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单词 sophisticated
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Definition of sophisticated in English:

sophisticated

adjective səˈfɪstɪkeɪtɪdsəˈfɪstəˌkeɪdəd
  • 1Having, revealing, or involving a great deal of worldly experience and knowledge of fashion and culture.

    老练的;精通文化(或时尚)的

    a chic, sophisticated woman

    一位时髦、精通世故的女性。

    a young man with sophisticated tastes

    一个趣味不俗的年轻人。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He's the opposite of the sophisticated, cultured, world-weary foreign correspondent.
    • Rich, worldly and sophisticated, he could have been the ideal husband for Gwendolen but feels compelled to crush her independent spirit and mould her into his perfect wife.
    • His friends were Westerners for the most part, and though he was a sophisticated man and an artist with a broad range of interests, he was in many respects a regionalist, in the finest sense of that word.
    • Without doubt, the foods of the world, to be found in Canada's larger cities, had a great hand in creating the modern Canadian - in the main, sophisticated and worldly.
    • He probably learned more of the sophisticated high culture from listening to the public addresses of lawyers and ministers, especially the better sort.
    • In Memphis, he has an experience that makes him realize that he is not as sophisticated or worldly as he thought: he meets a boy by chance on the road, and they come upon a jug of bootleg alcohol.
    • They seem unable to resist the temptation to express contempt and hostility for those less sophisticated and cultured than themselves.
    • Think rumpled imprecision when it comes to fall's best-tressed heads; the look juxtaposes well with the season's more sophisticated fashions.
    • Civilizations ranging from the Canaanite to the Ottoman, have left their mark on an ever-growing, culturally rich and sophisticated city.
    • We often will find the most sophisticated cultures being the most brutal.
    • Famous for both Oktoberfest and a sophisticated cultural scene, Munich considers itself a ‘Metropolis with a Heart.’
    • They hadn't gone to college, and they saw Father Mark as a repository of knowledge and culture and sophisticated humor.
    • Readers of this blog are, by definition, sophisticated and worldly-wise individuals who know full well that major film studios do not read unsolicited screenplays.
    • During the last century, Finland has reinvented itself as a highly sophisticated, socially urbane culture with the highest aspirations for design and for architecture.
    • They remind us of a time when our culture was sophisticated and full of elegance and beauty.
    • Well, Los Angeles has always had a very sophisticated literary culture in relation to films and fiction.
    • The party only exists in Allen's brain, as a memory or perhaps a fantasy, a crowd of cultured, moneyed, sophisticated, liberal-minded New Yorkers.
    • That said, this is a very French affair - sophisticated, culturally eclectic, and exceptionally high-tech.
    • Even though they weren't the most sophisticated culture, or the most refined compared to, say, the Maya, the Aztecs were highly expressive.
    • Mexico possesses an extensive and sophisticated culinary culture, with a great variety of regional dishes.
    Synonyms
    worldly, worldly-wise, experienced, enlightened, cosmopolitan, knowledgeable
    suave, urbane, cultured, cultivated, civilized, polished, smooth, refined, elegant, stylish, media-savvy
    informal cool
    1. 1.1 Appealing to or frequented by people who are sophisticated.
      a sophisticated restaurant

