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whiz kid

奇才,神童,小鬼,小白脸

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Informal.

    • : a youthful and exceptionally intelligent, successful, or influential person in a given field: the whiz kid of network programming.

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Examples

  • The kid from next door drops by and Marvin talks to him about the stunts in his latest film, Death Hunt.

  • He stayed up all night, looking at the streets he had biked around as a kid with a whole new sensibility.

  • After years at the head of a parochial school classroom, he could no longer distinguish one blond Irish Catholic kid from another.

  • “I was watching ‘Daniel The Tiger’ with my kid and I heard two shots like ‘boom-boom,’” he said.

  • “I walk my kid to school, passed that cop car everyday,” he said.

  • "I'll look in the bar," I volunteered, remembering the kid had left with more of a roll than Meadows had now.

  • We lit our pipes and strolled over in silence to the men's quarters, and it was his odd Canadian expression "Gee whiz!"

  • Zoomed over the German lines in the war, stoking an airplane, although at that time he was only a kid.

  • And dragged Joe into it, a good kid who had made only one really bad mistake in his life—the mistake of asking her to marry him.

  • Again it was empty except for the operator, a tow-headed kid with a Racing Form tucked in a side pocket.