sapient

英 ['se?p??nt]美['sep??nt]

近義詞judicious

GRE暢通詞匯

副詞:?sapiently;名詞:?sapience;

sapient 睿智的，博學(xué)的

來自拉丁語 sapere,品嘗，品味，鑒賞，來自 PIE*sap,品嘗，品味，感知，詞源同 savor,insipid. 引申詞義睿智的，博學(xué)的。

sapient: sapient: [15] Like English taste, Latin sapere combined the notions of ‘a(chǎn)ppreciating flavour’ and ‘fine discrimination’, and hence meant both ‘taste’ and ‘be wise’. In the former sense it has given English savour and savoury, while the latter has fed through into English in its present participial form as sapient. It is also the source of Spanish saber ‘know’, which via a West African pidgin has given English the slang term savvy ‘understand’ [18], and French savoir ‘know’, as in English savoir-faire [19].
=> savour, savoury
sapient (adj.): "wise," late 15c. (early 15c. as a surname), from Old French sapient, from Latin sapientem (nominative sapiens), present participle of sapere "to taste, have taste, be wise," from PIE root *sep- (1) "to taste, perceive" (cognates: Old Saxon an-sebban "to perceive, remark," Old High German antseffen, Old English sefa "mind, understanding, insight").

1. It was no just and sapient counsellor, in its last analysis.: 歸根結(jié)底,這良心也不是一個聰明正直的顧問.

2. If you follow her sapient advice, you will be sure to succeed.: 假如你遵照她明智的建議，你一定能夠成功。