      一家不落俗套的饭馆。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • His philosophy is a simple, yet sophisticated restaurant with no clutter - somewhere to enjoy his food at a reasonable price.
      • The foods available at restaurants range from sophisticated Western cuisine, to various ethnic specialty foods, to both indigenous and foreign fast foods.
      • Conroy's rugs are not just luxurious, sophisticated accessories that bring style and warmth to the home, they're also truly unique.
      • The local choir was joined by the Moy Singers of Ballina and Phil Landers had excelled herself with sophisticated and tasteful floral displays in the church.
      • The low-ad loading and sophisticated playlist were hugely appealing, but it just wasn't a great money-spinner.
      • On Sunday night, we dined at Ballarat's most sophisticated and exotic restaurant featuring a gorilla.
      • Try combining different shapes and colors of tableware; assembled with restraint, an assortment can look beautiful and sophisticated.
      • This cover is sophisticated, with a gracefully limited color palette and simple fonts.
      • I am sure that your honour will readily agree with me that the Nehru-collar suit is an elegant, sophisticated and dignified attire.
      • This was an eveningwear line that was beautiful and sophisticated, a more grown-up version of the ready-to-wear collection.
      • But the local people loved the restaurant for it's sophisticated atmosphere, and elegant service.
      • But most of all, people come here to eat. springing up on every corner are sophisticated restaurants serving exquisite food.
      • Tastes was a multi-cultural restaurant, very sophisticated and yet casual at the same time.
      • The film is a sophisticated and æsthetically beautiful horror film.
      • The flats were regarded as sophisticated, even luxurious, and all for the reasonable rent of between £68 and £130 per year.
      • Today we see it on the menu of some fairly sophisticated restaurants.
      • Lovely, sophisticated dishes like this are a given at Aleutia.
      • With his beautiful and sophisticated music, Diallo is a purveyor of West African heritage, but also makes use of the latest advances in technology to appeal equally to the head, the heart and the feet.
      • And now the combination of fresh local produce and award-winning wine is drawing top chefs to the area's increasingly sophisticated restaurants.
      • Their many restaurants are sophisticated and serve dishes rivalling the best to be found in Europe.
  • 2(of a machine, system, or technique) developed to a high degree of complexity.

    (机器,系统,技术)复杂的,精密的

    highly sophisticated computer systems

    高度精密的计算机系统。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In Edinburgh we had a sophisticated marketing system to work out who the audience was.
    • It's a new departure for politics in this country as political parties adopt the sophisticated marketing techniques of advertising to sell their brands to the widest possible audience.
    • The researchers are developing sophisticated systems to make this possible.
    • How can you know what a sophisticated machine, or computer, is doing with the all the information, including votes, that's fed in?
    • Typically such offerings have included server engines, storage systems and sophisticated management tools to allocate and de-allocate resources in response to varying user demand.
    • At that time, genetic engineering techniques were not sophisticated enough to develop something substantial.
    • They practiced sophisticated techniques of construction that included stone-masonry.
    • Time is not external to us, something we can use more efficiently through sophisticated techniques of time management.
    • There would also be a vital need to control access to computer systems that were being used to develop sophisticated machines.
    • Big Indian vendors are overcoming this barrier through increasingly sophisticated marketing techniques.
    • A future hope is that a more sophisticated classification system of the vocabulary of wine can match the knowledge of its drinkers.
    • Neurosurgeons still use this principle of decreasing the pressure within the skull by practising more sophisticated techniques.
    • Corporations are now using more sophisticated marketing techniques to grab a child's attention and hold it, often for years.
    • The most sophisticated computer system will not lead to better care, unless caregivers are willing to act on the information.
    • The Incas were an advanced people who built fine cities and developed sophisticated farming methods.
    • The Apache Longbow possesses a sophisticated navigation system that obtains a position confidence of less than 14 meters.
    • Indians had to labor hard for their food, and consequently they developed sophisticated systems of collection and cultivation.
    • South Africa, with its developed manufacturing base, sophisticated infrastructure and large work force, is already favoured by the transnationals.
    • Although nonhuman animals can develop highly sophisticated systems of social security, this isn't always the case.
    • They then use sophisticated marketing techniques and software programs to target those voters.
    Synonyms
    advanced, highly developed, innovatory, trailblazing, revolutionary
    modern, ultra-modern, futuristic, avant-garde, state of the art, the latest, new, the newest, up to the minute
    complex, complicated, elaborate, intricate, subtle, delicate
    gimmicky
    1. 2.1 (of a person or their thoughts, reactions, and understanding) aware of and able to interpret complex issues; subtle.
      (人,思想,反应,理解力)深刻的;精通的
      discussion and reflection are necessary for a sophisticated response to a text

