核心畫面

Picture someone meeting something new and — a problem, an explanation, a situation — and you can see the pieces fitting together behind their eyes. They take it in, sort it out, and come back with something that shows they really got it. The word points at that working mind: taking information in and doing something clear with it.

可以想成:一個人碰到一件新的、有點複雜的事——一道題目、一段說明、一個狀況——你看得出來他腦子裡正在把零件一片片對上更多收起可以想成:一個人碰到一件新的、有點複雜的事——一道題目、一段說明、一個狀況——你看得出來他腦子裡正在把零件一片片對上去,然後給出一個「他真的懂了」的回應。這個字指的就是那顆會運轉的腦袋:能把資訊接進去,理清楚,再做出有道理的判斷。四個意思其實是同一個畫面換不同主角:一個人、一句話、一種生物、一台機器。

From the picture

看得出思考痕跡的話語

腦袋在轉別人看不到,看得到的是它做出來的東西。所以同一個字也可以貼在說出來的話上:這句話本身成了那顆腦袋的證據。

well thought-out · adjective · B1

Showing that someone has thought carefully about the subject and really understands it.

有見地的;有水準的

會自己學的機器

最後一步是把這個字借給機器:能自己吸收資料、自己調整、不用人一步步下指令的系統,被形容成「有腦」的。這是借用,不是說機器真的在想事情。

smart technology · adjective · B1

An intelligent machine or system can learn and use information by itself.

智慧型的

Also in this word

smart · adjective · B1

An intelligent person can understand ideas and think clearly, and has a high level of mental ability.

聰明的

capable of thought · adjective · B1

An intelligent living thing is able to think and understand.

有智慧的(生物)

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。

intelligentadj詞源 1/ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/

  • 1

    Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.

    • Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”
  • 2

    Well thought-out, well considered.

    • The engineer had a very intelligent design proposal for the new car.
    • The general devised an intelligent strategy for the southern campaign.
  • 3

    Characterized by thoughtful interaction.

    • My girlfriend and I had an intelligent conversation.
  • 4

    Having at least a similar level of brain power to humankind.

    • The hunt for extraterrestrial intelligent life continues.
  • 5

    computingengineeringmathematicsHaving an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability.

    • an intelligent network or keyboard

intelligentnoun詞源 2

  • 1

    A member of the intelligentsia; an intelligent person.

    • Now, as all intelligents are doomed to pass probationary states, it is highly probable that many intelligents, long antecedent to the foundation of our world, may have tarnished their innocence; or worse, many may have by disobedience fallen.
    • Like many Russian intelligents, the Merežkovskijs, together with Filosofov and the young student Vladimir Zlobin, fled from Russia in 1919.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。