intellectual

英 [ˌɪntəˈlektʃuəl]

美 [ˌɪntəˈlektʃuəl]

adj.  智力的; 脑力的; 理智的; 有才智的; 智力发达的
n.  知识分子; 脑力劳动者

复数：intellectuals　

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牛津词典

adj.

• 智力的；脑力的；理智的
  connected with or using a person's ability to think in a logical way and understand things
  1. intellectual curiosity
     求知欲
  2. an intellectual novel
     推理小说
• 有才智的；智力发达的
  well educated and enjoying activities in which you have to think seriously about things
  1. She's very intellectual.
     她很聪慧。

noun

• 知识分子；脑力劳动者
  a person who is well educated and enjoys activities in which they have to think seriously about things

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 智力的;脑力的;理智的
  Intellectualmeans involving a person's ability to think and to understand ideas and information.
  1. High levels of lead could damage the intellectual development of children...
     铅含量过高会损害儿童的智力发展。
  2. He has written seven thrillers, and clearly enjoys intellectual pursuits.
     他已经写了7本惊悚小说,显然很喜欢这样的智力活动。
• N-COUNT 知识分子;脑力劳动者
  Anintellectualis someone who spends a lot of time studying and thinking about complicated ideas.
  1. ...teachers, artists and other intellectuals.
     教师、艺术家和其他知识分子
  2. Intellectualis also an adjective.
     
  3. They were very intellectual and witty.
     他们才思敏捷，风趣诙谐。
  4. ...an intellectual elite.
     知识分子精英

英英释义

noun

• a person who uses the mind creatively
  Synonym:intellect

adj

• appealing to or using the intellect
  1. satire is an intellectual weapon
  2. intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor
  3. has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people
  4. coldly intellectual
  5. sort of the intellectual type
  6. intellectual literature
• of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind
  1. intellectual problems
  2. the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man
  Synonym:rationalnoetic
• involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct
  1. a cerebral approach to the problem
  2. cerebral drama
  Synonym:cerebral

双语例句

• Newton was an intellectual giant.
  牛顿是一个智力巨人。
• They had a snobbish dislike for their intellectual and social inferiors
  他们非常势利，不喜欢智力和社会地位不如自己的人。
• How do we recapture the intellectual high ground?
  我们如何才能重新在智力上获得优势呢？
• Without continued learning, graduates will lose their intellectual vitality
  如果不继续学习，毕业生就会失去思想上的活力。
• She was a fiery, brilliant and unyielding intellectual and politician
  她是个充满激情、才华卓越、毫不妥协的知识分子和政治家。
• She has the intellectual form to take up the mantle of leadership.
  她具备担当领导职责的聪明才智。
• You have an intellectual rapport, a kind of easy companionship that makes me really jealous.
  你机智友善、平易近人，真是让我嫉妒。
• Surrounded by mediocrities, he can seem a towering intellectual.
  在周围一群泛泛之辈的衬托之下，他就像一个鹤立鸡群的智者。
• These advances were the result of the intellectual appliance of science.
  这些进步是巧妙应用科学的结果。
• As far as mathematicians are concerned, there's a certain virtue in wearing intellectual blinkers
  就数学家们来说，用学者的眼光来看问题不无裨益。