五个表示“天赋”、 “才能”的名词
talent、genius、gift、faculty、aptitude 这组词都可表示、“天赋” “才能”“天
资”、“天分”等意思。
talent 一般用词，指某一方面的天赋和才能。
例句：
She has a remarkable talent for staging and directing plays.
她在组织演出和导演戏剧方面有非凡天赋。
My sister has a great talent for painting when she was a middle school.
我姊姊在中学时有杰出绘画天赋。
Something should be done to prevent our best talents from being drained abroad.
应该采取措施防止最优秀的人才外流。
If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate
abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
如果你很有天赋，勤勉会使其更加完善；如果你能力一般，勤勉会补足其缺陷。
genius 语气较强，指非凡的才能。
例句:
Picasso’s artistic genius and achievement assured him of a dominant place in the
history of modern art.
毕加索的艺术天才和成保证了他在现代艺术史上的显著地位。
You and your parents can stop worrying — Edison, Darwin and lots more were far
from being geniuses in their teems.
你和你的父母不用担心,爱迪生,达尔文,会有许多其他名人在少年时代都远非什么天才。
A real genius possesses talents in many aspects, but they are brought into play only
by chance and in a single field.
真正的天才具有多方面的才能，只是处于偶然而仅在单一的领域中得到施展。
Dalton, the chemist, repudiated the notion of his being "a genius", attributing
everything which he had accomplished to simple industry and accumulation.
化学家道尔顿否定了他是 “天才” 的说法，并认为他所完成的一切都是靠勤奋和积累。
gift 指在某一方面的天赋，强调悟性好，但并非一定指创造性和独创性。
例句：
It seems that this child has a literary gift. He could write poems when he had just
started to write.
这孩子好像具有文学天赋，开笔就能写诗。
He has a special gift of being able to commit every detail to memory when he sees a
photo.
他有一种特殊的天赋，他看见一张照片后能吧每一细节都记忆下来。
He turned his artistic gift to good account by becoming a sculptor.
他发挥艺术天才, 成了雕刻家。
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without the work.
艺术家所拥有的不过就是天赋，而天赋离开了努力的工作则什么都不是。
faculty 侧重指智能上的天赋或才能。
例句：
He lacks the faculty of coping with the unexpected incidents at the critical moment.
他缺乏在关键时刻应对突发事件能力。
He seems to have an extraordinary faculty for negotiation with tough rivals.
他似乎有着优异的才能难打交道的对手进行谈判。
He has a great faculty for learning foreign languages.
他有学习外语的天赋.
He extends his nervous system and his thinking and decision-making faculties
through automation.
人类通过自动化扩展了人类神经系统的功能思维和决断的才能。
aptitude 正式用词，指在某方面有极高的天赋、天分、天资、资质和才能。
例句：
Edison had a remarkable aptitude for inventing new things.
爱迪生具有发明创造的非凡才能。
The son of a schoolmaster, he showed an extraordinary childhood aptitude for
music, studying the piano, violin, organ, singing and harmony etc.
他是一个学校教师的儿子, 童年就表现出非凡的音乐天赋,他学习钢琴,小提琴,风琴、
唱歌、和声等。
He seems to have the aptitude to be a detective.
他似乎很有当刑警的天分。
In my experience, if someone can run a network or a server, he has the aptitude to
handle programming.
以我的经验，如果某人可以操作、运行网络或服务器，他就具有学习编程的天资。
Paper qualification, though useful, is not a be-all-and-end-all. More weigh is given to
a candidate’s proven abilities and aptitude for the job.
文凭虽然有用，却不是一切，一纸定不了终身，应更看重求职者的真才实学和岗位资
质。