英語詞匯
五個表示“天賦”、 “才能”的名詞
嘉中
talent、genius、gift、faculty、aptitude 這組詞都可表示、“天賦” “才能”“天
資”、“天分”等意思。
talent 一般用詞，指某一方面的天賦和才能。
例句：
She has a remarkable talent for staging and directing plays.
她在組織演出和導演戲劇方面有非凡天賦。
My sister has a great talent for painting when she was a middle school.
我姊姊在中學時有傑出繪畫天賦。
Something should be done to prevent our best talents from being drained abroad.
應該采取措施防止最優秀的人才外流。
If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate
abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
如果你很有天賦，勤勉會使其更加完善；如果你能力一般，勤勉會補足其缺陷。
genius 語氣較強，指非凡的才能。
例句:
Picasso’s artistic genius and achievement assured him of a dominant place in the
history of modern art.
畢加索的藝術天才和成保證瞭他在現代藝術史上的顯著地位。
You and your parents can stop worrying — Edison, Darwin and lots more were far
from being geniuses in their teems.
你和你的父母不用擔心,愛迪生,達爾文,會有許多其他名人在少年時代都遠非什麼天才。
A real genius possesses talents in many aspects, but they are brought into play only
by chance and in a single field.
真正的天才具有多方面的才能，隻是處於偶然而僅在單一的領域中得到施展。
Dalton, the chemist, repudiated the notion of his being "a genius", attributing
everything which he had accomplished to simple industry and accumulation.
化學傢道爾頓否定瞭他是 “天才” 的說法，並認為他所完成的一切都是靠勤奮和積累。
gift 指在某一方面的天賦，強調悟性好，但並非一定指創造性和獨創性。
例句：
It seems that this child has a literary gift. He could write poems when he had just
started to write.
這孩子好像具有文學天賦，開筆就能寫詩。
He has a special gift of being able to commit every detail to memory when he sees a
photo.
他有一種特殊的天賦，他看見一張照片後能吧每一細節都記憶下來。
He turned his artistic gift to good account by becoming a sculptor.
他發揮藝術天才, 成瞭雕刻傢。
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without the work.
藝術傢所擁有的不過就是天賦，而天賦離開瞭努力的工作則什麼都不是。
faculty 側重指智能上的天賦或才能。
例句：
He lacks the faculty of coping with the unexpected incidents at the critical moment.
他缺乏在關鍵時刻應對突發事件能力。
He seems to have an extraordinary faculty for negotiation with tough rivals.
他似乎有著優異的才能難打交道的對手進行談判。
He has a great faculty for learning foreign languages.
他有學習外語的天賦.
He extends his nervous system and his thinking and decision-making faculties
through automation.
人類通過自動化擴展瞭人類神經系統的功能思維和決斷的才能。
aptitude 正式用詞，指在某方面有極高的天賦、天分、天資、資質和才能。
例句：
Edison had a remarkable aptitude for inventing new things.
愛迪生具有發明創造的非凡才能。
The son of a schoolmaster, he showed an extraordinary childhood aptitude for
music, studying the piano, violin, organ, singing and harmony etc.
他是一個學校教師的兒子, 童年就表現出非凡的音樂天賦,他學習鋼琴,小提琴,風琴、
唱歌、和聲等。
He seems to have the aptitude to be a detective.
他似乎很有當刑警的天分。
In my experience, if someone can run a network or a server, he has the aptitude to
handle programming.
以我的經驗，如果某人可以操作、運行網絡或服務器，他就具有學習編程的天資。
Paper qualification, though useful, is not a be-all-and-end-all. More weigh is given to
a candidate’s proven abilities and aptitude for the job.
文憑雖然有用，卻不是一切，一紙定不瞭終身，應更看重求職者的真才實學和崗位資
質。
