nous

[美]/naʊs/
[英]/naʊs/
词频: 极高

释义

n. [哲]精神;[哲]心灵; [哲]理性; [口]常识
词形变化
复数nouss

短语搭配

use our nous

运用我们的智慧

intellectual nous

智慧

例句

entre nous, the old man's a bit of a case.

别对别人说,这老头有点儿怪。

if he had any nous at all, he'd sell the film rights.

要是他有那么一丁点儿头脑的话,他就会把电影的版权卖掉。

This thesis makes a thorough analysis of Plato's concept of Idea by referring to many important Plato's dialogues, with studying some other concepts, such as nous, noesis, auto, etc.

它作为事物之自身,乃是事物的本质,作为思维存在,乃是与事物之本质相应的思维之概念,而它同时又是事物的理想存在,构成了事物的目的,这样,它在根本上是本体论、逻辑学和目的论三者的统一。

to show nous in decision-making

在决策中展现头脑

to have entrepreneurial nous

具有创业头脑

to possess financial nous

具备财务头脑

原声例句

No thanks to your burglar. He had the nous to play for time.

你的飞贼一点都帮不上忙。他懂得用脑子拖延时间。

来源: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

He called this force mind or intelligence (nous).

他称这个力量为“心灵”或“睿智”。

来源: Sophie's World (Original Version)

Having boasted of its management nous, it now seems that poor management is what did it for a unified GE.

通用电气曾吹嘘自己的管理智慧,但现在看来,正是糟糕的管理成就了统一的通用电气。

来源: The Economist (Summary)

With nous autres it is different.

有了 nous autres, 情况就不同了。

来源: Murder at the golf course

But why the O? This has to do with French. Scribes Notice that the OU sound in French is written OU, you think of vous and nous and doux.

但为什么要加 O?这与法语有关。抄写员注意到了法语中的 OU 音是写的 OU。想想 vous 和 nous 和 doux。

来源: The Evolution of English Vocabulary

The word that we typically render as ''repent'' is metanoiete in the Greek, a term which is based upon two words ''meta, '' ''beyond, '' and ''nous, '' ''mind.''

我们通常表述成“悔改”的这个词,在希腊文中是metanoiete,它由两个词构成“meta”,“超越”和“nous”,“精神”。

来源: Catholicism

Last year it recruited Tony Hoggart, a former executive from Tesco, a British supermarket chain, to bring grocery nous to a business hitherto obsessed with overhead cameras, QR codes and data collection.

去年,该公司聘请了英国连锁超市特易购(Tesco)前高管托尼·霍加特(Tony Hoggart),为这家迄今为止痴迷于高架摄像头、二维码和数据收集的企业带来杂货知识。

来源: Economist Business

" By the way, " he said, turning to Sipiagin, " et ce gaillard-la" (he moved his chin in Paklin's direction). " Qu'enferons nous? He does not appear very dangerous" .

” 他说,转向西皮亚金, “等等 gaillard-la” (他把下巴移向帕克林的方向)。 “顺便说一句,“Qu'enferons nous?他看起来不是很危险” 。

来源: The Virgin Land (Part 2)

But, as luck would have it, there is a tool lying around that has both the money and the nous to do it, and which is currently underemployed and in need of a new mission.

但幸运的是,我们恰好就有这么一个机构,该机构既有钱又有才,只不过现在被大材小用,正等着我们赋予它新使命呢。

来源: The Economist - Comprehensive

Since the law in question considerably magnifies penalties when the misconduct is " wilful" , the omission was potentially disastrous—and could only have been caught by someone with the right combination of legal and linguistic nous.

由于相关法律在不当行为是“故意”时会大大加重处罚,因此这种疏忽可能是灾难性的——而且只能被具有法律和语言常识的正确组合的人抓住。

来源: The Economist Culture

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