sapient
英 ['se?p??nt]
美['sep??nt]
- adj. 聰明的；伶俐的；裝聰明樣的；有見識的
- n. （史前的）智人
GRE暢通詞匯
詞態變化
副詞:?sapiently;名詞:?sapience;
中文詞源
sapient 睿智的，博學的
來自拉丁語 sapere,品嘗，品味，鑒賞，來自 PIE*sap,品嘗，品味，感知，詞源同 savor,insipid. 引申詞義睿智的，博學的。
英文詞源
- sapient
- sapient: [15] Like English taste, Latin sapere combined the notions of ‘appreciating flavour’ and ‘fine discrimination’, and hence meant both ‘taste’ and ‘be wise’. In the former sense it has given English savour and savoury, while the latter has fed through into English in its present participial form as sapient. It is also the source of Spanish saber ‘know’, which via a West African pidgin has given English the slang term savvy ‘understand’ [18], and French savoir ‘know’, as in English savoir-faire [19].
=> savour, savoury - sapient (adj.)
- "wise," late 15c. (early 15c. as a surname), from Old French sapient, from Latin sapientem (nominative sapiens), present participle of sapere "to taste, have taste, be wise," from PIE root *sep- (1) "to taste, perceive" (cognates: Old Saxon an-sebban "to perceive, remark," Old High German antseffen, Old English sefa "mind, understanding, insight").
雙語例句
- 1. It was no just and sapient counsellor, in its last analysis.
- 歸根結底,這良心也不是一個聰明正直的顧問.
來自英漢文學 - 嘉莉妹妹
- 2. If you follow her sapient advice, you will be sure to succeed.
- 假如你遵照她明智的建議，你一定能夠成功。
來自辭典例句