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rookie

/rook-ee/US // ˈrʊk i //UK // (ˈrʊkɪ) //

新秀,新手,菜鸟,新丁

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an athlete playing his or her first season as a member of a professional sports team: The rookie replaced the injured regular at first base.
    • : a raw recruit, as in the army or on a police force.
    • : a novice; tyro.

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Examples

  • The rookie has allowed three or more goals in seven of his nine starts.

  • It’s hard especially when you’re a rookie in your first year and you want to work out, want to improve and it can’t happen.

  • Patience is in order all around given the many challenges facing rookies during this unusual season, including their shortened post-draft acclimation.

  • To narrow the pool further, only seven first-round quarterbacks in that span have won a playoff game and none of them did it as a rookie.

  • Haskins started seven games as a rookie and showed improvement late in the year.

  • The Lion Air captain had left his rookie copilot to make the landing until he realized he was in trouble.

  • They castigated the captain, a 48-year-old Indonesian, and his rookie copilot, a 24-year-old Indian.

  • One of the rookie officers, Peter Liang, was walking with a flashlight in one hand and his gun in the other.

  • A 28-year-old gunned down in a dark, New York City hallway by a rookie cop who apparently made a fatal mistake.

  • Still, he was locked into his rookie contract, and had to ride out two more dysfunctional seasons of the show.

  • What's all that nonsense Ferrers gives us about the old days when he was such a rookie from civil life?

  • A Reservist is a dug-out, a recruit a rookie, and a veteran an old sweat.

  • No, admitted the rookie reluctantly, yo nevah tol me nuthin.

  • Some of the happier memories of my rookie days die with him.

  • McRae had taken him when he was a raw rookie and given him his chance with the Giants to show what he could do.