(informal, chiefly Brit.)a person engaged in scientific or technical research (非正式,主 英)科技工作者,科研人员 a computer boffin. 计算机科学家。 ■a person with knowledge or a skill considered to be complex, arcane, and difficult (掌握复杂、艰深的学问或技术的) 专家 he had a reputation as a tax boffin, a learned lawyer. 他以税务专家、博学的律师而享有盛誉。