關鍵字彙：
adept/ adroit/ competent/ contrive/ deft/ dexterous, dextrous/ expertise/ feat/ finesse/ flair/ forte/ inept/ ingenious/ innate/ knack/ proficiency/ proficient/ subtlety/ versatile/ versed
1. 在較為非正式的用法中，可用knack表示「技巧」或「能力」；個人的「強項」、「特長」、「專長」可用forte，它只能用單數，且前面經常加上所有格：
•Most Chinese girls seem to have the knack of cooking.
•He has a knack of making friends wherever he goes.
•Games are his forte; he plays baseball and football unusually well.
•Singing is her strongest forte.
2. 指「能展現個人技巧、力量或勇氣的事情」用feat：
•It was quite a feat to move that piano by yourself.
•The young man's feats of horsemanship won him fame and fortune.
3. 指處理人際互動或其它事情的「細膩技巧」用finesse（法文），技巧或能力的「細膩」、「微妙」叫subtlety：
•Wilson handled the meeting with great finesse.
•The finesse and adroitness of the surgeon impressed the observers in the operating room.
•A good vocabulary enables us to communicate with greater subtlety and precision than a limited one.
•Although I do not agree with what you have said, I cannot but praise the subtlety of your argument.
4. 「專門技術」或「專業知識」叫expertise：
•His expertise saved the business from failing.
•Special expertise is in great demand in this highly technological society.
5. 「靈巧的」、「熟練的」、「俐落的」可用adroit、deft或dexterous。其中，adroit也可以形容心思的敏捷。另外，「不靈巧的」、「笨拙的」、「無能的」叫inept：
•Her long-time service in the government allowed her to be adroit at dealing with complicated problems.
•This is an adroit answer to the difficult question.
•The magic needs to be worked with the adroit movement of the hands.
•The pianist has extremely deft fingers.
•The audience marveled at the young dancer's deft performance last night.
•She untied the knots with dexterous fingers.
•He is quite inept at baseball.
•The constant turmoil in the office proved that he was an inept administrator.
6. 「天份」可用flair，「天生具有的」可用innate：
•The girl has a flair for writing.
•He shows little flair for this subject.
•The young merchant has a flair for bargains.
•The girl's innate talent for music was soon recognized.
7. 「能勝任的」叫competent：
•Perhaps he is not so brilliant, but he is competent at his job.
•The boss found his secretary very competent.
8. 「多才多藝的」叫versatile：
•Leonardo da Vinci was a very versatile artist who was at home in almost any medium.
9. 「專精的」、「擅長的」可用proficient、adept或versed，「專精」叫proficiency：
•The intelligent student is proficient in almost every subject.
•My mother is adept in painting.
•May is adept at playing the piano.
•The factory needs a man who's well versed in auto mechanics.
•Proficiency in English is hard to come by, but it is not impossible.
10. 把很平常的東西「發揮巧思地設計」成另外的東西，用contrive；指所設計發明的東西「精巧的」或腦筋「靈活的」、「有創意的」，用ingenious：
•She contrived a dress from a piece of old cloth.
•He contrived a useful camp store from a few bricks and a piece of screen.
•The inventor has got an ingenious mind.
•It's an ingenious device.
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