amateur 的 2 个定义
- a person who engages in a study, sport, or other activity for pleasure rather than for financial benefit or professional reasons.Compare professional.
- an athlete who has never competed for payment or for a monetary prize.
- a person inexperienced or unskilled in a particular activity: Hunting lions is not for amateurs.
- a person who admires something; devotee; fan: an amateur of the cinema.
- characteristic of or engaged in by an amateur; nonprofessional: an amateur painter; amateur tennis.
amateur 近义词
casual participant
更多amateur例句
- In April Christina Massey, a Brooklyn-based artist, created Artists for the USPS, an Instagram-driven group that connected amateur and professional artists in pairs, all as part of a move to help support the service.
- Obviously, given that these are informal cookbooks full of recipes written by amateur chefs, not everything works.
- Alex Hill, a Brooklyn-based amateur chef, is bringing people together through social media.
- The technical barriers could prevent millions of amateur investors losing their shirts, which is what happened when the 2017 bubble popped.
- These amateurs who think they’re experts don’t stand a chance, but do stand a chance of really getting sucked in.
- Launched late last week, Ready for Romney appears to be, at best, political amateur hour.
- Can you imagine Superman being handed over to a writer just a notch above amateur?
- Thankfully, the Coleman kids reached a Burger King, and Wahlberg and his amateur biker gang rode off.
- Sharp did lots of school plays, which led to a role in amateur operetta, then professional pantomime.
- Today, though, professional and amateur historians can build counter-narratives that are hard to dismantle.
- To assist the amateur and collector in this pursuit is the object of the present little work.
- A Cremona Violin is, to a rich amateur, a loadstone that is sure to attract the shining metal from the depths of his purse.
- The tone is with few exceptions sweet in quality and seldom powerful, but admirably suited to the amateur.
- The Dictionary we have compiled will tell the amateur what names will most probably supply the qualities he desires.
- In considering the first point, power, the amateur will have to beware of a very possible mistake he may fall into.