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Callow means young and without experience, and the speaker is not being kind about it. A callow youth, a callow intern: you are saying they are still naive, maybe a bit sure of themselves, and they have not earned their place yet.
Callow means young and without experienceCallow的意思是年輕又沒有經驗, and the speaker is not being kind about it而且說話的人並不是善意地在講這件事。A callow youth, a callow intern像callow youth、callow intern: you are saying they are still naive你的意思是他們還很天真, maybe a bit sure of themselves也許還有點自以為是, and they have not earned their place yet而且他們還沒有真正憑本事贏得自己的位置。
It is a , slightly old-fashioned word; you meet it in writing and sharp remarks more than in the corridor.
It is a bookish, slightly old-fashioned word這是個書卷氣、有點老派的字; you meet it in writing and sharp remarks你比較會在文章和犀利的評論裡遇到它 more than in the corridor而不是在走廊上聽到。
It is not simply young. A young doctor can be skilled; a callow one is young and still green, and you are at that.
It is not simply young它不只是單純的『年輕』。A young doctor can be skilled一個年輕的醫生可以很有本事; a callow one is young and still green但一個callow的醫生是年輕又還嫩, and you are frowning at that而你對這一點是皺著眉頭的。
Though actually, the word first meant bald, then young birds with no feathers yet, and from there it moved to people who have not grown their feathers. The bald meaning is gone in everyday English.
Though actually不過其實, the word first meant bald這個字原本的意思是『禿的』, then young birds with no feathers yet後來指還沒長羽毛的幼鳥, and from there it moved to people who have not grown their feathers再從那裡延伸到還沒『長出羽毛』的人身上。The bald meaning is gone in everyday English禿頭那個意思在現代日常英文裡已經消失了。
組成From Old English calu / caluw, bald, through Middle English calwe. Bald became unfeathered (young birds), then inexperienced (young people). Scholars do not all agree whether Latin calvus, bald, is a true relative or only looks similar — treat that link as unsure.
原始詞典資料17 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Callowname
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A surname.
callowadj詞源 1/ˈkæləʊ/
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Immature, inexperienced, or naive.
- Through both the volumes, there is not a single original sentiment, description, or incident, and yet a callow reader may peruse it without perceiving any thing is wanting.
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Having no hair; bald, bare, hairless.
- Then there was a little Chinese in full azure costume, with long gesticulating arms, and large callow head, who pertinaciously threw in his squeaky plea for Confucius in the most unsyntactical French.
- There was a sense abroad as he spoke that the world was rocking together to great music, and this callow-headed professor by the table had caught a note of it.
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businessconstructionmanufacturingOf a brick: unburnt.
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biologynatural-sciencesornithologyOf a young bird, or (part of) its body: having not developed feathers yet; featherless, unfledged; hence, of other animals or their bodies: having no fur or hair; furless, hairless, unfurred.
- […] Calais and Zetes had no beard upon their chin, / They both were callow. But aſſone as haire did once begin / In likeneſſe of a yellow Downe upon their cheekes to ſprout, / Then (euen as comes to paſſe in Birdes) the feathers budded out / Togither on their pinyons too, and ſpreaded round about / On both their ſides.
- [T]hey [who] be ſomevvhat ſlovv of apprehenſion and idle vvithall, are verie troubleſome unto their teachers, and importune them overmuch: […] reſembling herein young callovv birds vvhich are not yet fethered and fledg'd, but alvvaies gaping tovvard the bill of the damme, and ſo by their good vvils vvould have nothing given them, but that vvhich hath beene chevved and prepared already.
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biologynatural-sciencesornithologyOf a young bird, or (part of) its body: having not developed feathers yet; featherless, unfledged; hence, of other animals or their bodies: having no fur or hair; furless, hairless, unfurred.
- Those three young men are particularly callow youths.
- Try to remember the kind of September / When you were a tender and callow fellow / Try to remember and if you remember / Then follow
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biologynatural-scienceszoologyIn the life cycle of an animal: newly born or hatched; juvenile.
- a callow bee
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biologyentomologynatural-sciencesSynonym of teneral (“of certain insects or other arthropods such as spiders: lacking colour or firmness just after ecdysis (“shedding of the exoskeleton”)”).
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obsoleteOf land: having no vegetation; bare.
- [T]heſe Lands are not ſvvardy enough to bear clean tillage, nor callovv or light enough to lie to get ſvvard, […]
callownoun詞源 1/ˈkæləʊ/
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biologyentomologynatural-sciencesSynonym of teneral (“an insect or other arthropod such as a spider which has just undergone ecdysis (“shedding of the exoskeleton”) and so lacks colour or firmness”).
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geographygeologynatural-sciencesAn alluvial flat.
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archaicregionalbusinessminingThe upper layer of rubble in a quarry which has to be removed to reach the material to be mined.
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obsoletebiologynatural-sciencesornithologyA young bird which has not developed feathers yet; a nestling.
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obsoletebiologynatural-sciencesornithologyA young bird which has not developed feathers yet; a nestling.
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obsoleteSynonym of topsoil (“upper layer of soil”).
callowadj詞源 2/ˈkæləʊ/
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Of land: low-lying and near a river, and thus regularly submerged.
- The Bogs that extend along the western part of this District do not lie close to the Shannon, as those on the east side do along the banks of the Inny; they are separated from the river by a long tract of high, dry, callow land, subject, immediately near the river, to being overflowed in winter, but affording meadow, pasture, and in some places good arable land.
callownoun詞源 2/ˈkæləʊ/
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A low-lying meadow near a river which is regularly submerged.
- Near-synonyms: bog, fen, marsh, swamp, mire, moor, slough
- The crops of hay carried off by the floods, or rendered utterly valueless, were not the only losses sustained by the landholders. The extensive callows upon which they grazed their cattle during the autumn and early winter, were unavailable this season.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。