English Dictionary

idiot-savant

noun

A mentally challenged person who is very gifted in one area of activity, e.g. playing the piano, or mental arithmetic. This condition is associated with autism.

He is an idiot-savant in mathematics.

意味（1）

A mentally challenged person who is very gifted in one area of activity, e.g. playing the piano, or mental arithmetic. This condition is associated with autism.

That slightly wide-eyed boyishness has given him a career playing ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, whether that be everyone's favourite idiot-savant Forrest Gump (1994), a pilot who saves the day in Sully (2016), or the beleaguered Captain Miller of Saving Private Ryan (1998).