polymath

1 Even now, a fair amount of this curious polymath’s more specialized writing remains in manuscript.

2 “It’s the last hour, and I’m feeling the energy draining,” Taylor Mac, the performing arts polymath, announced near the end of a recent rehearsal at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

3 For a very good reason: he is the greatest artist who ever lived. Still, the amount of news that can be generated about a long-dead polymath is startling.

这是基于一个好理由：他是人类历史上最杰出的艺术家，即便如此，围绕这样一位去世已久的博物学家所产生的新闻数目之多仍然令人瞠目。

4 James writes that “half the secret of public life is not to blur the image” — true, no doubt, though this wide-ranging polymath has obviously ignored his own insight.

5 Mr. Sivan — born in South Africa, and raised in Australia — may well be the prototype for tomorrow’s global pop star, an easeful polymath who manages to make big moments feel intimate.

6 Sinclair, which was a hideout for rum runners and smugglers of opium and Chinese laborers a century ago, has always been a magnet for polymaths and exiles of one sort or another.

7 For about a decade, the Australian polymath has been surfing the time stream, venturing into psychedelia with a choir boy’s voice, impeccable melodies and wall-of-sound sonics.

8 Would Anthony Grafton, I wonder, qualify as one of our current polymaths?

9 This British polymath has become a major musical figure, lauded for his operas “Powder Her Face” and “The Tempest,” which was performed at the Metropolitan Opera in 2012.

10 He who seize the right moment, is the right man. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and polymath.

谁把握机遇，谁就心想事成- - -约翰·沃尔夫冈。冯。歌德，德国作家和学者。

11 Reconciling these seemingly disparate styles of music came naturally to Ms. York, a polymath who delighted in synthesizing philosophy, poetry, politics and song in front of an audience.

12 As he resumed his studies, Farmer discovered the work of a little-known German physician, biologist, philosopher, anthropologist, and politician—a polymath—named Rudolf Virchow.

13 But a mere mention of the 19th-century Tuscan noble and polymath to European scholars still has the power to provoke hand-wringing and despair.

14 A polymath with a gift for communicating complex ideas straightforwardly, Professor Schorske was renowned for his lectures and classroom presence.

15 It seems that the polymath Mr. Leaman has never stopped competing, at least with himself, and the selection at Bakery Nouveau borders on overwhelming.

16 Mr. Otway is a courtly polymath of 55 who has been, at various times, a theater operator, a lawyer, a harp player, a model-boat builder and a war photographer.

17 Nekrasova, 30, is a self-styled provocateur and artistic polymath whom fans of the recently completed season of “Succession” will recognize as Comfrey, the crisis public-relations rep put through hell by Kendall Roy.

18 But the cultural momentum is with the likes of former understudy John Oliver, whose polymath essay-rants on HBO’s Last Week Tonight take sides fervently and often end with calls to action, not moments of Zen.

19 Llewelyn was a polymath, an expert in life sciences, botany and more.

20 Mr. Kahane is known as a highbrow polymath: an accomplished new-music composer who also plays an array of instruments and writes pop songs of theatrical effect.

1 博学之士

savant

2 博学者

highbrow repository pundit