Amateur

(noun.) someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime.

(noun.) an athlete who does not play for pay.

(adj.) engaged in as a pastime; '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' .

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• American youths to-day are given, if of a mechanical turn of mind, to amateur telegraphy or telephony, but seldom, if ever, have to make any part of the system constructed. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The owner of the house, Mr. Tonkin, was an old friend of the Davy family, and very fond of Humphrey, but the amateur experiments were almost too much for him. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• It seems that the musket had been run over by a handcar, which slightly bent the long barrel, but not sufficiently for an amateur like Fox to notice. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I named Sunday at two o'clock, and immediately handed over his note to Mr. Livius, the amateur play-writer, French horn-blower, lady-killer, &c. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Some engineers have been tempted to call him a lucky amateur, a talented artist who happened to become interested in new methods of navigation. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The reasoning is perilously like that of the gifted lady amateur who expects to achieve greatness by imitating the paint box and palette, oils and canvases of an artist. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• As in the Civil War the private cit izen had held his own with the professional soldier, so here the contribution of the amateur to the discussion was not to be despised. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• It was the queerest of rooms, fitted and furnished more like a luxurious amateur tap-room than anything else within the ken of Silas Wegg. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The inventor has become a scientist and a mechanic, and no longer an amateur discoverer. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• It was only by trying begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to base my articles. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Only the pathetic amateur deludes himself into thinking that, if he presents the major and minor premise, the voter will automatically draw the conclusion on election day. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Now Crawley, from being only a brilliant amateur, had grown to be a consummate master of billiards. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Mr. Rochester is an amateur of the decided and eccentric: Grace is eccentric at least. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Without doubt these amateur sappers had been working hard, for the trench was dug, the dynamite cartridges placed therein, and the hole filled up. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• One must have one's workshop, otherwise one never ceases to be an amateur. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Guitar and mandolin are agreeable instruments for amateurs, but are never used in orchestral music. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Of course there were amateurs even in those early photographic days, but they were few and far between. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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