橘子朗文词典

dilettante

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音标发音

  • 英式音标 [,dɪlɪ'tænteɪ; -tɪ]
  • 美式音标 [ˈdɪlɪˌtɑnt, ˌdɪlɪˈtɑnt, -ˈtɑnti, -ˈtænt, -ˈtænti]
  • 国际音标 [,dili'tænti, 'dilitɑ:nt]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • n. 业余爱好者；一知半解者
  • adj. 浅薄的；业余艺术爱好的
  • vi. （在艺术、科学等方面）浅尝辄止

词根记忆

  • di + let(=delect引诱) + tante→受到了诱惑→业余爱好者
  • dilet(=delect，愉快) + tante→为了找乐而做事的人→爱好者

同根派生

  • adj性质的同根词
    dilettantish：对艺术、科学等一知半解的；半瓶醋似的；浅薄的；业余爱好的。

英汉例句

    双语例句

  • Perhaps you’d be more serious about this job if you weren’t such a dilettante.
    约翰说，“如果你不是个业余爱好者，也许对此工作你会更认真些。
  • Much of Ms Trott’s personal blog, VoxTrott, is devoted to images of her beloved dog Maddy, while Mr Trott, a dilettante cook, likes to post “disgusting pictures of good food” on his blog.
    Trott女士个人博客VoxTrott中有许多其爱犬Maddy的照片，而对厨艺半懂不懂的Trott先生则喜欢在他的博客中贴一些“令人作呕的美食图片”。
  • Much of Ms Trott's personal blog, VoxTrott, is devoted to images of her beloved dog Maddy, while Mr Trott, a dilettante[5] cook, likes to post "disgusting pictures of good food" on his blog.
    Trott女士个人博客VoxTrott中有许多其爱犬Maddy的照片，而对厨艺半懂不懂的Trott先生则喜欢在他的博客中贴一些"令人作呕的美食图片"。

    • 权威例句

  • Now this obscure writer's book has been transformed into a brilliant movie by Julian Schnabel, the artist and cinematic dilettante.
    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Richard Cohen Reminds the Left Why Castro Must Go
  • ' I've worked very hard to get away from the impression that I'm some sort of dilettante riding on my inheritance.
    FORBES: Field of Dreams
  • He inherited more of his temperament from his grandfather, the driving, autocratic Emperor Meiji, than from his sickly, dilettante father, Emperor Taisho.
    ECONOMIST: A god dethroned

词组短语

    短语

  • La Dilettante 一个随心所欲的女人
  • Elf Dilettante 半熟精灵
  • dilettante e 半瓶醋;业余的艺术爱好者
  • Dilettante Fruit Medley 水果巧克力
  • Dilettante 's notebook 书乡漫录

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • a person who is or seems to be interested in a subject, but whose understanding of it is not very deep or serious

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • You can use dilettante to talk about someone who seems interested in a subject, especially in art, but who does not really know very much about it.