ingenuity的意思|ingenuity的解释-里氏词典

ingenuity [`ɪndʒə'nuətɪ]

n. 心灵手巧, 精巧, 精巧设计

ingenuity

[ noun ]

the power of creative imagination

<noun.cognition>

the property of being ingenious

<noun.attribute>

a plot of great ingenuity

the cleverness of its design

Ingenuity \In`ge*nu"i*ty\, n. [L. ingenuitas ingenuousness: cf.
F. ing['e]nuit['e]. See {Ingenuous}.]
1. The quality or power of ready invention; quickness or
acuteness in forming new combinations; ingeniousness;
skill in devising or combining.

All the means which human ingenuity has contrived.
--Blair.

2. Curiousness, or cleverness in design or contrivance; as,
the ingenuity of a plan, or of mechanism.

He gives . . .
To artist ingenuity and skill. --Cowper.

3. Openness of heart; ingenuousness. [Obs.]

The stings and remorses of natural ingenuity, a
principle that men scarcely ever shake off, as long
as they carry anything of human nature about them.
--South.

Syn: Inventiveness; ingeniousness; skill; cunning;
cleverness; genius.

Usage: {Ingenuity}, {Cleverness}. Ingenuity is a form of
genius, and cleverness of talent. The former implies
invention, the letter a peculiar dexterity and
readiness of execution. Sir James Mackintosh remarks
that the English overdo in the use of the word clever
and cleverness, applying them loosely to almost every
form of intellectual ability.

Indeed, for companies that can't spend a lot to catch consumers' attention, ingenuity goes a long way.
'Strikes, human rights issues and land issues will tax the ingenuity of the political leadership'. Sustained economic growth, most delegates argued, would allow countries to meet their domestic political challenges.
Style-conscious dogs may need more of their own sartorial ingenuity next year.
We salute his taste and his ingenuity." The Joffrey Ballet, appearing in Chicago, dedicated Friday night's performance to its founder.
So much for Yankee ingenuity.
People's time, ingenuity and commitment will only be forthcoming if the giving of these is not going to put them out of work.' He added: 'Admittedly, the line between voluntary and compulsory can be thin.
Add a computer, credit cards and 800-prefix phone numbers and you have the main ingredients for an enterprise that's one of the wonders of the Western world _ direct-mail marketing as refined, with amazing ingenuity, in the United States.
"We've just kind of forgotten to teach the children the old American ingenuity," says Rowe, 44. The program was started by the privately funded U.S. Patent Model Foundation in Washington.
Mr. Suskind's misanthropic message isn't the newest of ideas, but his ingenuity packs it with fresh power.
Even allowing for widely divergent tastes, visitors cannot but admire the ingenuity and often audacity of the architects who have been given free rein with their creative talents. The Sheraton has clearly set out to impress.
The president had said "the private sector, with its ingenuity and cost effectiveness" will take over commercial business.
It depends on the ingenuity." Novosad said Avon will test the method in Guangzhou before trying other parts of China.
Investors and passengers are waiting to see whether Frank Lorenzo will display the same ingenuity in managing the nation's largest airline company that he showed in building it.
The ingenuity of MGN's managers in unearthing expansion opportunities will be fully tested. At least MGN can keep profits moving by running its existing businesses more efficiently.
In truth, capital gains concern anyone who inherited or purchased a few shares of stock or a house or who in almost any other way built a financial estate through ingenuity, hard work or just luck.
The believers frequently show remarkable ingenuity in explaining away evidence that Santa doesn't exist, the researchers found.
"There is mechanism enough about it to lift the drawbridge of a citadel," Walpole wrote of his prize, "and one grieves that such complicated ingenuity should have been employed for the simple operation of unlocking a door."
The plan outlined by Coastal, a company noted for ingenuity and aggressiveness, would appear to give Coastal control of TransAmerican's vast reserves with no immediate cash outlay.
Like Lalo and his arms makers, guerrilla doctors also demonstrate great ingenuity.
Alastair Galbraith's Sid is alarmingly close to home. To make a soap opera convincing in a pub takes much ingenuity.
He will have to match Mr Lamont's ingenuity if he is to devise a more attractive-looking deal. Mr Kinnock told us just before Christmas that Tory tax cuts would be restored.
It would take a great deal of ingenuity to design a comprehensive system to measure capital flows, but it is worth the effort.
Keeping these vehicles rolling also requires considerable ingenuity.
But every time America strikes back with microchip cartels or trade barriers or Japan-bashing, it hits itself in the toe. How about some retaliation with a little Yankee ingenuity, like a Super 301 green card?
And he has little faith in NATO's ingenuity.
"On the one hand, this is a story of good old American ingenuity," says Sam McMullen, a vice president of Harrah's.
To fit the roughly 500,000 lines of code for dBASE IV (four times the size of its predecessor) into the standard memory limitation of the operating system requires ingenuity.
But they despaired about being able to separate in practice the return from owning land, on the one hand, from the yield to the capital and ingenuity spent on improving it, on the other.
Many, but not all, of the components are individually expensive but the ideas come free and can, with some ingenuity, be re-invented at home.
Most top people in the savings industry will not look forward to testing their powers of ingenuity under Labour.

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