boffin

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I'm no boffin, but I can spot a flaw in these tests.
我不是一个研究员，但是我能发现这些试验里的纰漏。
He saw himself as an “enlightened rationalist”, and looked the part, with his oiled hair and boffin’s glasses and strict attention to time.
他自认“有见识的唯理论者”——油发眼镜，军事研究员派头，恪守时间，看起来却有几分。
A boffin who collects data on butterflies, say, might want to upload it so that others with the same fascination can add their own information.
比如，一个拥有蝴蝶数据信息的研究员也愿意和有同样爱好的人共同分享，并且希望别人在不断添加新的数据资料进来。

Iraq's top nuclear boffin is also rumoured to be in coalition custody.
ECONOMIST: The conflict is over. Now for the casus belli
Keiser is your typical Bernstein boffin: smart, polite and thorough.
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a scientist who is considered to know a lot about science and not to be interested in other things