sophistication
sophistication 英 [səˌfɪstɪˈkeɪʃn] 美 [səˌfɪstɪˈkeɪʃn]
n. 老于世故；高水平
名词复数:sophistications
- Sophistication is the quality that belongs to a person who appears wise and glamorous. Sipping tea and appreciating opera are both stereotypical signs of sophistication.
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- n. 老于世故；高水平
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1. He felt people were contemptuous of his lack of sophistication.
他觉得人们看不起他不懂人情世故。
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2. Despite her old clothes, there was an air of sophistication about her.
尽管她衣服很旧，但神态老练世故。
- sophistication (n.) early 15c., "use of sophistry; fallacious argument intended to mislead; adulteration; an adulterated or adulterating substance," from Medieval Latin sophisticationem (nominative sophisticatio), noun of action from past participle stem of sophisticare "adulterate, cheat quibble," from Latin sophisticus "of sophists," from Greek sophistikos "of or pertaining to a sophist," from sophistes "a wise man, master, teacher" (see sophist). Meaning "wordly wisdom, refinement, discrimination" is attested from 1850.
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