| 单词 | boffin |
| 例句 | But the plot soon proves as elusive as the boffin, rapidly abandoned in favour of increasingly bizarre left turns and hilarious digressions, including a hilarious routine about devising a new system of mathematics. This week's new comedy 2011-03-05T00:07:44Z Paul was a boffin, whose early experiments with solid body guitars and pick-ups were derided by music business big shots. The Trial of Qwerty; Les Paul: The Final Words of a Pioneer and Guitar Legend; Archive Hour; Farming Today 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z Dr. Greene will be doing his tricks as part of the opening gala for the World Science Festival, the annual jamboree of science, culture and art that mixes boffins and boldface names. The World Science Festival Arrives in New York 2012-05-24T22:01:03Z A team of boffins who can actually do stuff take a London taxi into their workshop and turn it into an amphibious London taxi. TV review: Stephen Fry: Gadget Man; I Want To Change 2012-11-19T22:29:01Z Gwilym Mumford The titular question would appear to be the very definition of unanswerable but, as this typically intriguing documentary demonstrates, there are boffins who beg to differ. TV highlights 27/08/2012 2012-08-26T18:59:01Z Instead, let's celebrate the memory of a national treasure that charmed and educated through the simple expedient of bejumpered boffins at toil in soil. RIP Time Team, you were a national treasure 2013-03-23T06:00:00Z Rooney says the exhibition is also intended to destroy the impression of Turing as a solitary boffin: it includes many of the people he worked with, who regarded him with awe and affection. Alan Turing: the short, brilliant life and tragic death of an enigma 2012-06-20T16:48:51Z BA Our lives, as Cambridge maths boffin Professor David Spiegelhalter argues, begin and end at the mercy of chance. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 15-19 October 2012-10-15T07:00:00Z Geoffrey Streatfeild leads the cast as a boffin with his head in chemical experiments while cholera, starvation and romantic entanglements rage around him. This week's new theatre 2013-04-06T05:00:17Z Channel N Psychology-related video clips including a boffin discussing "memory inception during sleep" and an Australian who thinks the pursuit of happiness causes misery. Internet picks of the week 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z The boffins behind the brands, including an interview with the man who remixes classic Puma shoes for a living. Internet picks of the week 2011-07-29T23:10:36Z By contrast, Labour policy wonk David Miliband spent so long in lecture rooms with climate boffins in 2006 and 2007 that he had been moved to the Foreign Office before he got out of school. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z Creating this level of intimacy required me to focus solely on this select group of British boffins, led by the charismatic Zarnecki. Destination Titan: Mission impossible? 2011-04-08T16:21:00Z All four discs captured the production in an almost-but-not-quite-finished state, with missing voiceovers and the odd "note to self" jotted in subtitles, reminding boffins and dubbers to fix this or that. The Crimson Petal and the White: Watching my novel reborn on TV 2011-04-06T14:13:06Z It's better than the latter, but sadly the story is as pasty as Franco's performance, playing a boffin who develops an antidote to Alzheimer's that works brilliantly on apes but has dire consequences for humanity. This week's new films 2011-08-12T23:07:30Z But the Russian-born boffin, personable but unassuming in jeans and a grey jumper, is no mad scientist. Art and science collide to reopen Whitworth gallery 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z By dipping into the vast data trails left by credit cards, web searches and social media, boffins are, we learn, able to monitor, predict and even influence our actions with alarming levels of accuracy. TV highlights 30/05/2013 2013-05-30T06:00:16Z Others said he worked in management at Mitani, perhaps overseeing a team of boffins dedicated to the field of chip seasoning. Chicken salt: the rise and fall (and rise again?) of Australia's favourite condiment | Adam Liaw 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z These boffins are looking for peculiarities of light that will hopefully unearth a black hole – and to do so they're using the Very Large Telescope, or VLT. TV highlights 15/08/2011 2011-08-14T20:59:00Z Scientists, doctors and boffins are the worst people in the world for business. The Apprentice final pits 'business Barbie' against doctor with a dream 2013-07-14T14:17:48Z Alt-J will remain the boffin kings of the music industry until a new band gets famous for graduating. Universities should open their ears to live music 2013-05-09T07:40:36Z One boffin predicts that the desire for high-performance bionic body parts will eventually drive us to cut off our legs and replace them with "better legs". How To Build A Bionic Man is unnerving, awe-inspiring stuff 2013-02-02T06:00:03Z Al-Khalili profiles the astronomers, mathematicians and sundry boffins who have pondered the fundamental truths of our existence. