sapience
/sey-pee-uhns/US // ˈseɪ pi əns //
智慧,智慧性,经验,经验主义
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n.名词 noun
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- : great wisdom or sound judgment:He did much to inculcate the image of a good prince, demonstrating his sapience at Oxford and doing justice with rigor and compassion.
- : the capacity to be self-aware:Language existed long before there was writing, emerging most likely at the same time as sapience, abstract thought, and the genus Homo.
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Examples
"They come back when they learn to play ball above the ears," retorted Bean with crisp sapience.
Another is an emblematic representation of the Tower of Sapience, each stone formed of some mental qualification.
His demure sapience was of the most intense order and it arose out of great mental excitement.
Artemas Ward made people laugh the moment they beheld him, by his wooden composure and indescribable sapience of demeanour.
"She's tremendously admired by some people," said Lady Mollie, shaking her head with a quaint air of sapience.
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