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美:[ɪn'dʒinɪrslɪ]
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词根:ingenious
adj.ingenious 有独创性的;机灵的,精制的;心灵手巧的
adjective
having or showing an unusual aptitude for discovering, inventing, or contriving
an ingenious detective
marked by originality, resourcefulness, and cleverness in conception or execution
an ingenious contraption
obsolete showing or calling for intelligence, aptitude, or discernment
Middle English ingenyous, from Middle French ingenieus, from Latin ingeniosus, from ingenium natural capacity — more at engine >entry 1
The first known use of ingenious was in the 15th century
ingeniousadjective
having or showing ingenuity : very clever
an ingenious plan
ingeniousadjective
having or showing ingenuity : very clever
an ingenious plan
1 The words clearly inspired Mr. Abrahamsen to write music that ingeniously combines modernist astringencies, harmonic richness and strangely beautiful atmospheric colorings.
2 “The Imperfectionists” is a splendid original, filled with wit and structured so ingeniously that figuring out where the author is headed is half the reader’s fun.
3 Their plans include decorations, music and festive meals of roast meats, casseroles and charcuterie boards — most of it prepared, ingeniously, in the confines of the truck.
4 Those raw lyrics from “Institutionalized” — my favorite song from the early ’80s hardcore band Suicidal Tendencies — kept moshing in my head as I watched this darkly funny and ingeniously affecting comedy-thriller.
5 Then, just shy of an hour and a half into the piece—which features helium-powered zeppelins, wildly gyrating light installations, and a vast, ingeniously employed scrim—the sheep materialized, drumming hoofs first.
6 In this piece, choreographed by Manuel Vignouelle and twice as long as anything else on the program, four dancers in white turtlenecks expressed the difficulty of human connection with ingeniously entangled limbs and nuzzling.
7 Faking her death, she returns to punish her attackers by ingeniously repurposing their recreational tools, including fish hooks, bear traps and garden shears.
8 It wasn’t supper-club-style scat, either — but an ingeniously shaped solo, concluding with some darting phrases that earned one of the night’s biggest rounds of applause.
9 And while Gehrmann’s Chicago appears in a grim graytones throughout, she ingeniously colors bits and pieces a light red that throbs.
10 Like her paintings they are small-scale, spry and ingeniously balanced.
11 “The Bullet” has an ingeniously simple premise, and the confounding, downright creepy aspects of Caroline’s predicament are amply engaging.
12 As we try to put our best faces forward on social media, “Basic” ingeniously reminds us how often our assumptions are wildly inaccurate.
13 That question is mischievously posed, and ingeniously answered, in a recent post on "YouNotSneaky", an economics blog.
最近一个经济栏博客上就贴出了这么淘气的为问题,而回答也是很巧妙的。
14 To their credit, this time, they’ve rather ingeniously managed to find a link between reproductive rights issues and veganism.
15 These esoteric pleasures aside, the buildings worked in the same way as Gothic cathedrals and guildhalls – asymmetrical, heraldic, worked into compositions of skylines and towers, often crammed ingeniously into tight, constricted sites.
16 Blues It has a Rollins feel, and Blues for Eight an ingeniously byzantine melody that Pope develops in slithers and smears.
17 David Korins’s ingeniously dynamic set glides from locale to locale, with big movable beams forming a picture frame that roves and reframes scenes as flexibly as a movie camera.
18 Either way, Corax ingeniously argued, he would have to be paid.
19 In effect, surface and structure ingeniously become one, while creating a very alluring patch of shade.
20 This 30-minute fantasy in three movements is one of Schumann’s most ingeniously structured scores, yet Mr. Denk kept you engrossed every moment by fantastical, dreamy, and, in the rousing march movement, giddily energetic flights.
1 有才能
2 机敏
ready alert cute clever agile sparky dexterous quick-witted adroit dextrous sharply smartly dexterously dextrously agility dexterity alertness quickness cleverness
3 机敏地
5 灵巧
clever neat nifty crafty dexterous adroit dextrous cleverly nimbly dexterously dextrously cunning dexterity cleverness artifice neatness
6 灵巧地