boffin

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I'm no boffin, but I can spot a flaw in these tests.
我不是一個研究員，但是我能發(fā)現(xiàn)這些試驗里的紕漏。
He saw himself as an “enlightened rationalist”, and looked the part, with his oiled hair and boffin’s glasses and strict attention to time.
他自認(rèn)“有見識的唯理論者”——油發(fā)眼鏡，軍事研究員派頭，恪守時間，看起來卻有幾分。
A boffin who collects data on butterflies, say, might want to upload it so that others with the same fascination can add their own information.
比如，一個擁有蝴蝶數(shù)據(jù)信息的研究員也愿意和有同樣愛好的人共同分享，并且希望別人在不斷添加新的數(shù)據(jù)資料進(jìn)來。

Iraq's top nuclear boffin is also rumoured to be in coalition custody.
ECONOMIST: The conflict is over. Now for the casus belli
Keiser is your typical Bernstein boffin: smart, polite and thorough.
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a scientist who is considered to know a lot about science and not to be interested in other things