intellectual
英 [,ɪntə'lektʃʊəl; -tjʊəl]
美 [,ɪntə'lɛktʃuəl]
- adj.知的な;賢い;分別のある
- n. インテリ; 理性で動く人
語源
英語の語源
- intellectual (adj.)
- late 14c., "grasped by the understanding" (rather than by the senses), from Old French intellectuel and directly from Latin intellectualis "relating to the understanding," from intellectus "discernment, understanding," from past participle stem of intelligere "to understand, discern" (see intelligence). Intellectual property attested from 1845. Other adjective formations included intellective (late 15c.), intellectile (1670s).
- intellectual (n.)
- 1590s, "mind, intellect," from intellectual (adj.); sense of "an intellectual person" is from 1650s. Related: Intellectuals.
例文
- 1. They had a snobbish dislike for their intellectual and social inferiors.
- 彼らは非常に勢いが良く、知能や社会的地位が自分に及ばない人を嫌っている。
- 2.Sontag has always been that rarity,a glamorous intellectual .
- サンタグは、美貌と知恵を兼ね備えた人の中で常に竜鳳だった。/
- 3.Without continued learning,graduates will lose their intellectual vitality.
- 勉強を続けなければ、卒業生は思想的活力を失うことになる。
- 4. Intellectual life in France was smothered by the occupation.
- 占領中にフランスの思想界は抑圧された。
- 5.This argument is untenable from an intellectual ,moral and practical standpoint.
- この論点は知性、道徳、現実の観点から見ると、成り立たない。/
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