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单词 prodigy
释义
prodigy
noun[C]
uk
/ˈprɒd.ɪ.dʒi/us
/ˈprɑː.də.dʒi/
someone with a verygreatabilitythat usuallyshowsitself when thatpersonis ayoungchild:
奇才，天才
The 16-year-oldtennisprodigy is theyoungestplayerevertoreachtheOlympicfinals.这位16岁的网球天才是迄今打进奥林匹克决赛的最年轻的选手。
Hereadin thepaperabout amathematicalprodigy who wasattendinguniversityat theageof twelve.他在报纸上看到一则12岁就上大学的数学奇才的报道。
See also
child prodigy
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
an intelligent person
  • geniusThe system must have been designed by a mathematical genius.
  • prodigyHe was something of a prodigy on the piano.
  • child prodigyShe was labelled as a child prodigy by her early teachers.
  • eggheadThe eggheads at the University have been working on this for years.
  • brainsThe well-known comedian is the brains behind the new sitcom.
  • whizz-kidUKThey hired some uni whizz-kid to lead the firm.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Experts and specialists
  • academician
  • artist
  • authority
  • boffin
  • child prodigy
  • doyen
  • doyenne
  • historiographer
  • hotshot
  • knowsomethinginside outidiom
  • lapidary
  • literati
  • pyrotechnician
  • Renaissance man
  • savant
  • semiotician
  • skilled
  • whizz
  • wonder
  • wunderkind
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(Definition ofprodigyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

prodigy| American Dictionary

prodigy
noun[C]
us
/ˈprɑd·ɪ·dʒi/
achildwhoshowsagreatabilityat ayoungage:
achildprodigy on thepiano
(Definition ofprodigyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprodigy

prodigy
But she had been a literaryprodigyin her youth so tinges of the glory remained.
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Both accounts try to determine the importance of nature versus environment in producing musical prodigies.
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The childprodigywho's no longer a child.
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For the participant who had been 'somewhat of a childprodigy' there was the challenge of being 'back in the pot' with everyone else.
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The studio audience murmurs that no one can outdo such aprodigyof memory.
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Perhaps the otherwise puzzling phenomena of child prodigies (where, say, musical skills are manifest at very young ages) are cases of this sort.
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The form of thisprodigyhas, therefore, looked much like an icicle.
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He was no infantprodigyand had composed very little until his late teens.
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Within these limits, the supernatural is destined to remain an intruder, aprodigy, and a monster.
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I have been following all the newspaper correspondents and the prodigies they have performed with their pen are inconceivable.
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He must have been a childprodigywith a vengeance.
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There are very few infant theological prodigies, thank goodness!
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Arts are not solely for the infant prodigies on the violin.
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Prodigyis a three-year research and development project the results of which will not be known until late 1997.
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By the way, it is vital that those who are infant prodigies on the violin should have an educated audience to play to or indeed an audience at all.
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