      讨论与深思对深刻理解文本来说是必要的。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Citizens are sophisticated, and many understand financial concepts like lifecycle cost analysis, he says.
      • In fact, sociologists and historians have had - for at least a generation - a far more sophisticated understanding of modern Jews.
      • Recent scholarship presents a much more subtle and sophisticated understanding of seventeenth-century mechanism.
      • It must be that advertising works, even on educated and sophisticated people.
      • Senior citizens are among the most sophisticated people on this issue because they pay for drugs out of pocket.
      • They presuppose that students are sophisticated enough to look at a novel as an object in a given time and place, filled with all settings and vagaries of the particular time frame in which the novel occurs.
      • In the U.S., we are more subtle, we are more sophisticated.
      • Any complex, sophisticated thinker is unlikely to fit neatly into a single type, yet the types can still be helpful in mapping the field.
      • A more sophisticated understanding of power would focus on the ability of a state to control or influence its environment in situations that are not necessarily conflictual.
      • She had very limited knowledge of videomaking but a relatively sophisticated sense of identity issues.
      • It requires huge amounts of money, sophisticated leaders and an intricate structure of command.
      • Because of these changes, competition is now firmly based on the firm's ability to meet the needs of cost-conscious, powerful and sophisticated customers in the most effective manner.
      • Von Frank tells the story better than any film could, drawing on his sophisticated understanding of how different kinds of rhetoric can aid axes and muscles in effecting social change.
      • Indians understood the value of land and had a sophisticated and subtle understanding of the exchange of land and material goods.
      • This ran through the responses of all groups, with a sophisticated understanding of the country's problems.
      • Over the years I've come to the hard conclusion that even sophisticated people don't understand small risks.
      • There's definitely a user interface issue, because only the most sophisticated users are going to use anything that's complicated at all.
      • In this sense, it suggested a sophisticated enemy, well aware of how modern wars are fought.
      • But Goloku's teachings also carried a more subtle and sophisticated thought, under the simple morality of the precept.
      • However, a more sophisticated understanding of the biology of slowly replicating M. tuberculosis is necessary to develop such a strategy.

Derivatives

  • sophisticatedly

  • adverb
    • The film uses a satirical approach, not so much to criticise, but more to sophisticatedly ignore socialist realism.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • And is it, unless it's sophisticatedly explained by the other side to counter, is it the kind of issue that could win him the election?
      • And they will simply be wrong, but sophisticatedly so.
      • It may well be that the defence contractor triple-invoiced so sophisticatedly that such a test would have failed to pick it up.
      • Although the language used in the book was sophisticatedly knotty, it was easy to discover what was going on.

Definition of sophisticated in US English:

sophisticated

adjectivesəˈfistəˌkādədsəˈfɪstəˌkeɪdəd
  • 1Having, revealing, or proceeding from a great deal of worldly experience and knowledge of fashion and culture.

