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wunderkind

/voon-der-kind, wuhn-; German voon-duhr-kint/US // ˈvʊn dərˌkɪnd, ˈwʌn-; German ˈvʊn dərˌkɪnt //UK // (ˈwʌndəˌkɪnd, German ˈvʊndərˌkɪnt) //

奇人,奇才,奇迹,聪明人

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural wun·der·kinds, German wun·der·kin·der [voon-duhr-kin-duhr]. /ˈvʊn dərˌkɪn dər/.

    • : a wonder child or child prodigy.
    • : a person who succeeds, especially in business, at a comparatively early age.

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Examples

  • Early on, Straubel, the battery wunderkind, helped come up with a system that could manage the heat generated by a pack of lithium-ion batteries and thus avoid the dangers of explosions and fires.

  • The NHL loves a wunderkind, and they don’t get any better than the Great One or his modern-day equivalent.

  • It’s just that sometimes certain wunderkinds come along and make everyone forget the adage.

  • The classic version of the gene editing wunderkind literally slices a gene to bits just to turn it off.

  • For 2019–20, Völkl has released another engineering wunderkind of a ski in the new, fatter Mantra 102.

  • Mary Matalin once dubbed him a “mega-multimedia Wunderkind!”

  • Feinstein, no slouch himself in the wunderkind department, began his career at the age of 20, working for Ira Gershwin.

  • The novel is narrated by 20-something literary wunderkind Marcus Goldman.

  • For many Latin America watchers, the fall of this entrepreneurial wunderkind was a body blow to Brazil itself.

  • In 1951, wunderkind conductor Leonard Bernstein married the beautiful actress Felicia Montealegre.

  • Isn't he what your countrymen would call a 'Wunderkind,' Mademoiselle?