| 正面 | 7782.amateur 英 ['æmətə; -tʃə; -tjʊə; ,æmə'tɜː]美 [ˈæmətər]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1、hetero- + sex + -ual.n. 爱好者；业余爱好者；外行adj. 业余的；外行的 例句： 1. Angela says she longs to join an amateur dramatics class.安杰拉说她渴望参加业余戏剧班。 amateur 业余爱好者词根am, 爱，原指爱好，后带有贬义。 amateuramateur: [18] Etymologically, an amateur is simply a ‘lover’. That is what its ultimate Latin ancestor amator meant, and indeed in English it still denoted ‘someone who loves or is fond of something’ until well into the 19th century (‘am no amateur of these melons’, Mrs Atkinson, Tartar Steppes 1863). However, its immediate source, French amateur, had already evolved the subsidiary sense ‘one who does something solely for the enjoyment, not for payment’, and that is now its only English meaning.amateur (n.)1784, "one who has a taste for (something)," from French amateur "lover of," from Latin amatorem (nominative amator) "lover," agent noun from amatus, past participle of amare "to love" (see Amy). Meaning "dabbler" (as opposed to professional) is from 1786. As an adjective, by 1838." |