we flatter ourselves that it is our own era that has given birth to this intrepid race of men.
  我们听说过很多关于我们现代商业王子们的睿智并且我们会抬举我们自己是这个时代这群勇敢无畏的人们的后代。
• My grandfather is venerable for his age, his uprightness, and sagacity.
  我祖父以他的年长，正直和睿智而受人尊敬。