| 词汇 | dabbler |
| 释义 | dabbler noun[ C ] uk /ˈdæb.lər/ us /ˈdæb.lɚ/ someone who takes a slight and not very serious interest in a subject, or tries a particular activity for a short period: 业余爱好者|半吊子 dabbler inThey are dabblers in African music rather than experts.他们是非洲音乐的业余爱好者，而不是专家。 I'm not a real painter - just a dabbler.我不是真正的画家，只是个业余爱好者而已。 See dabble While he lacks serious talent in any fighting discipline, he's more than just a dabbler. The New Statesman dismissed him as a dabbler in politics without 'firm views'. In the art world she was considered a mediocre dabbler. How could he warn his kids about drugs when he himself was a dabbler? Trying and making an effort A game all out assault attempt attempted commitment go after someone go all outidiom go down swinging/fightingidiom go for itidiom go for someone nose shoot for the moonidiom shoot the worksidiom smarten (someone/something) up smarten up your actidiom spare square the circleidiom stretch struggle Examples of dabblerdabbler For the novice junkie - or 'dabbler', in jail jargon - this ritual quickly becomes a routine they cannot do without. By the middle of the twentieth century, legislative dabblers had been edged out by a more experienced mode of legislator. The days of paying for poor-quality legal services and subsidising dabblers and jacks-of-all-trades are over. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The problems involved are too complex and important to be left to the dabblers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This constantly expanding capacity is just the sort of trap into which inexperienced dabblers in international trade are liable to fall, owing to a temporary and clamant demand. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it not a fact that if present trends continue we shall have a country which is booming for the bond-dabblers and means bankruptcy for the industrialists? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The lake supports only a small number of breeding and moulting dabblers and divers. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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