| 单词 | boffin |
| 释义 | Related topics: Occupations, Hard sciencebof·fin /ˈbɒfɪn $ ˈbɑː-/ noun [countable] British English informal 1. BOHa scientist 科学家，科技人员2 INTELLIGENTsomeone who is very clever 很聪明的人 He was always a bit of a boffin, even at school. 他一向很聪明，甚至在上学的时候就是如此。 computer boffins 电脑奇才Examples from the Corpusboffin• This was contrary to the opinion of the world and society which thought of him as a boffin.• Government boffins have been explaining a new weapon that destroys people but leaves houses intact.• Three wore the white coats of the back-room boffin, the fourth was diminutive, little more than a boy.• A few science boffins were asked for their opinions, but otherwise the article gave very little information.• Perhaps the boffins in the boats at Scapa ought to swallow their compassion and get equally coercive with the whales.• The boffin claims to be able to lower bust-up ratios by analysing responses to statements about their lifestyles.• Their boffins used sophisticated hospital scanners to mould the exact shape of Schuey's head to within one-tenth of a millimetre.• Oldfield was never conferred with boffin status, unlike his contemporary, Mr Ambient himself, Brian Eno.computer boffins• The biorhythms program is simple and easy to use for those who know the subject but are not computer boffins.bof·fin nounChineseSyllable scientist a Corpus |
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