Picture an ability that was not built up step by step — it seems to have been there from the start, and it goes far beyond what training alone produces. English lets that ability stand as a thing on its own, or lets the person carrying it take the same name.
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原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
geniusnoun/ˈd͡ʒiː.ni.əs/
- 1
Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art, etc.
- She's a genius; she won a Nobel Prize at fifteen!
- Marx stand höher, sah weiter, überblickte mehr und rascher als wir andern alle. Marx war ein Genie, wir andern höchstens Talente.
- 2
Extraordinary mental capacity.
- Excuse, therefore, the shortcomings of genius under the sudorific influence of the summer solstice; for be assured that the vertical sun, however it may dulcify and mature cherries, plums, and other fruitful ‘plumpitudes,’ is by no means favorable to the development of intellectual products.
- In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
- 3
Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.
- a work of genius
- to add a dash of cinnamon amid such umami was pure genius
- 4
human-sciencesmysticismmythologyThe tutelary deity or spirit of a place or person.
- and the genius of the place: the growing enthusiasm for codified standards in the Army and Navy
- We talk of genius still, but with thought how changed! The genius of Augustus was a tutelary demon, to be sworn by and to receive offerings on an altar as a deity.
geniusadj/ˈd͡ʒiː.ni.əs/
- 1
informalIngenious, brilliant, very clever, or original.
- What a genius idea!
- Bjarte Birkeland asserts that the reason why Nynorsk writers of fiction have succeeded in coming so close to naked life is not that they are more genius than authors writing in Bokmal, but that they are using their mother tongue
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