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-03-21T08:00:02Z As Mr Abraham follows their extraction, he finds geologists, refiners, traders, smugglers and boffins whose stories add to the intrigue of this shadowy trade. Unobtainiums 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z “It fits into this idea that a group of boffins with a bit of wool and some yards of wire and some bits and bobs can win the war,” he said. The UK’s AI summit is taking place at Bletchley Park, the wartime home of codebreaking and computing 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z Fair play to the historians, and their big boffin heads, but we're not buying it. Scotland need new breed of 'gallus' 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z It is leaders who lead, the critics of lockdowns say, and scientific boffins who advise. Delta variant spread puts Boris Johnson in a tough spot, as he weighs whether U.K. should fully reopen 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z The news media nicknamed the trio “Boris and the boffins” — British slang for science mavens. U.K. Coronavirus Briefings Offer a More Genteel Spin Than Trump’s 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z In a UK still guilty of stereotyping Germans as efficient and cool – and the group themselves slyly playing up to that – they are also often dismissed as a heritage act of eccentric boffins. Kraftwerk: where to start in their back catalogue 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z He has attained an impressive level of scientific understanding himself, but with it has come more than a touch of the boffin’s bee-filled bonnet. Inside the mind of Dominic Cummings 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z It was by smashing atoms — well, splitting them — that the lab-coated boffins at the Carnegie Institution stretched the boundaries of knowledge. Perspective | Making history — and smashing atoms — in a leafy part of Chevy Chase, D.C. 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z According to the boffins at Spotify we make the most enduring emotional connections to the songs we enjoyed in our mid-late teenage years. Why are there so many music films lately? 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z But how well do Britain’s top TV boffins explain topics such as quantum mechanics, artificial intelligence and bubbles? Daily briefing: Nature editors review Ladybird books 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z A self-confessed "computer boffin" who back in 1997 was living at home with his mum in Cheltenham, in the west of England, he spotted a business opportunity. 'I stole £30,000 from my mum to make millions' 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z The "Slough Experiment" began, during which all kinds of ways of getting from one side of the road to the other were tested across the town, with laboratory boffins eventually settling on the zebra crossing. Eight things Slough gave the world 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z It might be an oversimplification to call today's older teenagers "boffins" and those at that age around the millennium "boozers", the ONS suggests. What's life like for 18-year-olds today? 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z As a sub-headline summarised: “Scorchers could go on for decades say boffins”. Was this the scorcher that finally ended climate denial? | Michael McCarthy 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z He was like a boffin putting together the ultimate fake footballer – except he was also the boffin’s subject. The weird world of football's greatest conman Carlos Kaiser | Rob Smyth 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z In every case, the boffins were more bearish than the bettors. Despite Germany’s exit, this World Cup has been quite predictable 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z “Whitehall boffins are trying to demarcate areas of knowledge and culture, trying to distill them into British identity, which is kind of amorphous,” he added, using a British term for a nerdish expert. So, Meghan Markle, Are You Familiar With the Statute of Rhuddlan? 