ingenious的意思|ingenious的解释-里氏词典

ingenious [in'dʒi:njәs]

a. 灵敏的, 精巧的, 聪明的

ingenious

[ adj ]
showing inventiveness and skill
<adj.all>
a clever gadgetthe cunning maneuvers leading to his success
an ingenious solution to the problem

Ingenious \In*gen"ious\, a. [L. ingeniosus, fr. ingenium innate
or natural quality, natural capacity, genius: cf. F.
ing['e]nieux. See {Engine}.]
1. Possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; skillful
or promp to invent; having an aptitude to contrive, or to
form new combinations; as, an ingenious author, mechanic.

A man . . . very wise and ingenious in feats of war.
--Hakluyt.

Thou, king, send out
For torturers ingenious. --Shak.

The more ingenious men are, the more apt are they to
trouble themselves. --Sir W.
Temple.

2. Proceeding from, pertaining to, or characterized by,
genius or ingenuity; of curious design, structure, or
mechanism; as, an ingenious model, or machine; an
ingenious scheme, contrivance, etc.

Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill. --Cowper.

3. Witty; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious; as, an ingenious
reply.

4. Mental; intellectual. [Obs.]

A course of learning and ingenious studies. --Shak.

For a biography of this difficult artist that captures the man's spirit, the ingenious sparkle that subdued his enemies and found its way into all those marvelous novels, readers unfamiliar with Waugh may prefer Mr. Sykes's less exacting volume.
Forte has discovered some ingenious ways of expanding in Europe without committing much cash but necessity is the mother of invention.
The rising price of land has all but aborted some ingenious attempts at keeping housing prices under control or affordable to a larger number of people.
I won't give away the most ingenious moment of gremlinatrics: Just remember, don't leave the theater too soon.
'Mr Benjamin Allen fell fast asleep: while Mr Bob Sawyer abstracted his thoughts from wordly matters by the ingenious process of carving his name on the seat of the pew.'
But there may be no escape from this difficulty unless the corporations involved are even more creative than directors of those old movies, and certainly more ingenious they have been to date.
The task group has been ingenious in weaving together the regulatory and voluntary traditions.
Through ingenious comparisons he is able to expose hideous holes in arguments and subject his opponents to sneers and embarrassment.
Over a career spanning almost a quarter-century, P.D. James, a former British civil servant, has earned the title of "Queen of Crime" with a string of page-turners memorable more for their sense of people and place than ingenious plotting.
In the south is the Cotswolds water park, flooded gravel workings which are claimed to have a greater water area than the Norfolk Broads. We took the Romantic Road, an ingenious route through quiet Cotswold lanes devised by Cheltenham Tourism.
This is an ingenious method to prevent GE Capital becoming responsible for GPA's liabilities. In fact, the same people will operate the business, the new company, GE Capital Aviation Services, being staffed by GPA employees.
But the most ingenious way developed to deal with the whale's ills has been the whale wetsuit, designed to maintain the body temperature of the warm-blooded sea creature.
Among other things, they and director Renny Harlin have staged a brutally ingenious dogfight in the baggage area, using luggage as both shield and weapon.
But the politicians will control the size of the differential. It all looks ingenious, and ministers are convinced that it will work.
The suggested solution is ingenious: that anyone should be free to set up in competition to Royal Mail, provided there is the same commitment to universal service.
Her brother, Pete (Stephen Kearney), is a talented inventor unable to hold a regular job, enraging his stuffy, wealthy father by working as a paperboy and using an ingenious mechanical folder on his rounds.
The one thing everyone seems to agree on is that Denmark did obtain significant concessions, and that to squeeze these through without amending the treaty required ingenious legal draftsmanship. The truth is slightly different.
This is the new Mafia Family as director Jonathan Demme envisions it in this ingenious new comedy: slightly dizzy nouveau riche who, like many young entrepreneurs, regard business as sport, the more trophies the better.
Fortunately, the Founding Fathers wrote an ingenious check and balance into the Constitution that allows the states to bypass Congress.
So Edison decided to try to devise a so-called expert system that would ape the engineer's ingenious reasoning.
He may also have been lulled by ingenious and plausible German disinformation.
The female-run project seems an ingenious and thriving success although water supply is always precarious.
BESSA LSE, to be launched next week, will buy property for the London School of Economics. Govett BES Assetbuilder 2 is one of the most ingenious schemes.
Its value isn't in the sand from which it is made, but in the microscopic architecture designed into it by ingenious human minds.
Keith Cummings and Anna Dickinson often combine glass with metal, Tatiana Best-Devereux glass with ceramic. The problem here is that too few makers know what to do with their skill and ingenious effects.
So far, 50 of them - from the leading multi-nationals to small niche marketers - have agreed to participate. Their solutions range from the obvious to the ingenious.
France's minister of economy and finance, Edouard Balladur, said "it's necessary for Brazil to go to the Fund," meaning the IMF, although he also termed Brazil's new debt proposal "ingenious."
The newspaper does some ingenious trading instead, Grigoriev said, but he refused to reveal the source for fear it would dry up.
A few who were threatened with bank sanctions came up with an ingenious solution.
The ersatz Ernest contest was sponsored by Harry's Bar & American Grill, whose ingenious milking of an extremely tenuous Hemingway connection deserves induction into the Publicists' Hall of Fame.

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