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。
• Sagacity, unlike cleverness, may increase with age.
  睿智与聪明不同，前者可与年龄俱增。
• 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。
• The sagacity of the man of business perceived an advantage here, and determined to hold it.
  生意人的精明在这里看出了一个有利条件，他决心抓住。
• 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。
• Sometimes he listened with dignified interest to details of her businesses, nodding approval at her sagacity, and at other times he called her somewhat dubious tradings scavenging, highway robbery and extortion.
  有时候他很认真的仔细听她述说生意中的各项细节，点头称赞她办事有头脑，有时候他就把她那些不是很正当的做法叫做捡便宜，叫做投机取巧。
• With the sad and innocent sagacity of childhood, Cosette measured the abyss which separated her from that doll.
  珂赛特用她那天真悲愁的智慧去估计那道横亘在她和那玩偶间的深渊。
• In a word, the trained sagacity and untiring caution of himself were all he had to rely on, amid the critical risks he unavoidably ran.
  总之，在他所冒的不可避免的危险中，他除了自己那训练有素的机警和不懈的谨慎以外是一无所恃的。
• 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。
• 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。