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z Off to one side were a dozen or so boffins, poring over telemetry data. Nascar's Danica Patrick drove the lonely road to a feminist legacy 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z It's an approach most bands in their fourth decade would reject, but McCluskey and Humphreys are proper studio boffins, constantly excavating new sounds and tweaking existing ones in pursuit of the perfect song. The weird and wonderful world of OMD - BBC News 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Put simply, there is not much time for boffins when someone is dying on your operating table. When surgery is just a stitch-up 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z There’s talk of 60%-80% chance of rain this afternoon, according to the weather boffins. F1: Austrian Grand Prix – live! 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z By early afternoon, clear patterns are beginning to emerge, allowing the boffins to start to make more detailed predictions about seats won and lost. Election 2017: campaign enters final day amid human rights row – politics live 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z As well as developing green vehicles and driverless technology, the Tesla boffins are designing batteries capable of storing power from rooftop solar panels. Sparks fly on Wall Street over Tesla’s current valuation 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z The boffin behind James Bond's lethal array of gadgets like car ejector-seats and exploding toothpaste - known only as "Q" - has always been portrayed in the 007 films as a man. Pay attention 007! Gadget whizz 'Q' is a woman in real life 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Cowley was a good deal quieter than Sylvester, and more of a tech boffin, experimenting with music in an apartment in the Castro crammed with electronics, with cables hanging everywhere. San Fran-disco: how Patrick Cowley and Sylvester changed dance music forever 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Art has long been hardwired to the now and what’s next, but increasingly artists and lab boffins are providing new possibilities for the form. DNA paintings and robot comedians: what will pop culture look like in the future? 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Was he attacking some sort of distant boffin he imagines slaving in a lab to come up with theories to attack him? Manchester United’s José Mourinho: no longer the bright young iconoclast | Jonathan Wilson 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z In 2012 Britain’s energy boffins predicted that for the foreseeable future the price of non-nuclear fuels, such as natural gas, would be more than double where they are today. When the facts change... 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Science careers are not "boring or only for boffins", says Prof Brian Cox. Science careers not only for boffins, says Prof Brian Cox - BBC News 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z From China to California, boffins are improving their ability to cultivate diamonds in labs. In the rough 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z “We need to stay physical,” Klinsmann told his team at half-time last night, according to the Fox Sports sideline boffins. USA were dazzled by Argentina - even if they were dazzled by the best 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z These boffins design algorithms to find patterns in big piles of digital information. LinkedUp 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z In search of an answer, in 1795 the French government embraced crowd-sourcing, and offered a prize to any boffin able to solve the quandary. The Whole History of the World Is Contained Within Your Breakfast 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z You refer to the New Caledonian crow as a boffin, or technological geek. Here's Why 'Birdbrain' Should Be a Compliment Business is good for farmers of crocodilians, who will gather this month with conservationists and other boffins at a biennial powwow not far from Mr Süssmann’s farm. Snappy dressers 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Statistical improvements are also promised by India’s boffins. The elephant in the stats 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Bristolian boffins are proudest not of this physical infrastructure but of the way it is organised. Data deluge 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z The idea was to coax the universities’ boffins into business ventures. The great divergence 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z Photographers will be out in force when Formula One's new cars start testing on Monday with team boffins looking closely at the pictures to try and answer a key concern: Have they missed a trick? Fun and games ahead as Formula One testing starts 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z You've given the boffins a helping hand by suggesting possible names. Come in #PlanetNine - BBC News 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Why don't these boffins do a study on the decline of our national team at tournament's. 