prodigy
noun /ˈprɒdədʒi/
/ˈprɑːdədʒi/
(plural prodigies)
- a young person whose intelligence or skill is unusually good for their age
（年轻的）天才，奇才，精英；神童 - a child/an infant prodigy
天才儿童；神童 - a musical prodigy
音乐奇才 - Mozart was an infant prodigy, composing music at the age of four.
莫扎特是个神童，四岁时就开始作曲。 - The 12-year-old prodigy will play America’s reigning chess champion next week.
那个12岁的神童将在下周迎战美国国际象棋冠军。
Collocations DictionaryProdigy is used after these nouns:- child
词源late 15th cent. (denoting something extraordinary considered to be an omen): from Latin prodigium ‘portent’. - a child/an infant prodigy