    老练的;精通文化(或时尚)的

    a chic, sophisticated woman

    一位时髦、精通世故的女性。

    a young man with sophisticated tastes

    一个趣味不俗的年轻人。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They seem unable to resist the temptation to express contempt and hostility for those less sophisticated and cultured than themselves.
    • Mexico possesses an extensive and sophisticated culinary culture, with a great variety of regional dishes.
    • He's the opposite of the sophisticated, cultured, world-weary foreign correspondent.
    • They hadn't gone to college, and they saw Father Mark as a repository of knowledge and culture and sophisticated humor.
    • Civilizations ranging from the Canaanite to the Ottoman, have left their mark on an ever-growing, culturally rich and sophisticated city.
    • In Memphis, he has an experience that makes him realize that he is not as sophisticated or worldly as he thought: he meets a boy by chance on the road, and they come upon a jug of bootleg alcohol.
    • Famous for both Oktoberfest and a sophisticated cultural scene, Munich considers itself a ‘Metropolis with a Heart.’
    • We often will find the most sophisticated cultures being the most brutal.
    • Without doubt, the foods of the world, to be found in Canada's larger cities, had a great hand in creating the modern Canadian - in the main, sophisticated and worldly.
    • Think rumpled imprecision when it comes to fall's best-tressed heads; the look juxtaposes well with the season's more sophisticated fashions.
    • That said, this is a very French affair - sophisticated, culturally eclectic, and exceptionally high-tech.
    • His friends were Westerners for the most part, and though he was a sophisticated man and an artist with a broad range of interests, he was in many respects a regionalist, in the finest sense of that word.
    • Rich, worldly and sophisticated, he could have been the ideal husband for Gwendolen but feels compelled to crush her independent spirit and mould her into his perfect wife.
    • Readers of this blog are, by definition, sophisticated and worldly-wise individuals who know full well that major film studios do not read unsolicited screenplays.
    • They remind us of a time when our culture was sophisticated and full of elegance and beauty.
    • Even though they weren't the most sophisticated culture, or the most refined compared to, say, the Maya, the Aztecs were highly expressive.
    • He probably learned more of the sophisticated high culture from listening to the public addresses of lawyers and ministers, especially the better sort.
    • The party only exists in Allen's brain, as a memory or perhaps a fantasy, a crowd of cultured, moneyed, sophisticated, liberal-minded New Yorkers.
    • Well, Los Angeles has always had a very sophisticated literary culture in relation to films and fiction.
    • During the last century, Finland has reinvented itself as a highly sophisticated, socially urbane culture with the highest aspirations for design and for architecture.
    Synonyms
    worldly, worldly-wise, experienced, enlightened, cosmopolitan, knowledgeable
    1. 1.1 Appealing to people with worldly knowledge or experience.
      不落俗套的
      a sophisticated restaurant

      一家不落俗套的饭馆。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • This cover is sophisticated, with a gracefully limited color palette and simple fonts.
      • Today we see it on the menu of some fairly sophisticated restaurants.
      • Conroy's rugs are not just luxurious, sophisticated accessories that bring style and warmth to the home, they're also truly unique.
      • With his beautiful and sophisticated music, Diallo is a purveyor of West African heritage, but also makes use of the latest advances in technology to appeal equally to the head, the heart and the feet.
      • I am sure that your honour will readily agree with me that the Nehru-collar suit is an elegant, sophisticated and dignified attire.
      • The flats were regarded as sophisticated, even luxurious, and all for the reasonable rent of between £68 and £130 per year.
      • Try combining different shapes and colors of tableware; assembled with restraint, an assortment can look beautiful and sophisticated.
      • The low-ad loading and sophisticated playlist were hugely appealing, but it just wasn't a great money-spinner.
      • The local choir was joined by the Moy Singers of Ballina and Phil Landers had excelled herself with sophisticated and tasteful floral displays in the church.
      • This was an eveningwear line that was beautiful and sophisticated, a more grown-up version of the ready-to-wear collection.
      • Tastes was a multi-cultural restaurant, very sophisticated and yet casual at the same time.
      • The foods available at restaurants range from sophisticated Western cuisine, to various ethnic specialty foods, to both indigenous and foreign fast foods.
      • The film is a sophisticated and æsthetically beautiful horror film.
      • Their many restaurants are sophisticated and serve dishes rivalling the best to be found in Europe.
      • On Sunday night, we dined at Ballarat's most sophisticated and exotic restaurant featuring a gorilla.
      • But most of all, people come here to eat. springing up on every corner are sophisticated restaurants serving exquisite food.
      • Lovely, sophisticated dishes like this are a given at Aleutia.
      • But the local people loved the restaurant for it's sophisticated atmosphere, and elegant service.
      • And now the combination of fresh local produce and award-winning wine is drawing top chefs to the area's increasingly sophisticated restaurants.
      • His philosophy is a simple, yet sophisticated restaurant with no clutter - somewhere to enjoy his food at a reasonable price.
  • 2(of a machine, system, or technique) developed to a high degree of complexity.

