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小词详解 | flair
The name PYE, the brand enthuses, “combines the Chinese character for flair with its homonym, the mathematical constant π.”
这个品牌热情洋溢地介绍说,“‘派’字取自中文里‘气派’的派,又与数学常数π同音。
——《经济学人》Phil Donahue invented the participatory approach to TV talk, but Winfrey brought a woman-to-woman empathy and a flair for self-revelation that he couldn’t match.
菲尔·唐纳修发明了有观众参与的电视脱口秀节目,但温弗瑞把女人间感同身受的同情心带进节目,加上她善于自我表白,这是唐纳修比不上的。
——《时代周刊》
[名词] 一种做好某事的特殊或本能的天赋或能力
玛丽具有语言天赋。这就是为什么她的外语总是出类拔萃。
Mary has a flair for languages. That's why she has always excelled in foreign languages.
他太特立独行,永远不可能担任要职。我们需要一位有她这样政治眼光的人。
He is too much of a maverick ever to hold high office. We need someone with her political flair.
她衣着甚有品味。没人料到她胃口极大。
She dressed with real flair. Nobody expected her to have a voracious appetite.
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
什么是成功?我认为它混合着既拥有对你所做之事的天赋,也知道仅有天赋是不够的,你必须努力工作并有一定的目标感。
knack: an acquired or natural skill at performing a task aptitude: a natural ability to do something talent: natural aptitude or skill