生而知之shēng ér zhī zhībe born in the possession of knowledge; be born with innate wisdom
❍ 我非～者。(《论语·述而》) I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge；…/那个课本写毛主席的故事，把事情反过来，说他从小就不迷信，打破逃信，～。(《周恩来选集》上—332) The story about Chairman Mao in that textbook turned things the other way round when it said that he wasn’t superstitious as a child and that he was born with innate wisdom and had broken with superstition. |