Yokki, a. Clever, expert: a yokki juva, a yokki woman--a female expert at filching, ringing the changes, telling fortunes, and other Gypsy arts. Yoga (artifice, plan), Yuj (to combine, put together, plan).英文原著 · 《Gypsy Dictionary》
"I wrote to a friend out West and he put me in communication with a mining expert who set to work to find out all about the mine. The expert sent me word, late in the fall, that the mine was, in his opinion, located on a vein of gold well worth working."英文原著 · 《Joe The Hotel Boy》
Night by night, Smoke continued to win. His method of play varied. Expert after expert, in the jam about the table, scribbled down his bets and numbers in vain attempts to work out his system. They complained of their inability to get a clew to start with, and swore that it was pure luck, though the most colossal streak of it they had ever seen.英文原著 · 《Smoke Bellew》
"There's no use of sending the Judge, anyhow," said Raleigh, fearing by the glitter that came into the eye of the commander that trouble might ensue unless pacificatory measures were resorted to. "He's accustomed to weighing everything carefully, and cannot be rushed into a decision. If he saw any evidence, he'd have to sit on it a week before reaching a conclusion. What we need here more than anything else is an expert seaman, a lookout, and I nominate Shem. He has sailed under his father, and I have it on good authority that he is a nautical expert."英文原著 · 《The Pursuit of the House-Boat》
His other accomplishments are pallid in the light of his brilliant left hand. Once, at Derry--he attended a cock- fight, and beguiled an interval by emptying the pockets of a lucky bookmaker. An expert, who watched the exploit in admiration, could not withhold a compliment. `You are the Switcher,' he exclaimed; `some take all, but you leave nothing.' And it is as the Switcher that Haggart keeps his memory green.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
Almost every one of my sisters had some distinctive aptitude with her fingers. One worked exquisite lace-embroidery; another had a knack at cutting and fitting her doll's clothing so perfectly that the wooden lady was always a typical specimen of the genteel doll-world; and another was an expert at fine stitching, so delicately done that it was a pleasure to see or to wear anything her needle had touched. I had none of these gifts. I looked on and admired, and sometimes tried to imitate, but my efforts usually ended in defeat and mortification.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
Oh, please, I'd love to hear more of your expertise on flat whites.美剧 · 《Billions》
So I don't know if I'm an expert, or if anyone is an expert. I certainly have done a lot of research. So I don't know if I'm an expert, or if anyone is an expert. I certainly have done a lot of research.演讲 · 《So we leaned in ... now what ~ Sheryl Sandberg》