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am·a·teur AHD[ămʹə-tûr', -tər, -ə-ch‹r', -chər, -ty‹r'] D.J.[ˈæməˌtɜː, -tə, -əˌtʃʊə, -tʃə, -ˌtjʊə]K.K.[ˈæməˌtɝ, -tɚ, -əˌtʃʊr, -tʃɚ, -ˌtjʊr]n.（名词）- Abbr. a.,A.A person who engages in an art, a science, a study, or an athletic activity as a pastime rather than as a profession.缩写 a.,A.业余爱好者：把艺术、科学、研究或体育运动作为消遣而不是作为职业的人
- Abbr. a.,A.Sports An athlete who has never participated in competition for money.缩写 a.,A.【体育运动】 业余运动员：从不参加赢利性竞赛的运动员
- One lacking the skill of a professional, as in an art.外行：缺乏职业技术的人，如在一门艺术中
adj.（形容词）- Abbr. a.,A.Of, relating to, or performed by an amateur.缩写 a.,A.业余爱好者的：业余爱好者的，与其相关或由其制作的
- Abbr. a.,A.Made up of amateurs.缩写 a.,A.票友的：由业余爱好者组成的
- Not professional; unskillful.外行的；技术不佳的
- French 法语
- from Latin amātor [lover] 源自 拉丁语 amātor [爱好者]
- from amāre [to love] 源自 amāre [热爱]
amʹateurism n.（名词）amateur, dabbler, dilettante, tyro- The central meaning shared by these nouns is "one engaging in a pursuit but lacking professional skill": 这些名词所共有的意思是“有所追求但缺乏职业技巧的人”： a musician who is a gifted amateur, not a professional;一个有天赋的业余音乐家，而非专业音乐家的；a dabbler in the graphic arts;平面造型艺术的涉猎者；a sculptor but a mere dilettante;只是个业余爱好者的雕刻师；a tyro in the art of writing poetry. professional 诗歌创作艺术的初学者 professional
注释- When Mrs. T.W. Atkinson remarked in her 1863Recollections of the Tartar Steppes and their Inhabitants, "I am no amateur of these melons,” she usedamateur in a sense unfamiliar to us. That sense, "a lover, an admirer,” is, however, clearly descended from the senses of the word's ultimate Latin source,amātor, "lover, devoted friend, devotee, enthusiastic pursuer of an objective,” and from its immediate Latin-derived French source,amateur, with a similar range of meanings. First recorded in English in 1784 with the sense in which Mrs. Atkinson used it,amateur is found in 1786 with a meaning more familiar to us, "a person who engages in an art, for example, as a pastime rather than as a profession,” a sense that had already developed in French.Given the limitations of doing something as an amateur,it is not surprising that the word is soon after recorded in the disparaging sensewe still use to refer to someone who lacks professional skill or ease in performance.当T.W.阿特金森夫人在她1863年出版的塔塔·史坦普和其居民回忆录， 中提到“我并不喜欢这些瓜果”时， 她使用的amateur 是我们所不熟悉的一个意思。 可是这种“爱好者，喜爱者，”的意思显然有其正宗拉丁语来源，amator, 意思是“爱人，忠实的朋友，奉献者，对某目标热情的追求者”， 还有由拉丁语直接派生出的法语来源，amateur, 具有相似的意思。 1784年记录在英语文字中出现的这个词正是阿特金森夫人使用的意思，1786年出现的amateur 有我们更为熟悉的意思， “如一个从事艺术，把它作为一项消遣，而不是一个职业的人，”法语的词早已发展了这种意思。如果把意思限定为从事业余活动的人，这个词被记录下来后不久就有了贬义含意，也就不足为奇了，我们用它来指在表演中缺乏专业技巧或缺乏得心应手的感觉
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