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Перевод: adept

[прилагательное]
сведущий; способный; ловкий; искусный;
[существительное]
знаток ; эксперт

Тезаурус:

1. By the end of the trip I was very adept at packing and unpacking.
2. This is not an office block, nor a church - although its sublime form might suggest that its architect was adept at designing cathedrals.
3. He is a media manipulator of genius, so adept at the mechanics of mass communication that he pauses mid-sentence when he sees that my cassette recorder has run out of tape, waiting patiently until I have inserted a new cassette before carrying on with what he was saying from exactly where he stopped.
4. But it is ironic that a generation that is so impatient with the cultural adaptations of other generations has been so adept at setting up its own.
5. Those who are most adept at wielding the bow are not always in control of the pen, and the few who possess equal facility in both often lack the will to write.
6. As a composer he proved himself adept at large dramatic forms laced with fantasy and irony, epitomised by his opera "The Love of Three Oranges", which had its premiere in Chicago in 1921.
7. There are people out there who reject the Tory ethos - plenty of them - and plenty more who embrace it only from fear, because capitalism is adept at producing fear and uncertainty.
8. The administration is an adept player and so is Congress.
9. Is it that men are simply less used to looking after themselves, less adept at creating the new social relationships they need?
10. David Minton, as adept as he is fortunate as an international bloodstock agent, concluded the deal which took Party Politics into the ownership of Mrs Patricia Thompson.
11. That it was signed by a partner called Hugh Jarse would lead the wary to conclude that the CV Society was as adept at pinching stationery as at extracting money out of fun-loving freshers: after only an hour it had sold four presidencies, six other posts and had about 40 names on a list headed "I'm interested in your society but don't want to cough up any money at the moment".
12. I am convinced that many students often do not understand what is being said in teaching situations, though they become adept at pretending to, as they do not wish to lose face.
13. At the time I was training to cross the abyss or pit to become an Adept.