No wonder boffins have their eye on the news from Geneva.

难怪员都关注着日内瓦的消息。

Yeah, I'm a bit of a boffin; clever person.

是的，我有点像个棺材；聪明。

You'll become much more of a boffin if you read a slightly more intellectual newspaper.

如果你读一份稍微更有知识性的报纸，你会变得更像一个棺材。

The boffins behind it think that new physical forms of the element, known as allotropes, may offer ways around both the partial-combustion and the toxicity problems.

员认为，这种元素的新物理形式，即同素异形体，可能会供解决部分燃烧和毒性问题的方法。

Language has been enriched with such terms as 'highbrow', 'egghead', 'blue-stocking', 'wiseacre', 'know-all', 'boffin' and, for many, 'intellectual' is a term of denigration.

语言中充斥着“高雅”、“书呆子”、“蓝袜子”、“聪明”、“万事通”、“科学家”等术语，对许多来说，“知识分子”是一个贬义词。

Of the four, the nearest to a conventional boffin was Maurice Wilkins, who had spent much of the Second World War helping to design the atomic bomb.

他们4位中最称得上是普通的设计师的是莫利·威，他在第二次世界大战期间的许多时间里待在密室中帮助设计原子弹。

Chinese engineers made up 27% of that select group in 2019. Many Chinese AI boffins studied or worked in America before bringing expertise back home.

2019 年，中国工程师占该精选群体的 27%。许多中国 AI 员在将专业知识带回国内之前曾在美国学习或工作。

Now, what I want you to do is become a bit of a " boffin" , a " clever person" , and go to the quiz, and get 10 out of 10.

现在，我要你做的是成为一个“boffin” ，一个“聪明” ，然后去参加测验， 并在 10 分中获得 10 分。

For example, words like blockbuster, nose-dive, shell-shocked, camouflage, radar, barrage, boondocks, roadblock, snafu, boffin, brainwashing, spearhead, etc, are all military terms which have made their way into standard English during the World Wars.

例如，像 blockbuster、nose-dive、shell-shocked、camouflage、radar、barrage、boondocks、roadblock、snafu、boffin、brainwashing、spearhead 等词都是军事术语， 这些词在世界范围内进入了标准英语战争。