intelligence
英 [ɪn'telɪdʒ(ə)ns]
美 [ɪn'tɛlɪdʒəns]
- n. インテリジェンス; インテリジェンス?ワーク; インテリジェンス機関; 理解力
語源
英語の語源
- intelligence (n.)
- late 14c., "faculty of understanding," from Old French intelligence (12c.), from Latin intelligentia, intellegentia "understanding, power of discerning; art, skill, taste," from intelligentem (nominative intelligens) "discerning," present participle of intelligere "to understand, comprehend," from inter- "between" (see inter-) + legere "choose, pick out, read" (see lecture (n.)).
Meaning superior understanding, sagacity" is from early 15c. Sense of "information, news" first recorded mid-15c., especially "secret information from spies" (1580s). Intelligence quotient first recorded 1921 (see I.Q.).
例文
- 1. Too bad he used his intelligence for criminal purposes.
- 彼は聡明さを犯罪に使ってしまった。もったいない。
- 2.The intelligence service conceived a grand design to assassinate the War Minister.
- 情報機関は陸軍部長暗殺の重大な計画を企画した。
- 3.The UN inspectors work hand in glove with the Western intelligence agencies.
- 国連オブザーバーと西側情報機関の間で密接に協力している。
- 4.Of course，literacy isn 't the same thing as intelligence .
- もちろん、識字と知能は別です。
- 5.It was the first commercially available machine to employ artificial intelligence .
- 商品として販売された人工知能技術を採用した最初の機器です。