'Club-trained players at new low' 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z The lab has no Q-type boffin with Hollywood-esque fire-quenching gadgets, but it does have a team of engineers, physicists, meteorologists, ecologists and computer geeks who devise models and tools for colleagues in the field. Welcome to the fire lab: California researchers re-create forest blazes 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z Even as we sit here now in 2015, boffins employed by the 2045 Initiative are eagerly hacking away at the coalface of immortality. How will sport look in 30 years? 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Force us to sell Openreach, and the innovation you see here might stop happening, was the argument as we heard about the soaring number of patents for inventions by BT boffins. Broadband Britain - is it working? - BBC News 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Shell is staffed more by boffins than roughnecks, who pride themselves on their ability to overcome great challenges with technology. A rig too far 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z "I made that sound on a Tempest," she said about the "Figure 8" moment, referring to a hybrid drum machine and synthesizer made by Dave Smith, and a new favorite of studio boffins. How FKA Twigs crashed the alphas-of-pop party 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Zopa’s launch in 2005 prompted admiring glances from technology boffins and finance gurus alike, but didn’t immediately capture the public’s imagination. Happy Birthday Zopa, The Inventor Of P2P 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z While the idea of measuring influence through newspaper mentions will elicit howls of protest from tweed-clad boffins sprawled across faculty lounges around the country, the results are fascinating. How Economists Came to Dominate the Conversation 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Before 2010 some cash for taught master’s degrees was available from Britain’s seven state-backed research councils, which fund boffins in British universities. A little help 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z However, over and above the simple joy of seeing boffins doing their boffinry there’s a further joy in the manner in which such projects disintermediate around the political classes. The Joy Of The Kickstarter Crowdfunded Mission To The Moon 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Never having done anything similar, Munster did what boffins do: he drew up an intricate flow chart for how to hoover up homes. Enfield tears up rules in radical attempt to ease housing problem 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Or might the defence boffins really be war-gaming a British attack on the US? The case for Trident is absurd. Scotland may help us get rid of it 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z We all knew that there were top secret establishments, including one where spooks and boffins researched mysterious and deadly weapons of germ warfare. The front line of the UK's Ebola prevention efforts 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z The same boffins are working on a similar app that will be able to translate languages in real time. Google Glass apps for non-geeks 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z There was no ranking of dangers by Andy Haldane, the Bank's top economics boffin, in a speech delivered in restorative Scarborough last night, but he did share some serious anxieties about overheated financial markets. Investors go mad (again) 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Last year the Ministry of Defence invited boffins to join a part-time cyber-defence force, which is modelled on conventional army reserves. Fresh meat 2014-05-01T04:00:00Z He would also fund more basic research—the cutting-edge stuff that lab-based boffins do. The president’s budget: Sliding away 2014-03-06T16:01:17Z The Loop trundled off down the corridors of Broadcasting House to the boffins in the radio control room. The Loop: Pip pip cheerio 2014-02-07T17:08:29Z It was making technology seem like something that belonged to us rather than boffins. What happened to the McIntosh apple? 