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单词 boy wonder
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Definition of boy wonder in English:

boy wonder

noun
informal
  • An exceptionally talented young man or boy.

    神童

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Strangers approach the boy wonder and want to shake his hand, or simply say in their forthright Manhattan way, ‘Congratulations, Chris!’
    • Before he was twenty-one, Charles Spurgeon was being called ‘the boy wonder of England.’
    • For the American boy wonder, it was vindication - proof that the kid from Baltimore could live up to his billing.
    • He was a boy wonder who shot a 300 at 18 and an ageless wonder who rolled a 300 at 86 and, at 92, rolled in his 71st ABC championship.
    • Even before starting his postgraduate year, he had achieved considerable success, and he was soon being hailed as the boy wonder of Scottish painting.
    • Bloomsbury has no rights to the new film, which is set for release in the autumn, but it expects it to generate a resurgence of interest in the boy wonder.
    • Then on to NASCAR, where at 23, the boy wonder becomes the youngest team owner in major-league sports.
    • But the fast-moving career of the boy wonder is picking up pace again.
    • By 19, he had quit and started his career as a boy wonder in the advertising world.
    • Paolini's back story, as the home-schooled boy wonder who makes it big, had an irresistible cachet.
    • Tickets at £20-a-head sold out within four-hours for his Barbican gigs, and expectant faces met the Bolton boy wonder as he bounded on stage last night.
    • Obsessed with inventing television, the boy wonder vied with Baird and the Russian national Vladimir Zworykin for the title of the medium's true father.
    • But I think I will put a tenner on the boy wonder to score first on Sunday.
    • Perhaps more interested in feeding his mind, the boy wonder was skipping lunch, so I had his roast chicken sandwich with spinach and sun-dried tomatoes.
    • Because I was seven years old and just beginning to be a baseball fan when Feller came to the big leagues as a boy wonder of 17.
    • His company has since grown a lot bigger, but the boy wonder of discount computers has stuck to the same basic model: keep costs down, sell PCs cheap and go straight to the consumer.
    • The boy wonder of the 90s, he is set to chalk up his 600th career appearance if he starts against Liverpool.
    • We must all hope that the sensible occurs and the boy wonder calms down.
    • I think some critics see me as this boy wonder and they love to shoot people down.
    • A sizable cult swiftly formed around the Montreal-bred boy wonder when it was released.

Definition of boy wonder in US English:

boy wonder

nounbɔɪ ˈwəndər
informal
  • An exceptionally talented young man or boy.

    神童

    Example sentencesExamples
    • His company has since grown a lot bigger, but the boy wonder of discount computers has stuck to the same basic model: keep costs down, sell PCs cheap and go straight to the consumer.
    • I think some critics see me as this boy wonder and they love to shoot people down.
    • Paolini's back story, as the home-schooled boy wonder who makes it big, had an irresistible cachet.
    • Obsessed with inventing television, the boy wonder vied with Baird and the Russian national Vladimir Zworykin for the title of the medium's true father.
    • Tickets at £20-a-head sold out within four-hours for his Barbican gigs, and expectant faces met the Bolton boy wonder as he bounded on stage last night.
    • Then on to NASCAR, where at 23, the boy wonder becomes the youngest team owner in major-league sports.
    • He was a boy wonder who shot a 300 at 18 and an ageless wonder who rolled a 300 at 86 and, at 92, rolled in his 71st ABC championship.
    • Before he was twenty-one, Charles Spurgeon was being called ‘the boy wonder of England.’
    • Because I was seven years old and just beginning to be a baseball fan when Feller came to the big leagues as a boy wonder of 17.
    • The boy wonder of the 90s, he is set to chalk up his 600th career appearance if he starts against Liverpool.
    • Perhaps more interested in feeding his mind, the boy wonder was skipping lunch, so I had his roast chicken sandwich with spinach and sun-dried tomatoes.
    • By 19, he had quit and started his career as a boy wonder in the advertising world.
    • But I think I will put a tenner on the boy wonder to score first on Sunday.
    • A sizable cult swiftly formed around the Montreal-bred boy wonder when it was released.
    • But the fast-moving career of the boy wonder is picking up pace again.
    • For the American boy wonder, it was vindication - proof that the kid from Baltimore could live up to his billing.
    • We must all hope that the sensible occurs and the boy wonder calms down.
    • Even before starting his postgraduate year, he had achieved considerable success, and he was soon being hailed as the boy wonder of Scottish painting.
    • Bloomsbury has no rights to the new film, which is set for release in the autumn, but it expects it to generate a resurgence of interest in the boy wonder.
    • Strangers approach the boy wonder and want to shake his hand, or simply say in their forthright Manhattan way, ‘Congratulations, Chris!’
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