    (机器,系统,技术)复杂的,精密的

    highly sophisticated computer systems

    高度精密的计算机系统。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • South Africa, with its developed manufacturing base, sophisticated infrastructure and large work force, is already favoured by the transnationals.
    • The researchers are developing sophisticated systems to make this possible.
    • A future hope is that a more sophisticated classification system of the vocabulary of wine can match the knowledge of its drinkers.
    • The most sophisticated computer system will not lead to better care, unless caregivers are willing to act on the information.
    • In Edinburgh we had a sophisticated marketing system to work out who the audience was.
    • The Apache Longbow possesses a sophisticated navigation system that obtains a position confidence of less than 14 meters.
    • Big Indian vendors are overcoming this barrier through increasingly sophisticated marketing techniques.
    • Indians had to labor hard for their food, and consequently they developed sophisticated systems of collection and cultivation.
    • They practiced sophisticated techniques of construction that included stone-masonry.
    • Typically such offerings have included server engines, storage systems and sophisticated management tools to allocate and de-allocate resources in response to varying user demand.
    • The Incas were an advanced people who built fine cities and developed sophisticated farming methods.
    • At that time, genetic engineering techniques were not sophisticated enough to develop something substantial.
    • Corporations are now using more sophisticated marketing techniques to grab a child's attention and hold it, often for years.
    • Time is not external to us, something we can use more efficiently through sophisticated techniques of time management.
    • It's a new departure for politics in this country as political parties adopt the sophisticated marketing techniques of advertising to sell their brands to the widest possible audience.
    • Neurosurgeons still use this principle of decreasing the pressure within the skull by practising more sophisticated techniques.
    • There would also be a vital need to control access to computer systems that were being used to develop sophisticated machines.
    • How can you know what a sophisticated machine, or computer, is doing with the all the information, including votes, that's fed in?
    • They then use sophisticated marketing techniques and software programs to target those voters.
    • Although nonhuman animals can develop highly sophisticated systems of social security, this isn't always the case.
    Synonyms
    advanced, highly developed, innovatory, trailblazing, revolutionary
    1. 2.1 (of a person or their thoughts, reactions, and understanding) aware of and able to interpret complex issues; subtle.
      (人,思想,反应,理解力)深刻的;精通的
      discussion and reflection are necessary for a sophisticated response to a text

      讨论与深思对深刻理解文本来说是必要的。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • It must be that advertising works, even on educated and sophisticated people.
      • A more sophisticated understanding of power would focus on the ability of a state to control or influence its environment in situations that are not necessarily conflictual.
      • This ran through the responses of all groups, with a sophisticated understanding of the country's problems.
      • It requires huge amounts of money, sophisticated leaders and an intricate structure of command.
      • But Goloku's teachings also carried a more subtle and sophisticated thought, under the simple morality of the precept.
      • However, a more sophisticated understanding of the biology of slowly replicating M. tuberculosis is necessary to develop such a strategy.
      • Indians understood the value of land and had a sophisticated and subtle understanding of the exchange of land and material goods.
      • They presuppose that students are sophisticated enough to look at a novel as an object in a given time and place, filled with all settings and vagaries of the particular time frame in which the novel occurs.
      • Over the years I've come to the hard conclusion that even sophisticated people don't understand small risks.
      • Because of these changes, competition is now firmly based on the firm's ability to meet the needs of cost-conscious, powerful and sophisticated customers in the most effective manner.
      • She had very limited knowledge of videomaking but a relatively sophisticated sense of identity issues.
      • There's definitely a user interface issue, because only the most sophisticated users are going to use anything that's complicated at all.
      • Senior citizens are among the most sophisticated people on this issue because they pay for drugs out of pocket.
      • Citizens are sophisticated, and many understand financial concepts like lifecycle cost analysis, he says.
      • Von Frank tells the story better than any film could, drawing on his sophisticated understanding of how different kinds of rhetoric can aid axes and muscles in effecting social change.
      • Any complex, sophisticated thinker is unlikely to fit neatly into a single type, yet the types can still be helpful in mapping the field.
      • In fact, sociologists and historians have had - for at least a generation - a far more sophisticated understanding of modern Jews.
      • Recent scholarship presents a much more subtle and sophisticated understanding of seventeenth-century mechanism.
      • In this sense, it suggested a sophisticated enemy, well aware of how modern wars are fought.
      • In the U.S., we are more subtle, we are more sophisticated.
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