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laymen

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

外行,俗人,外行人,俗家人

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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

  • I was privileged enough to view facilities laymen rarely visit.

  • But, legal value not being the only value, let us now consider the evidence as mere laymen.

  • His stay in Limerick was particularly successful, and he founded a religious confraternity of laymen which numbered 5000 members.

  • I conjectured he must be a priest, the priests in Germany being accustomed to dress exactly in the same style as laymen.

  • Doubtless; you know well there were more than a hundred laymen listening to your discourse.

  • The stuff is such an evident fraud that one would imagine that even intelligent laymen could not be deceived by it.