nous

英 [naʊs]

美 [naʊs]

n.  智力; 理性; 常识

医学

BNC.33900 / COCA.24853

牛津词典

noun

• 智力；理性；常识
  intelligence and the ability to think and act in a practical way

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 智力;常识;理性
  Nousis intelligence or common sense.
  1. Few ministers have the nous or the instinct required to understand the ramifications...
     没有几个大臣具备理解这些后果所需要的理性或直觉。
  2. He is a man of extraordinary vitality, driving ambition and political nous.
     他是一个精力非凡、志向远大、政治上很有见识的人。

英英释义

noun

• that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings
  1. his mind wandered
  2. I couldn't get his words out of my head
  Synonym:mindheadbrainpsyche
• common sense
  1. she has great social nous

双语例句

• Born in Hong Kong in 1947, Dr Chan initially studied home economics at college; few then would have predicted that commitment and political nous would propel her into the top job in international public health.
  陈冯富珍1947年出生于香港，大学最初念家政学那时谁也料不到，凭着敬业和政治悟性，她会登上国际公共卫生领域的头把交椅。
• Without even asking why they were a year late ( because Liz morcom MW had been ill and was moving house), I suggested they held the lunch Chez nous rather than in a restaurant as I thought it would be more relaxed.
  在没有问他们时间为何是一年后（因为葡萄酒大师莉斯莫科姆（lizmorcom）生病并搬家），我建议他们把午餐地点选在家中，而非餐厅，因为我认为那样会更轻松。
• How could the man with the nous to stop Hillary Clinton ever have let this happen?
  此人既然具备击败希拉里克林顿（hillaryclinton）的机智，怎么会让这种情况发生呢？
• She has great social nous.
  他有了不起的社会常识。
• He has a certain amount of social nous.
  他颇有些社交常识。
• In the general sense it means that nous or spirit ( the more profound idea of nous in modern thought) is the cause of the world.
  广义来说，这话意思是，心灵或精神（精神意指心灵之较深刻的意义）是世界的原因。
• I am very glad to have the opportunity of meeting you. she has great social nous.
  非常高兴有机会认识您。他有了不起的社会常识。
• She had the business nous to buy property just before prices went up.
  她具备做生意的常识，在价格上涨之前买进房地产。
• An attempt has been made in this disquisition to explore the cause of the construction and study of a new knowledge view in the modern knowledge society with a viewpoint that the traditional nous dimensionality, bloor's social dimensionality and rouse's practical dimensionality might be integrated together.
  本文对现代知识社会建构新的知识观的研究进路进行了尝试性探索，认为可以把传统的理性维度和布鲁尔的社会维度、劳斯的实践维度结合在一起。
• But without new obligations, some doubt the most flawed retail banks will have the nous to reform.
  但有些人怀疑，在缺乏新约束的情况下，多数存在缺陷的零售银行不会拥有改革的意愿。