2014-01-22T00:13:46Z The British boffin still uses a pencil and pad in his Milton Keynes office, happily labeling himself the last of the design dinosaurs, while overseeing others who put concepts into practice. Newey excited by new challenge 2013-10-28T17:25:29Z That is where the firm’s boffins engineer them. A Mexican start-up: Border buzz 2013-10-24T15:01:56Z But some security boffins argue that companies should be given more legal latitude to probe those servers. Business and cyber-crime: Firewalls and firefights 2013-08-08T15:00:01Z But pips broadcast via the radio online are the least accurate, according to the boffins. The Loop: Pip pip cheerio 2014-02-07T17:08:29Z At the Knowhow desk, your computer might well be fixed within minutes by cheerful boffins in smart uniforms. We won't need a PC World NHS if more of us go private 2013-07-30T04:00:01Z So, I tweeted all my science-loving followers and asked them what they felt about the word 'boffin'. Boffin Backlash: do scientists resent being called that? 2013-07-26T06:30:00Z After two weeks of trying, NASA’s boffins have been unable to restore Kepler to working order. Planetary science: Lost and found 2013-06-06T15:01:29Z The place where the Honda mechanics work is so pristine and clinical it looks more like a laboratory than a garage: this is where boffins build what one calls "rocket ships for roads". Wet and wild at the North West 200 2013-05-20T10:51:13Z Occasionally they offer to advise the boffins how to run it better. Schumpeter: Titans of innovation 2013-04-25T15:03:50Z From the outset as soon as qualifying had ended it was always going to be an intriguing battle between the team's technical boffins as to who had made the right strategy call. Alonso surges to China GP win 2013-04-14T08:50:47Z A scientist objecting to being called a boffin, perhaps somewhat excessively. Boffin Backlash: do scientists resent being called that? 2013-07-26T06:30:00Z Now he's back as Marussia's boffin, having served out the lengthy ban for his role in the infamous saga. Marussia: F1 2013 team guide 2013-03-11T14:05:01Z Using iPS-cell patents, business-minded boffins are busy inventing new ways to rebuild retina tissue to prevent blindness among the elderly, for example. Health care in Japan: Regenerative medicine 2013-02-21T16:03:41Z In a Big Science project, teams with rival proposals spar publicly, forcing all the boffins to articulate their assumptions, justify their choices and learn enough about their rivals’ ideas to criticise them at length. Schumpeter: Titans of innovation 2013-04-25T15:03:50Z The Nasa team that landed the huge Curiosity robot rover on Mars in August didn’t look anything like the archetypal space agency boffins. Faces of the year: The men 2012-12-28T04:57:15Z The results of my laughably basic survey strongly suggest that, overall, people in the science community resent being referred to as boffins as it encourages unfair stereotyping, something many of us are actively combating. Boffin Backlash: do scientists resent being called that? 2013-07-26T06:30:00Z If the boffins in Boston were going to miniaturise it enough to pack it into a modestly sized craft, they'd need some new technology, and they turned to an emerging invention called the integrated circuit. Apollo 40 years on: how the moon missions changed the world for ever 2012-12-16T00:04:04Z To be honest I find the word "boffin" far more offensive. Are 'geek' and 'nerd' now positive terms? 2012-11-16T01:07:50Z Battles allow boffins to let off steam, so grudges seldom fester. Schumpeter: Titans of innovation 2013-04-25T15:03:50Z With the boffins in the ascendant, the future of reporting may be more boring. Election forecasting: Running numbers 2012-11-08T16:00:19Z Surprisingly, some responses expressed a positive opinion of the term boffin. Boffin Backlash: do scientists resent being called that? 2013-07-26T06:30:00Z Is it time to forget the stereotypes of engineers and technologists as nerds, geeks and boffins? Why are so few women working in technology? 2012-10-01T20:00:01Z "What is it?" the good-looking boffin asks after briefly playing with an executive toy on the desk. From robot trader to computer overlord? 2012-08-15T00:05:15Z But two timely new books remind us that boffins continue to make the world a better place even as politicians strive to do the opposite. Schumpeter: Now for some good news 2012-03-01T16:00:40Z Our top boffins are on the case to iron out these problems and we won't bring it back until we're satisfied it's back for good! Live - Saturday's Scottish football 2012-02-18T13:33:59Z Overall, it seems like some people do think boffin is a positive term, but this takes some effort. Boffin Backlash: do scientists resent being called that? 2013-07-26T06:30:00Z Is it time to forget the tired stereotypes of engineers and technologists as nerds and geeks and boffins? Why are so few women working in technology? 2012-10-01T20:00:01Z The NSF boffins fret that America’s share of global R&D spending is falling. Research and development: Brain gain 2012-01-19T16:07:07Z Why, indeed, is it relevant retroactively to scrub clean the record of a boffin born nearly a century ago? Why Should Britain Pardon Alan Turing? 