adept

音標發(fā)音

He is an adept mechanic.
他是個熟練的機械師。
My teacher is adept at designing robots.
我的老師對設計機器人是個內行。
Our primary mission is to lead and guide our customers, but we risked letting that role slip away as our customers became more adept with the tools and technologies than we were.
我們的主要任務是帶領、指導我們的客戶，但我們卻要冒這個角色可能失敗的冒險，因為我們的客戶已經變得比我們對那些工具和技術更熟練。

"You've got some people involved who have a grandiose plot for some fanatical reason to put a bomb in the center of New York, but they're not very adept at explosives or bomb-making.
So the sense that one actually is pretty adept in knowing is one that tends to predominate in the university.
因此在大學中，認為自己了解很多,這種心態(tài)頗為流行。
普林斯頓公開課 - 人性課程節(jié)選
You don't get the prayer at all. You just get some kind of organized cant. Jesus was a supreme adept, by God, on a terribly important mission.
根本不懂禱告文，你只是得了一些,偽善之言，耶穌是萬能的，踐行著上帝賦予的至關重要的使命。
耶魯公開課 - 1945年后的美國小說課程節(jié)選

Society does much better when pinheads are made by folks actually adept at making pinheads.
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