- 1達人、行家（美式口語：某一個領域很懂的人，比「專家」輕鬆）
A maven is someone who knows a great deal about one subject — food, , fashion, wine — and is happy to tell you so. It is warmer and more informal than expert, and a little less official than specialist. In American English it can sound almost fond: a language maven, a style maven. It is not the usual word in British school English; students will meet it more in US magazines and ads. It came into English from , from a Hebrew word meaning “a person who understands”. Though actually, many English speakers first met it in the 1960s from a US advertisement for herring, which used a character called a “maven” — so a rather old, serious word arrived in popular English wearing a joke. Calling someone a maven is usually a compliment. Said with a sharp smile, it can lean toward “know-it-all”, but the main use is respectful.
組成From Yiddish meyvn, from Hebrew mevin, “one who understands”, from hevin, “to understand”. Popular in US English after a 1964 herring advertisement.
原始詞典資料2 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。
mavennoun/ˈmeɪvn̩/
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An expert in a given field; also, a person who is interested in and knowledgeable about a particular activity or thing; an aficionado.
- Connectors know people—lots of people. Mavens know about things. They know, or find out first, what is going on. Connectors, says [Malcolm] Gladwell, need mavens to tell them what to buzz about.
- Besides an executive sponsor, you need to find a technology maven, someone within the company who understands the new technology. A maven, as defined in Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point, is a person who has both information and the social skills to pass it along. The challenge in a situation such as this one is that the maven might be outside of IT.
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