2011-12-07T13:18:00Z In the late 1940s the chain agreed to underwrite some of Edsac's development in return for the Cambridge boffins' help in devising a computer that could process business information. How Lyons teashops powered computers 2011-08-26T19:40:23Z I thought the only people who actually referred to scientists as 'boffins' were Sun journalists... Boffin Backlash: do scientists resent being called that? 2013-07-26T06:30:00Z Better still, some boffin could surely simulate a match between an all-time World XI and the current Stoke side. Why wet, windy Stoke has the answer to everything 2011-07-29T21:54:01Z The Magazine seeks tips from a teacher, a scientist, a philosopher, a cricket buff and two political boffins. The art of explaining stuff 2011-04-28T13:33:22Z Top left Bottom left Top right Bottom right Nasa boffins hope Messenger will not suffer the same fate as Japan's Akatsuki probe, which in December failed to enter orbit with Venus. 7 questions on space probes 2011-02-23T02:15:54Z The boffins showed that all those years in university paid off by revealing that Barcelona have, on average, the shortest team in Europe and Internazionale have the oldest squad. Kuddly Ken Bates, and a Cock-eyed warlord, pure and simple 2011-01-19T17:10:55Z Not necessarily an insult, but clearly suggests boffins are not regular people. Boffin Backlash: do scientists resent being called that? 2013-07-26T06:30:00Z The protective underpants are known as "tier 1" of the protective system, with the second layer, or "combat codpiece", simply known as "tier 2" by the MoD's equipment boffins. 'Combat codpiece' 2010-12-17T01:33:11Z Geologist and TV presenter, Professor Iain Stewart still feels the effects, saying "the rest of us are always having to fight off the idea that we're these boffins". Expert telly 2010-12-15T09:32:27Z Having lots of boffins does not matter, though, if they are not productive. Global science: Climbing Mount Publishable 2010-11-11T11:00:14Z Well you may be about to find out anyway as boffins in boffin HQ Switzerland have revealed that European footballers are getting taller. Kuddly Ken Bates, and a Cock-eyed warlord, pure and simple 2011-01-19T17:10:55Z Exactly what is meant by the word "boffin" varies considerably between individuals. Boffin Backlash: do scientists resent being called that? 2013-07-26T06:30:00Z Fundamental Units of Science Another set of problems spring from the attitude journalists seem to have towards science – or at least those who aren't still describing researchers with the faintly bigoted and dehumanising term "boffins". Why I spoofed science journalism 2010-10-05T15:29:00Z Photograph: Sang Tan/AP It used to be said in jest that lawyers are more important to big pharmaceutical companies than the boffins in the labs. Glaxo's settlement makes the dividend safer ? probably 2010-07-15T19:32:00Z Mr Medvedev also intends to visit Silicon Valley to see if Russia can learn from America’s high-tech boffins how to jump-start its own technology cluster. The coming days: The week ahead 2010-06-20T07:21:00Z How you would solve a problem like Eyjafjallajokull The Magazine asked boffins for their most outlandish - but still scientifically-possible - solutions to the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud. Tow it away 2010-05-20T10:37:00Z Do boffins find the same things funny as us regular citizens? Boffin Backlash: do scientists resent being called that? 2013-07-26T06:30:00Z Despite their abject failings in rating as Triple A some of the riskier instruments created by the investment banking boffins, their verdict continues to dictate the way that debt is priced. Too Late to Change Your Minds, Gents 2010-05-05T21:48:00Z Some boffins who we do some work with have connected it up to a Rollodex, so as you spin through your contacts, a motor spins through the rollodex. Chris Atkins: 'Sometimes I want to punch people who make technology' 2010-04-09T16:50:00Z Is it wise to trust these bumbling boffins with the fate of the Earth? Powerful Collider Set to Smash Protons 2010-02-15T15:34:00Z This was just six feet of machine that boffins and brain-boys had turned out for their own amusement. Arm of the Law Nerds and geeks are currently "cool", or at least acceptable in the mainstream, and some believe the same is true of boffin by-proxy. Boffin Backlash: do scientists resent being called that? 2013-07-26T06:30:00Z The most common complaint was that boffin encouraged unfair stereotyping of scientists I think it perpetuates the stereotypical image of a wild-haired scientific lunatic. Boffin Backlash: do scientists resent being called that? 2013-07-26T06:30:00Z |
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