Among the most famous of Cambridge polymaths are Sir Isaac Newton.

剑桥最有名气的者要算是艾萨克·牛顿了，此外还有弗朗西斯培。

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知识或专业知识的人。

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 它由德国博家戈特弗里德·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的地方，但这位博的护士还没有结束她的事业。

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科的作家侯世达认为，当人们通过机器进行交谈时，一些刻的东西会消失。

Perhaps Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci springs to mind.

也许文艺复兴时期的博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.

他的其他同类一样，史酷蒂是一个会变色、会变形、超级聪明、多肢、博的人。

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，即使在一个博多才的时代，这位意大利托斯卡纳区的大师的兴趣之也超乎常人。

While polymath inventors are less deep than the specialists, they tend to be even broader than the generalists.

虽然博发明家的知识度不如专家，但他们往往比通才。

Leonardo da Vinci, a polymath of the Renaissance era, has captivated generations with his boundless creativity and genius.

文艺复兴时期的博之士列奥纳多·达·芬奇以其无限的创造力天才吸引了几代人。

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

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

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 世纪初的特权家庭，她是一位博多才的天才，会说多种语言，并开创了至今仍在使用的统计分析概念。

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.

因为这些数家博多才，能把他们的众多成就解释给普通人看的传记作家本身就寥寥无几。

But the really enviable type is the " polymath, " who possesses deep expertise in one or more core areas but also knows the " adjacent stuff" in dozens of other technological domains.

但真正令人羡慕的类型是“博者”，他们在一个或多个核心领域拥有厚的专业知识，但也了解数十个其他技术领域的“相邻内容”。

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，的书，作者是安德里亚·沃尔夫 (Andrea Wulf)，他是一位作家，写了一部非常著名的探险家传记，博多才，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。直到一位聪颖博的英国者托马斯杨发现，一组在石碑上反复出现的象形文字代表了一个王室姓氏的发音—托勒密。

In 1665, during a period of rapid scientific progress, Robert Hooke, an English polymath, described the advent of new scientific instruments such as the microscope and telescope as " the adding of artificial organs to the natural" .

1665年，在科飞速进步的时期，英国博者罗伯特·胡克将显微镜、望远镜等新科仪器的出现描述为“在自然中添加了人造器官”。

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.

这种规定主义的一个令人耳目一新的例外是科家兼博家约瑟夫·普里斯特利 (Joseph Priestley) 的“英语语法基础”，它在表达语法是由普通用法定义的观点而不是由自封的语法家规定的观点时不同寻常。