Genius

(noun.) exceptional creative ability.

(noun.) someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality; 'Mozart was a child genius'; 'he's smart but he's no Einstein'.

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• A genius usually becomes the luminous center of a nation's crisis,--men see better by the light of him. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It will decide my career, for if I have any genius, I shall find it out in Rome, and will do something to prove it. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Besides, is it not a shame, that the genius of Adrian should fade from the earth like a flower in an untrod mountain-path, fruitless? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• How Tom, genius-like, struck out new paths, and, relinquishing the old names of the letters, called U _bell_ and P _bottle_. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• What could we not make of the world if we employed its genius! 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He was a great genius, and a noble character, yet hardly capable of feeling or understanding anything external to his own theology. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Original genius was peculiarly his attribute. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Yet the Greek genius has produced a great sea drama in the 'Odyssey. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• The genius of that porter was something wonderful. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• His genius as an inventor is revealed in many details of the great concentrating plant. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• When he turned his head quickly his hair seemed to shake out light, and some persons thought they saw decided genius in this coruscation. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The pint-pots were great strokes of genius: but the milk-can was a perfect masterpiece. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• The novelis t's tolerance of Davy's enthusiasm soon passed into a clear recognition of his commanding genius. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• I never admired the character of the first Napoleon; but I recognize his great genius. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• As soundless, as unresisting, as if some propitious genius had waited on a sesame-charm, in the vestibule within. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• He had certainly not seen any military geniuses in this war. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• As a witty Frenchman remarked, many geniuses become their own disciples. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• There were hosts of these geniuses, and any reasonable person would have thought it honour enough to meet them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.

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