- 1精明、判斷力（商業上台灣常說「商業頭腦」）
Acumen is a sharp mind for judging things — seeing what will work, what is a bad deal, and deciding well, often quickly. You meet it most in business acumen and political acumen: a person who reads a room, a market, or a plan and is rarely fooled. It is not the same as being good at school tests, and it is not the same as , which is more about seeing, hearing, or thinking clearly. Acumen is about good judgment in the real world. The word feels educated and a little formal; you see it in newspapers, job ads, and praise. Though actually, people almost always put another word in front. “She has acumen,” said alone, sounds incomplete. Speakers reach for business acumen, political acumen, legal acumen. It is a compliment. It does not mean cruel or cold, even if a sharp judge of deals can sound tough.
組成Borrowed from Latin acūmen, a sharp point. The picture is a mind that comes to a point.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
acumennoun/ˈækjʊmən/
- 1
Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination; acuity of mind.
- "I am going to ask you a question that does not require much legal acumen to answer," said Lord Meersbrook to his attorney, when he called the next day in Lincoln's Inn;...
- Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.[…]But withal there was a perceptible acumen about the man which was puzzling in the extreme.
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biologybotanynatural-sciencesA sharp, tapering point extending from a plant.
- The black star of the corolla, characteristic of the original form, the manyfloweredness of the inflorescence (often connected with [3]—4 whirls), upper leaves in the inflorescence, adpression of the acumina of the calyx, its size, the closely situated anthers, long pistils, the length of the pedicel above and below the articulation and the thickness of the pedicel dominate.
- 11. S. boyacense. Resembles S. Rybinii from which it is distinguished by the greater dissection of the leaves, the longer calyx acumens, smaller anthers and coloured corolla.
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anatomymedicinesciencesA bony, often sharp, protuberance, especially that of the ischium.
- The rostrum is the anterior extension of the carapace between the eyes. It ends in a more or less acute tip, or acumen, and may have a lateral spine on each side or bear a longitudinal keel (carina) on the dorsal surface.
- DIAGNOSIS—Rostrum usually with marginal spines, tubercles, or angles at base of acumen, and rarely with low medina carina.
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