英语词汇intelligence怎么读，是什么意思，单词翻译、读音、固定搭配用法和短语词组及例句-英汉双解词典

intelligence

ɪntelɪdʒəns  ɪnˈtɛlədʒəns 

1 N-UNCOUNT 聪颖;智慧;灵性 Intelligence is the quality of being intelligent or clever. 聪颖;智慧;灵性

She's a woman of exceptional intelligence.

她是个有着非凡智慧的女子。

SYN intellect, understanding, brains [informal] , mind

2 N-UNCOUNT 智力;智能 Intelligence is the ability to think, reason, and understand instead of doing things automatically or by instinct. 智力;智能

Nerve cells, after all, do not have intelligence of their own.

毕竟,神经细胞自身并没有智力。

3 N-UNCOUNT [oft NOUN n] 情报;谍报 Intelligence is information that is gathered by the government or the army about their country's enemies and their activities. 情报;谍报

She first moved into the intelligence services 22 years ago.

22年前她初次进入情报部门。
The purpose of intelligence is to provide information on how the enemy can be beaten.

谍报的目的是提供如何打败敌人的信息。
Why was military intelligence so lacking?

为什么军事情报如此匮乏？

SYN espionage, spying, surveillance, information gathering

Quotations

Intelligence is characterised by a natural incomprehension of life Henri Bergson L'Évolution Créatrice

Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity Albert Camus The Rebel

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function F. Scott Fitzgerald The Crack-Up

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are George Santayana The Life of Reason: Reason in Common Sense

Intelligence ... is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas Susan Sontag Notes on Camp

Word Partnership

Use intelligence with:

human intelligence 2

intelligence agent, intelligence expert, military intelligence 3

ADJ.

secret intelligence 3

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