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neophyte

/nee-uh-fahyt/US // ˈni əˌfaɪt //UK // (ˈniːəʊˌfaɪt) //

新手,新人,初学者,新丁

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a beginner or novice: He's a neophyte at chess.
    • : Roman Catholic Church. a novice.
    • : a person newly converted to a belief, as a heathen, heretic, or nonbeliever; proselyte.
    • : Primitive Church. a person newly baptized.

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Examples

  • At Hu’s direction, the neophyte spies started building a network.

  • Summarizing all of them is all but impossible for a franchise neophyte, and yet you never have to know all of this information to enjoy whatever movie you’re sitting down to watch.

  • Typically, teams with such a wide age disparity in their backcourt have had either a young star and a caretaker, or an older star and a precocious neophyte.

  • A political neophyte, Tikhanovskaya packed huge rallies, mobilizing thousands to march in protest, before fleeing last August across the border into Vilnius, where she now lives with her two children.

  • More and more, Nichols sought out talented people with complementary skills, so that even as a neophyte film director, his movies looked gorgeous, thanks to experienced craftspeople behind the scenes.

  • For the aficionado or the neophyte, Comics is a useful overview of a richly creative period in a burgeoning art.

  • Reagan is a political neophyte in a fairly conventional campaign for governor of California.

  • Southerland was a political neophyte who owned a string of funeral homes when he won his seat in 2010.

  • The other thing the film got wrong was the premise that David was a neophyte, better suited for interviewing the Bee Gees.

  • I will confess, with some shame, that I am a Saunders neophyte.

  • Assarac smiled with the good-humoured superiority of an adept condescending to the crude intelligence of a neophyte.

  • Beladon looked on his chief with the admiration of a neophyte for some grand professor of his art.

  • Selina, in the drawing-room, diligently fingered and classed brown-black pressed weeds of her neophyte's botany-folios.

  • "Otherwise I should have preferred starving to coming here," answered the laconic neophyte.

  • But if, on the one hand, we had lost the neophyte's fire, we had perhaps gained a little in tolerance.