| 词汇 | dilettante |
| 释义 | dilettante noun[ C ] usually disapprovinguk /ˌdɪl.əˈtæn.ti/ us /ˈdɪl.əˌtɑːnt/pluraldilettantiuk /ˌdɪl.əˈtæn.ti/ us /ˌdɪl.əˈtæn.ti/dilettantes a person who is or seems to be interested in a subject, but whose understanding of it is not very deep or serious: 一知半解者;半吊子;业余爱好者 He's a bit of a dilettante as far as wine is concerned.就对酒的研究而言，他只是有点爱好而已。 Inexperienced people and lack of experience apprentice beginner freshman functional illiterate greenhorn lightweight muggle naïf neophyte new addition non-philosopher nonspecialist not know the meaning of the wordidiom novice probationer the blind leading the blindidiom uninitiated virgin virgin territoryidiom virginity dilettante | American Dictionarydilettante noun[ C ] usually disapprovingus/ˈdɪl·ɪˌtɑnt, -ˌtænt/ a person who is or seems to be interested in a subject, but who is not involved with it in a serious and determined way: To serious artists, he was merely a dilettante. Examples of dilettantedilettante Is he a pretentious postmodern dilettante barely concealing his limitations behind mannered overwrought wordplay and the needless over-ornamentation of derivative rock songs and genre pastiches? This disc reveals a fine composer, not a dilettante hiding behind an unusual tuning. What the dilettante think - that knowledge of any intellectual matter is a cause for intellectual pleasure - is false. There is a sense that such practitioners are considered somewhat dilettante to this avowedly 'working-class theologian'. He pursued 'a dilettante interest' in the matter for some time but a definite opportunity arose in 1896. Here, his interventions were frequent - at daily conferences - and direct, though his dilettante, arbitrary and intransigent interference was often disastrously counter-productive. Marsh was not a musician by profession but trained as a lawyer and for his entire life considered himself no more than a musical dilettante. In other words, the intellectual exclusivity and associated creativity which underpinned the world of the public intellectual has been paradoxically replaced by a dilettante and moribund intellectual culture. Shapin (1974, 100) reported that in 1860 it was argued that the society should not exclude the dilettante or amateur. Issawi is on one level an economist; on another, he is a historian; and on a third, he is a dilettante in the true sense of the word. I will come later to the needs of the dilettante. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We cannot make do with any dilettante handling of problems of that nature. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have a dilettante approach to the realites of the countryside and of wildlife. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let us face the fact that most students in universities do not intend when they leave them to lead some dilettante existence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We must say 'no' to the passive and dilettante attitude of governments that are making life easy for the pirates. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English 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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