sophistication

英 [səˌfɪstɪ'keɪʃn] 美 [səˌfɪstɪ'keɪʃn]

• n. 老练；精明；复杂；精密；有教养；诡辩；强词夺理

英英释义

Noun:

1. uplifting enlightenment

2. a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

3. being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject;

   "understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication"
   

4. the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment

5. falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies;

   "he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. Despite her scruffy clothes, there was an air of sophistication about her.
   尽管她衣衫褴褛，但神态老练世故。
2. He combined curious qualities of naivete with incisive wit and worldly sophistication.
   他把天真质朴的奇怪品质同锐利的机智和老练的世故结合了起来。
3. The result is a city huge on taste, sophistication and culinary pleasures.
   这座城市对复杂的烹饪和美食有着极其浓厚的兴趣。
4. I have tried often to search behind the sophistication of years for the enchantment I so easily found in those gifts.
   在经历了成年后的复杂生活后，我多次试图弄清楚为什么当年她送给我的礼物一下子就让我陶醉了。
5. Additional sophistication in method of calculation is unnecessary.
   没有必要进一步采取更精密的计算方法。
6. The Red Team, based at Carnegie Mellon University, raised this mission-planning task to a military level of sophistication.
   卡内基美伦大学的红队将这项任务规划的工作提升到军事行动的精密程度。
7. I wonder, in fact, if the effectiveness of protest action and media sophistication are inversely proportional.
   事实上我在想，抗议行为的效果和媒体的诡辩是不是成反比。

经典引文

• The Trombay establishment is the last word in nuclear sophistication.

  出自：Listener

• Instamatics..with built-in light meter and other sophistications.

  出自：Early Music

近反义词

【近义词】

• refinement 精致
• style 文体
• chic 别致的
• urbanity 都市风格
• elegance 高雅
• complexity 复杂
• erudition 博学
• cleverness 聪明
• difficulty 困难
• intricacy 纷乱
• mundanity 尘俗
• mundaneness 俗世
• sophistry 诡辩
• edification 陶冶
• worldliness 俗气
• sophism 诡辩

【反义词】

• naivete 天真