boffins

英 [ˈbɒfɪnz]

美

n.  (尤指从事研究工作的)科学家，研究员
boffin的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT （尤指从事研究工作的）科学家，科技工作者
  Aboffinis a scientist, especially one who is doing research.
  1. The boffins of Imperial College in London think they may have found a solution.
     伦敦帝国理工学院的科研人员认为他们可能已经找到了解决办法。
• N-COUNT 奇才；天才
  Very clever people are sometimes calledboffins.
  1. A computer boffin is set to make £5million from his revolutionary photo technology.
     一个计算机天才准备靠他开发的革命性影像技术赚取500万英镑。

双语例句

• THERE have been several cases in which well-meaning boffins have introduced a new species to overcome one problem only to create another.
  科研人员好意引进新物种以解决当地问题，往往一波未平一波又起。这种情况已经屡见不鲜。
• The boffins of Imperial College in London think they may have found a solution.
  伦敦帝国理工学院的科研人员认为他们可能已经找到了解决办法。
• Boffins at the aquarium admit they are baffled by the appearance of the man's face, which appears to be gawping up at a shark.
  博物馆中的研究人员也对这直愣愣盯着鲨鱼看的“男人面孔”感到困惑。
• The editor of a science journal warned me that I would find little to interest mainstream readers the boffins would agree on pretty much everything.
  一家科学杂志的编辑警告我，我不会发现任何能让主流读者感兴趣的东西，这些科学家几乎对一切都会表示赞同。
• Housing boffins regard negative equity as the best predictor of default, which is why they take loan-to-value ratios very seriously.
  住房研究者认为负资产是违约的最好预测指标，这就是为什么他们总是很严肃地对待贷款额/房价比的原因。
• They included rewards for boffins who had researched into why woodpeckers don't get headaches from all that tapping, and whether dung beetles really enjoy their diet of faeces.
  其中包括奖励研究啄木鸟为什么不头疼、龟子是否真正享受大粪的科学家们。
• It is not just that a Chinese boffin in Beijing reads papers written by Chinese boffins in America.
  不仅仅是在北京的中国研究院阅读在美国的华裔写的论文。
• At his instigation, pfizer's secretive boffins unveiled details of the firm's drugs pipeline, disclosing information for the first time on more than half of its30 research programmes.
  在他的鼓励下，辉瑞的幕后研究人员在活动中透露了公司许多研发中药品的细节，首次披露了其30个研发项目中过半项目的信息。
• A13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA's estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth, a German newspaper reported Tuesday, after spotting the boffins had miscalculated.
  德国一家报纸于本周二报道，德国一名13岁男孩发现并纠正了美国宇航局有关一颗小行星与地球相撞几率的计算错误。
• Elsewhere, boffins are working on locomotive engines that run on methanol extracted from grass growing alongside India's railway lines, and on super-compact medical equipment that costs a fraction of the price of similar products in the west.
  在其它区域，科研人员正在研制一种以印度铁道两旁生长的野草提取的甲醇为燃料的机车发动机，以及超小型医疗设备价格只是西方类似产品的零头。