uninitiated

英语

词源

un- +‎ initiated

发音

(英國) 國際音標^(幫助): /ʌnɪnˈɪʃi.eɪtɪd/

形容词

uninitiated (無比較級)

外行的
His jargon-filled talk was gibberish to the uninitiated, but clear and concise to practitioners. ― 他的谈话充满了专业术语，对门外汉来说听着莫名其妙，但对从业者来说清晰而简练。
- 1863, Sir William Smith 編, A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising its Antiquities, Biography, Geography and Natural History‎^[1], Volume III. Red Sea-Zuzims, Little, Brown, and Co, Versions, Ancient (Targum)，第 1653-1654 頁s:
  Even in the midst of the full swing of fancy, swayed to and fro by the many currants of thought that arise out of a single word, snatches of the verse from which the flight was taken will suddenly appear on the surface like a refrain or a keynote, showing that in reality there is a connexion, though hidden to the uninitiated.
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- 1914, William Halse Rivers Rivers, The History of Melanesian Society‎^[2], 第 2, Part 1 卷, Adegi Graphics, 出版於 2001, →ISBN, Chapter XXXIII. Religion and Magic，第 411 頁:
  To the uninitiated, the belief not merely in the influence of the dead, but in their actual presence during secret rites is, or has until lately been, very real, and in so far as the uninitiated are brought into relation with the societies will possess a religious character.
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- 1962年1月, “Tape recorders: A quick guide for the uninitiated”, 出自 Herbet L. Brown Jr 編, Changing Times: The Kiplinger Magazine‎^[3], 第 16 卷, 第 1 期, Kiplinger Washington Editors, →ISSN，第 13 頁:
  A quick guide for the uninitiated
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- 2008, David E. Johnson, Anthropology's Wake: Attending to the End of Culture‎^[4], Fordham University Press, →ISBN, Ex-Cited Dialogue，第 107 頁:
  Although the priests are the initiated, they remain ignorant and incapable of instructing the uninitiated in the proper method of painting the temples.
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