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。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryProdigy is used after these nouns:- child
Word Originlate 15th cent. (denoting something extraordinary considered to be an omen): from Latin prodigium ‘portent’.