陳國詩的英文分享平台

關鍵字彙：

connoisseur/ conversant/ dilettante/ erudite/ ken/ omniscient/ pedantic/ recondite/ reservoir/ rudimentary

1. 「基礎的」、「入門的」可用rudimentary，「深奧難懂的」可用recondite（正式），「儲存資料或知識的地方」叫reservoir：

•I have only the most rudimentary knowledge of chemistry.

•The boy has acquired a rudimentary knowledge of grammar.

•He read many recondite books in order to obtain the material for his scholarly thesis.

•To a good number of literature students, many medieval English classics such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight may have become a recondite subject.

•Though just a small volume, this handbook is a reservoir of literary terms.

•The mind of the spokesman is a great reservoir of facts and figures.

2. 個人的「知識範圍」或「所學領域」可用ken，「很有學術份量的」、「博學的」叫erudite（正式），「精通的」可用conversant，「萬事通的」、「什麼都懂的」叫omniscient，「死讀書的」、「迂腐的」叫pedantic：

•I cannot answer your question since this matter is beyond my ken.

•What happens after death is outside/ not within our ken.

•He has written many erudite works on the history of the Roman Empire.

•His erudite writing was difficult to read because of the many allusions that were unfamiliar to most readers.

•I can't claim to be very conversant with any of the sciences because I've never studied them.

•Mr. Smith is thoroughly conversant with modern painting.

•I don't pretend to be omniscient, but I am positive about this item.

•What he says is pedantic and reveals an unfamiliarity with the realities of life.

3. 「鑑賞家」叫connoisseur，「半瓶醋者」叫dilettante：

•My aunt is a connoisseur of old furniture.

•Mr. Smith is a self-claimed connoisseur of fine wines.

•Mr. Morris is so complacent with being merely a dilettante.