neophyte
neophyte 英 [ˈni:əfaɪt] 美 [ˈniəˌfaɪt]
n. 新信徒；新入教者；初学者
名词复数:neophytes
- A neophyte is someone who's brand new at something. You're a neophyte the first time you pick up a guitar and start learning to play.
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- n. 新信徒；新入教者；初学者
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1. Alarmingly, at least for a container-ship neophyte like myself, the world’s biggest ship seems to have a crew of only 19.
令人担忧的是，至少像我这样的集装箱船的新手，全球最大的船似乎只有19个船员。
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2. He thus could show how travels in the American West matured the narrator from a credulous, narrow-minded neophyte into a wiser, more flexible, and much more observant man of the world.
他借此表明，游历美国西部的过程如何使叙事人逐步成熟，从没有主见、观念狭隘的青涩年华走向更有智慧、更灵活、观察更敏锐的老成世故。
- neophyte (n.) "new convert," 1550s, from Church Latin neophytus, from Greek neophytos "a new convert," noun use of adjective meaning "newly initiated, newly converted," literally "newly planted," from neos "new" (see new) + phytos "grown; planted," verbal adjective of phyein "to bring forth, make grow," from PIE root *bheue- "to be, exist, grow." Church sense is from I Timothy iii.6. Rare before 19c. General sense of "one who is new to any subject" is first recorded 1590s.
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