prodigy

noun
🔊/ˈprɒdədʒi/
🔊/ˈprɑːdədʒi/
(plural prodigies)
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  1. a young person whose intelligence or skill is unusually good for their age(年轻的)天才,奇才,精英;神童
    • a child/an infant prodigy天才儿童;神童
    • a musical prodigy音乐奇才
    • Mozart was an infant prodigy, composing music at the age of four.莫扎特是个婴儿神童,四岁时就创作音乐。
    • The 12-year-old prodigy will play America’s reigning chess champion next week.那个12岁的神童将在下周迎战美国国际象棋冠军。
    Topics Personal qualitiesb2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryProdigy is used after these nouns:
    • child
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    Word Originlate 15th cent. (denoting something extraordinary considered to be an omen): from Latin prodigium ‘portent’.