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 amateur ['æmə`tʃʊr]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 业余爱好者, 外行, 爱好者

[电] 业余家


  1. You are a professional, but I am an amateur.
    你是专职的,我是业余的。
  2. He is an amateur photographer.
    他是个业余摄影爱好者。
  3. He is an amateur painter.
    他是一个业余画家。


amateur
[ noun ]
  1. someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime

  2. <noun.person>
  3. an athlete who does not play for pay

  4. <noun.person>
[ adj ]
  1. engaged in as a pastime

  2. <adj.all>
    an amateur painter
    gained valuable experience in amateur theatricals
    recreational golfers
    reading matter that is both recreational and mentally stimulating
    unpaid extras in the documentary
  3. lacking professional skill or expertise

  4. <adj.all>
    a very amateurish job
    inexpert but conscientious efforts
    an unskilled painting


Amateur \Am`a*teur"\, n. [F., fr. L. amator lover, fr. amare to
love.]
A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science
as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or
art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it
professionally.

  1. "There is now an immense hole in amateur surfing on the West Coast because he was really the crankshaft of organized surfing on the West Coast," said Surfer magazine publisher Steve Pezman. "The sport will miss him.
  2. BBC1's tabloid telly series 999 (9.30) which shows films or reconstructions of heroic rescues today screens an amateur video record of the boy who fell into the gorilla pit at London Zoo.
  3. The 50-year-old Sloan says his troupe dances a different style than amateur square dance clubs around the country.
  4. The army, which rose against Ceausescu on Friday, was joined by amateur revolutionaries suddenly at war after decades of repression.
  5. The occasion was The New York Wine Experience, a weekend symposium attended by members of the wine industry, the press and amateur wine enthusiasts.
  6. "I don't suppose it will ever heal," said amateur historian Jack Foster.
  7. Since 1980 as a vice president he was unstinting with his time and encouragement for amateur musicians and never once refused our requests for help.
  8. The roots of some new words are fairly clear _ "brain bucket" for a helmet with a face mask, and "shamateur" for an athlete who is paid for playing but retains amateur status.
  9. The referee stopped that one after one knockdown because it was a clean head blow, and amateur rules say one of those is enough.
  10. He now lives in the central New Jersey community of Lakehurst and makes occasional appearances to generate support for amateur athletics.
  11. Furthermore, he described his own company as an 'amateur' in the gold business when compared with other, more substantial, gold producers. Mr Yearly says: 'I certainly would not deprecate any of the mineral properties mentioned in the article.
  12. In photography, amateur Ron Olshwanger won for a spot news picture in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of a firefighter giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a child pulled from a burning building.
  13. So far he has won Pounds 1m and counting. Then there's Jay Sigel, a name that will be familiar to those who follow amateur golf.
  14. The Toulouse club helped relocate N'Tmack's brother and mother when he decided to join them. Despite its strict codes and amateur status, the attraction of the game is strengthened by the social and economic opportunities it provides.
  15. We don't want librarians to become amateur sleuths." Some of the new items on the committee list are: _"Revelations by Lt.
  16. "It had a heck of a view of the palace," says Peter Bartholomew, a U.S. businessman and amateur local historian.
  17. Perhaps the hideous muddle of the Festival Hall itself - a shopping mall in Hades, with its restaurants and bars and stalls and side-shows of amateur dancing and exhibitions of the unlovely and trumpery - has percolated onto the stage.
  18. In firefights, the dictator's die-hard killers held off ill-trained soldiers and amateur revolutionaries, often amid a tragicomedy of errors.
  19. Payload specialist Ron Parise, a licensed ham radio operator, also will contact amateur radio stations around the world.
  20. Revision of the rules by the International Skating Union allows professionals such as Torvill and Dean, Witt and US male gold medallist Brian Boitano to bid once more for glory at an 'amateur' level.
  21. Meehan said boa constrictors are very popular among amateur herpetologists because of their docile temperament and because they are increasingly difficult to obtain.
  22. Several new roses will be launched including the Thomas Barton Rose from French breeder Alain Meilland. There will also be a competition to decide the best scented rose and the national competitions for both amateur rose growers and floral artists.
  23. Andrew, an avid amateur photographer, made a private visit to Carrickfergus last October to take pictures of a 12th-century castle.
  24. In the 1950s, the two Dutch officials say, amateur sports clubs in soccer-mad Holland introduced baseball so they wouldn't have to close their social centers in the summer after soccer season ended.
  25. Jake is only an amateur bank robber.
  26. I was just sorry we didn't have Leon Ames as a father." He first wanted to act, appearing in amateur productions of "Uncle Vanya," "The Cherry Orchard" and many other plays.
  27. The planned surplus of roughly Dollars 132m is to be donated for the support of amateur athletics. The ACOG's plan for bringing in corporate sponsors seems a bit risky.
  28. Director Mark Bacus disagreed, and said he tried unsuccessfully to cast hearing-impaired actors for the Piasaw Players' amateur production.
  29. White said Monday the new desktop publishing system is the commercial version of the photo CD system announced in September. In that, amateur photographers would have their film developed and the images put on CDs by professional photo finishers.
  30. Comet Machholz 1988j "is a couple hundred times fainter than the North Star," Marsden said. "It's not going to be a bright comet," and is likely to be seen only by advanced amateur astronomers using telescopes.
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