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layman

/ley-muhn/US // ˈleɪ mən //UK // (ˈleɪmən) //

外行,外行人,俗人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural lay·men.

    • : a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
    • : a person who is not a member of a given profession, as law or medicine.

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Examples

  • As it stands, there is a mismatch between the rules scientists write by compared with those that laymen read by.

  • Even a layman can see the unconnected letters and the strange angles of the note.

  • Art Layman: Could it be that Adelson is really a closet Dem?

  • Reading such a thing might convince the layman that getting hammered is healthy for the heart.

  • Nuclear jargon has evolved into a code that is indecipherable to the layman.

  • I was once present at a dispute between a layman and a clergyman, upon the subject of dreams.

  • Lawyers always underestimate the legal knowledge of an intelligent layman.

  • Of the writers who deal with music from the point of view of the cultivated layman, Aristotle is undoubtedly the most instructive.

  • They agreed in language too technical for a layman to understand that the cause of Doris' blindness was gradually disappearing.

  • The difference between maximum and minimum flow of most of our streams when stated in figures is startling to the layman.