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

• This will require conviction as well as nous.
  这将需要信念与机敏两者兼备。
• But once it joined the risk-management game, Goldman steadily accumulated market nous.
  但是一旦高盛加入风险管理这项游戏，它就稳定地积累了市场知识。
• But other countries, with less financial nous and more debt, face red.
  而其它那些金融常识不足，债务绰绰有余的国家，就得面对红灯。
• 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。
• I am very glad to have the opportunity of meeting you. she has great social nous.
  非常高兴有机会认识您。他有了不起的社会常识。
• 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。
• Without even asking why they were a year late ( because Liz morcom MW had been ill and was moving house), I suggested they held the lunch Chez nous rather than in a restaurant as I thought it would be more relaxed.
  在没有问他们时间为何是一年后（因为葡萄酒大师莉斯莫科姆（lizmorcom）生病并搬家），我建议他们把午餐地点选在家中，而非餐厅，因为我认为那样会更轻松。
• 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。
• 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。
• The same managerial nous is claimed by a remarkably similar Republican candidate in the Senate race.
  在参议院竞选中，一个极为相似的共和党候选人也提出了同样的管理理念。