nous

英 [naʊs]

美 [naʊs]

n.  智力; 理性; 常识

医学

BNC.33900 / COCA.24853

牛津词典

noun

• 智力；理性；常识
  intelligence and the ability to think and act in a practical way

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 智力;常识;理性
  Nousis intelligence or common sense.
  1. Few ministers have the nous or the instinct required to understand the ramifications...
     没有几个大臣具备理解这些后果所需要的理性或直觉。
  2. He is a man of extraordinary vitality, driving ambition and political nous.
     他是一个精力非凡、志向远大、政治上很有见识的人。

英英释义

noun

• that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings
  1. his mind wandered
  2. I couldn't get his words out of my head
  Synonym:mindheadbrainpsyche
• common sense
  1. she has great social nous

双语例句

• In the first ever international assessment of financial nous among the young, China's most populous city leads the field "by a wide margin" compared with teenagers in the US, France, Italy, Australia and elsewhere.
  在迄今首个针对青少年金融常识的国际评估中，与美国、法国、意大利、澳大利亚和其他国家的青少年相比，中国人口最多的城市&上海处于遥遥领先的位置。
• But without new obligations, some doubt the most flawed retail banks will have the nous to reform.
  但有些人怀疑，在缺乏新约束的情况下，多数存在缺陷的零售银行不会拥有改革的意愿。
• She had the business nous to buy property just before prices went up.
  她具备做生意的常识，在价格上涨之前买进房地产。
• Mourinho's side will not get highly praised for style, but their players have confidence in their technical nous, and it was their economical but unspectacular play that earned them this triumph.
  穆里尼奥的球队不会因风格而受到高度赞扬，但他们的球员对他们的技术理智都充满信心，而正是他们的简单却不引人注意的战术替他们赢得了这场胜利。
• An attempt has been made in this disquisition to explore the cause of the construction and study of a new knowledge view in the modern knowledge society with a viewpoint that the traditional nous dimensionality, bloor's social dimensionality and rouse's practical dimensionality might be integrated together.
  本文对现代知识社会建构新的知识观的研究进路进行了尝试性探索，认为可以把传统的理性维度和布鲁尔的社会维度、劳斯的实践维度结合在一起。
• Time period of Thales, who invented the idea of Nous.
  哲学之父泰勒斯时期，他发明了努斯（理智、精神、心灵）的观念。
• As the core conception of Italian Renaissance Art theories, disegno put emphasis on nous spirit and is more wider than the conception of drawing in common use.
  “迪塞诺”是意大利文艺复兴时期艺术理论中的一个核心概念，它强调绘画的理性精神，比现在通用的素描的概念更为宽泛一些。
• His "nous" isn t pure spiritual origin against substance, while it is a complex of "power"," soul" and "reason".
  阿氏的“奴斯”并不是与物质相对立的纯精神性本原，而是“力”和“灵魂”及“理智”等多重含义的复合体。
• Born in Hong Kong in 1947, Dr Chan initially studied home economics at college; few then would have predicted that commitment and political nous would propel her into the top job in international public health.
  陈冯富珍1947年出生于香港，大学最初念家政学那时谁也料不到，凭着敬业和政治悟性，她会登上国际公共卫生领域的头把交椅。
• Divorce, inheritance and business nous has helped a growing number of women to become millionaires, who have increased at five times the rate of wealthy men.
  离婚、遗产继承和商业头脑使得越来越多的女性成为百万富翁，其增长速度为有钱男性的五倍。