neophyte / ˈni əˌfaɪt /

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neophyte 的定义

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

neophyte 近义词

n. 名词 noun

beginner

更多neophyte例句

  1. At Hu’s direction, the neophyte spies started building a network.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. For the aficionado or the neophyte, Comics is a useful overview of a richly creative period in a burgeoning art.
  7. Reagan is a political neophyte in a fairly conventional campaign for governor of California.
  8. Southerland was a political neophyte who owned a string of funeral homes when he won his seat in 2010.
  9. The other thing the film got wrong was the premise that David was a neophyte, better suited for interviewing the Bee Gees.
  10. I will confess, with some shame, that I am a Saunders neophyte.
  11. Assarac smiled with the good-humoured superiority of an adept condescending to the crude intelligence of a neophyte.
  12. Beladon looked on his chief with the admiration of a neophyte for some grand professor of his art.
  13. Selina, in the drawing-room, diligently fingered and classed brown-black pressed weeds of her neophyte's botany-folios.
  14. "Otherwise I should have preferred starving to coming here," answered the laconic neophyte.
  15. But if, on the one hand, we had lost the neophyte's fire, we had perhaps gained a little in tolerance.