Ingenious

(a.) Possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; skillful or promp to invent; having an aptitude to contrive, or to form new combinations; as, an ingenious author, mechanic.

(a.) Proseeding from, pertaining to, or characterized by, genius or ingenuity; of curious design, structure, or mechanism; as, an ingenious model, or machine; an ingenious scheme, contrivance, etc.

(a.) Witty; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious; as, an ingenious reply.

(a.) Mental; intellectual.

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• Ingenious forms of hand-operated ironing machines for turning over and ironing the edges of collars, and other articles, are in successful use. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I thank you for your ingenious paper in favour of the trees. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The list would be too long to simply name all the ingenious machines there exhibited and subsequently invented for every important operation. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• About a month before this period, some ingenious Frenchman had completed the discovery in the manner originally proposed by Dr. Franklin. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Don't go on posturing like a Deaf and Dumb School,' said the ingenious Fledgeby, 'but express yourself like a Christian--or as nearly as you can. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• To overcome these three disturbing factors a very ingenious form of balance has been devised. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• In this field of telegraph application, as in others, Edison was a very early comer, his only predecessor being the fertile and ingenious Callahan, of stock-ticker fame. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• By another ingenious device the cord was tied and cut, when the sewing was completed. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The picture of a different state of things does not always function to aid ingenious observation and recollection to find a way out and on. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• I can't deny, I said, that the plan you propose meets the difficulty in a way that is very daring, and very ingenious, and very new. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Then, his preaching was ingenious and pithy, like the preaching of the English Church in its robust age, and his sermons were delivered without book. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It was a very ingenious device, and Hargreaves deserved the greatest credit for the skill with which he solved the problem. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• A house-carpenter seems to exercise rather a nicer and a more ingenious trade than a mason. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The method was no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his accomplice's hair. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• This iron shell is put in place segmentally by means of a shield, an ingenious mechanism which both protects the work under construction and assists in the building of the iron shell. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Cotton’s Compleat Gamster published in 1674, refers to billiards as This most gentle, cleanly and ingenious game. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The chewing gum wrapping machine is considered by machinery builders to be one of the most ingenious automatic manufacturing machines in use. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It requires several ship loads of wood to supply the requirements of Lucifer-match makers; and ingenious contrivances have been patented for cutting it up into splints of the proper size. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• This brings us to the gist of the ingenious way in which Edison substituted the action of electrochemical decomposition for that of the electromagnet to operate a relay. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• As it is impossible to make a perfectly round ball and have the weight equally distributed, the ball can not roll true; an ingenious device overcomes the difficulty. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• He is an ingenious fellow, too: he invented a machine for the cleaning of hemp--a really valuable affair; it's gone into use in several factories. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Each of these different articles require very ingenious machines. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• This, in connection with an ingenious management of springs, absorbed the shocks and governed the machine so that no matter what was done to it, it would operate only at a certain speed. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The success of Mr. Sowerberry's ingenious speculation, exceeded even his most sanguine hopes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• By an ingenious arrangement of the mechanism, the film moves intermittently so that it may have a much longer period of rest than of motion. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He had hit on a more ingenious mode of parrying than he was aware of. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• My acquaintance with ingenious people in the town increased. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• This ingenious article itself, without the elegant domino-box, card-basket, .c. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It was a brave conception; it was the offspring of a most ingenious brain. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• We must not conclude this notice of Paper Making Machinery without alluding to the ingenious self-acting mechanisms for making envelopes. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.

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