Ingenuity

(noun.) the property of being ingenious; 'a plot of great ingenuity'; 'the cleverness of its design'.

编辑:罗赞娜

• At immense personal sacrifice I followed the dictates of my own ingenuity, my own humanity, my own caution, and took her identity instead. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Beppo did not despair, and he conducted his search with considerable ingenuity and perseverance. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The jealousy of the artist to maintain that reputation, which his ingenuity has justly acquired, has urged him to unnecessary pains on this subject. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• It is more laborious to accumulate facts than to reason concerning them; but one good experiment is of more value than the ingenuity of a brain like Newton's. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• It is wonderful how art and ingenuity united about thirty years ago to produce attractive _wall papers_. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• No ingenuity could make such a picture beautiful--to one's actual vision. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• And yet most of us accept as a matter of course the stream which gushes from our faucet, or give no thought to the ingenuity which devised a means of forcing water upward through pipes. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• We use the crab-apple for preserving even now, although man’s ingenuity has succeeded in inducing nature to give us many better tasting kinds. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• But this does not reflect upon or diminish the ingenuity required for its invention. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• In this business Mr. Nathaniel Wheeler was associated with Mr. Wilson, and the well-known Wheeler & Wilson machines are the result of their enterprise and ingenuity. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The table is then pushed under a huge grinding machine and the slate surface is made plane, as nearly perfect as human ingenuity can make it. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• At other times he repeated my favourite poems, or drew me out into arguments, which he supported with great ingenuity. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Ingenuity has been shown also in the invention of talking-machines, like Faber's, based on the reed organ pipe. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• But it is not easy to find any accurate measure either of hardship or ingenuity. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The ingenuity and utility of this system are indisputable. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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