A polymath is someone who has extensive knowledge or extensive expertise in a variety of topics.

polymath 是指在各种主题上有广泛知识或专业知识人。

Notable among these devices was the Step Reckoner, built by German polymath Gottfried Leibniz in 1694.

在这些机器中，莱布尼茨乘法器格外着名 它由德国家戈特弗里德·莱布尼茨于1694年建造。

But while she'd never again go as far away as Crimea, the polymath nurse wasn't done yet.

虽然她再也没有去过克里米亚那么远地方，但这位护士还没有结束她事业。

Douglas Hofstadter, a polyglot and polymath writer, has argued that something profound will vanish when people talk through machines.

精通多种语言且通晓多门作家侯世达认为，当人们通过机器进行交谈时，一些深刻东西会消失。

Perhaps Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci springs to mind.

也许文艺复兴时期者列奥纳多达芬奇会浮现在脑海中。

Like the rest of his kind, Scooty is a colour-changing, shape-shifting, super-smart, poly-limbed, polymath.

和他其他同类一样，史酷蒂是一个会变色、会变形、超、多肢、人。

It was also a reminder that, even in an age of polymaths, the breadth of the Tuscan master's interests was exceptional.

这也提醒人们，即使在一个多才时代，这位意大利托斯卡纳区大师兴趣之广也超乎常人。

The polymath, himself a student of Plato, spent two years there, much of it ensconced in the study of marine biology.

多才，他自己是柏拉图生， 在那里度过了两年， 其中大部分时间都在研究海洋生物。

To a nation of polymaths and jacks-of-all-trades, as Goncharov views the Russians, English professionals and artisans may seem limited in their narrow specialization.

在冈察洛夫看来，对于一个多才、万事通俄罗斯人来说，英国专业人士和工匠在他们狭窄专业领域似乎受到了限制。

Born into privilege in the early 19th Century, Florence Nightingale was a polymath genius, she spoke multiple languages and pioneered concepts of statistical analysis that are still used today.

弗洛伦丝·南丁格尔出生于 19 世纪初特权家庭，她是一位多才天才，会说多种语言，并开创了至今仍在使用统计分析概念。

Good biographies of some of the greatest mathematical minds are rare: because they were polymaths, biographers who can interpret their manifold achievements for the ordinary mortal are themselves thin on the ground.

因为这些数家多才，能把他们众多成就解释给普通人看传记作家本身就寥寥无几。

And it's a book called Magnificent Rebels, and it is a book by Andrea Wulf, who's a writer who wrote a very much celebrated biography of the explorer, polymath, whatever, Alexander von Humboldt.

这是一本名为 Magnificent Rebels，书，作者是安德里亚·沃尔夫 (Andrea Wulf)，他是一位作家，写了一部非常著名探险家传记，多才，随便什么，亚历山大·冯·洪堡。

But everybody was stuck. A brilliant English physicist and polymath, Thomas Young, correctly worked out that a group of hieroglyphs repeated several times on the Rosetta Stone wrote the sounds of a royal name-that of Ptolemy.

但没人取得任何进展。直到一位颖英国者托马斯杨发现，一组在石碑上反复出现象形文字代表了一个王室姓氏发音—托勒密。

Vilfredo Pareto was an Italian polymath, and he actually started off as a civil engineer, becoming a fairly renowned liberal economist, you know, fierce critic of regulation, pro-free markets, you know, sort of guy.

维尔弗雷多·帕累托（Vilfredo Pareto）是一位意大利者，他实际上是从一名土木工程师开始，后来成为一位相当著名自由主义经济家，你知道，对监管、支持自由市场激烈批评，你知道，某种人。

A refreshing exception to such prescriptivism was the " Rudiments of English Grammar" by the scientist and polymath Joseph Priestley, which was unusual in expressing the view that grammar is defined by common usage and not prescribed by self-styled grammarians.

这种规定主义一个令人耳目一新例外是家兼家约瑟夫·普里斯特利 (Joseph Priestley) “英语语法基础”，它在表达语法是由普通用法定义观点而不是由自封语法家规定观点时不同寻常。