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

• 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？
• 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。
• Nor have Japanese companies always been good at integrating their foreign acquisitions or at extracting synergies. They have at times lacked the nous to do well in emerging markets, producing goods that are too pricey for poorer consumers.
  在整合海外并购资产或者取得协同效应方面，日本企业也不总是精通此道。它们有时缺乏在新兴市场取胜的常识，对于较贫穷的消费者而言，它们的产品过于昂贵。
• His marriage of political power and commercial nous has made him one of the richest men in a region of very rich men.
  谢赫哈马德集政治权力与商业智慧于一身，使他成为这个充满富翁的地区最富有的人之一。
• Parts of this story are familiar, but the authors bring to it an impressive wealth of analytical detail and political nous.
  故事的某些内容已为人所熟知，但两位作者赋予了故事丰富的分析细节和政治掌故，给人留下了深刻印象。
• 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。
• But other countries, with less financial nous and more debt, face red.
  而其它那些金融常识不足，债务绰绰有余的国家，就得面对红灯。
• This will require conviction as well as nous.
  这将需要信念与机敏两者兼备。
• 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。
• In the first ever international assessment of financial nous among the young, China's most populous city leads the field "by a wide margin" compared with teenagers in the US, France, Italy, Australia and elsewhere.
  在迄今首个针对青少年金融常识的国际评估中，与美国、法国、意大利、澳大利亚和其他国家的青少年相比，中国人口最多的城市&上海处于遥遥领先的位置。