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单词 dilettante
释义
dilettante
noun[C]
usuallydisapproving
uk
/ˌdɪl.əˈtæn.ti/us/ˈdɪl.əˌtɑːnt/
pluraldilettantiuk/ˌdɪl.əˈtæn.ti/us/ˌdɪl.əˈtæn.ti/dilettantes
apersonwho is orseemsto beinterestedin asubject, but whoseunderstandingof it is not verydeeporserious:
一知半解者；半吊子；业余爱好者
He's abitof a dilettante asfaraswineisconcerned.就对酒的研究而言，他只是有点爱好而已。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Inexperienced people and lack of experience
  • apprentice
  • beginner
  • blind
  • freshman
  • functional illiterate
  • greenhorn
  • lightweight
  • muggle
  • naïf
  • neophyte
  • newcomer
  • nonspecialist
  • not know the meaning of the wordidiom
  • novice
  • probationer
  • rookie
  • the blind leading the blindidiom
  • upstart
  • virgin
  • virginity
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(Definition ofdilettantefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

dilettante| American Dictionary

dilettante
noun[C]
usuallydisapproving
us
/ˈdɪl·ɪˌtɑnt,-ˌtænt/
apersonwho is orseemsto beinterestedin asubject, but who is notinvolvedwith it in aseriousanddeterminedway:
Toseriousartists, he wasmerelya dilettante.
(Definition ofdilettantefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdilettante

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Is he a pretentious postmoderndilettantebarely concealing his limitations behind mannered overwrought wordplay and the needless over-ornamentation of derivative rock songs and genre pastiches?
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This disc reveals a fine composer, not adilettantehiding behind an unusual tuning.
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What thedilettantethink - that knowledge of any intellectual matter is a cause for intellectual pleasure - is false.
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There is a sense that such practitioners are considered somewhatdilettanteto this avowedly 'working-class theologian'.
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He pursued 'adilettanteinterest' in the matter for some time but a definite opportunity arose in 1896.
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Here, his interventions were frequent - at daily conferences - and direct, though hisdilettante, arbitrary and intransigent interference was often disastrously counter-productive.
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Marsh was not a musician by profession but trained as a lawyer and for his entire life considered himself no more than a musicaldilettante.
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In other words, the intellectual exclusivity and associated creativity which underpinned the world of the public intellectual has been paradoxically replaced by adilettanteand moribund intellectual culture.
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Shapin (1974, 100) reported that in 1860 it was argued that the society should not exclude thedilettanteor amateur.
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Issawi is on one level an economist; on another, he is a historian; and on a third, he is adilettantein the true sense of the word.
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I will come later to the needs of thedilettante.
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We cannot make do with anydilettantehandling of problems of that nature.
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They have adilettanteapproach to the realites of the countryside and of wildlife.
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Let us face the fact that most students in universities do not intend when they leave them to lead somedilettanteexistence.
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We must say 'no' to the passive anddilettanteattitude of governments that are making life easy for the pirates.
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