genius
单词辨析：
指人在某一方面所具有的可发展和培养的突出天赋，语气弱于 genius。
The father found that his son had a musical talent.
父亲发现儿子有音乐天赋。
Do you have a talent for painting?
你有绘画天分吗?
He is a writer of exceptional literary talent.
他是位文采出众的作家。
指天生的才能，尤指在学习方面的聪颖资质，能迅速掌握某种技能、技巧等，通常后接介词 for。
He has a natural aptitude for writing.
他有写作的天赋。
Edison had a remarkable aptitude for inventing new things.
爱迪生具有发明创造的非凡才能。
The boy skipped the third grade because of his great aptitude in mathematics.
那个小男孩因在数学方面极具天赋而从二年级跳到了四年级。
As a child, he showed an aptitude for the piano.
在孩提时代，他便显露出弹奏钢琴的天赋。
指某种特殊的才能、能力。
George has a faculty for inspiring confidence in people.
乔治具有激发他人信心的能力。
Studying has really sharpened her critical faculties.
学习的确增强了她的判断能力。
语气最强，可指天赋极高者，也可指天赋的特殊才能与智力，强调高智商，含具有独特的创造力之意。
Einstein was a great scientific genius.
爱因斯坦是个伟大的科学天才。
He was a genius in both science and art.
他在科学和艺术两方面都是天才。
He has some share of his father's genius.
他有几分父亲传给他的天赋。
She has a genius for linguistics.
她具有学习语言学的天赋。
指人天生具有的能力或品质，但不一定具有创造力；也可泛指某人在某一方面突出的个人才能。
I've always had a gift for learning languages.
我一向有学习语言的天分。
He seemed to have a gift for pastiche.
他似乎有模仿他人作品的天赋。
指人天生的或后天学来的某种技能或本领。
a knack for remembering faces
记人的本领
He has a knack for making money.
他天生有赚钱的本领。
Till has a knack of saying funny things.
蒂尔有说俏皮话的本事。
She's got the knack of getting people to listen.
她有让人倾听的本领。
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We admired him as a mathematical genius.
我们称赞他是数学天才。
Often a genius is recognized only after he is dead and gone.
天才往往在离开人世之后才得到认可。
The work of an architect of genius always arrests the attention no matter how little remains
天才建筑师的作品无论残留多少都能最大限度地吸引眼球。
He hated pomposity and disliked being called a genius.
他憎恶自负的作派，而且不喜欢被称为天才。
He was a genius and because of it you could accept lapses of taste
由于他是天才，所以品位上偶有差池大家也不会介意。
He last night denounced the British 'genius for running ourselves down'.
昨晚，他谴责了英国那位“抨击我们自己人的天才”。