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

• 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。
• The juniors expect to win, but, entre nous, their chances are not too good.
  三年级的学生想赢得比赛，但是你不要跟别人说，他们赢的机会并不大。
• Bureaucrats with little investment nous are in charge.
  在其位的，是那些缺乏投资常识的官僚。
• Time period of Thales, who invented the idea of Nous.
  哲学之父泰勒斯时期，他发明了努斯（理智、精神、心灵）的观念。
• As the core conception of Italian Renaissance Art theories, disegno put emphasis on nous spirit and is more wider than the conception of drawing in common use.
  “迪塞诺”是意大利文艺复兴时期艺术理论中的一个核心概念，它强调绘画的理性精神，比现在通用的素描的概念更为宽泛一些。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He has a certain amount of social nous.
  他颇有些社交常识。
• Whereas publishers have long acknowledged the potential volatility of their flagship products, Big Pharma marketed itself as an exemplar of strategic nous and straight-line growth.
  出版商早已认识到自己的旗舰产品具有很大的潜在波动性，大制药公司却把自己营造为战略智慧和直线增长的典范。