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A dilettante is someone who plays at a subject or an art but does not go deep. They may like it, talk about it, even make things — but they skip the long, careful work. In today’s English the word usually stings a little: you are saying the person is not serious. Though actually, it did not start cold. It came in from Italian as “someone who does it for delight” — closer to amateur in the old, warmer sense. That softer meaning still peeks out in careful writing, but if you call a a dilettante, they will hear “dabbler.” It is a fancy, educated word, more at home in reviews and essays than in the night market. Everyday English just says they are not serious, or they only play at it.
玩票的人；淺嚐輒止的人。帶一點不好聽，不是中性的「業餘愛好者」。
組成From Italian dilettante, the “-ing” form of dilettare (“to delight”), from Latin dēlectāre (“to delight”). The old idea is “one who does it for the joy.”
同家族的字
- delightsame Latin dēlectāre, “to delight”
- delectablefrom the same Latin dēlectāre
原始詞典資料3 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。
dilettantenoun/dɪlɪˈtænti/
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An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.
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derogatoryA person with a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge.
- A comment like "The author is a self-important dilettante." is really nothing more than a pretentious version of "u r a fag."
- “Call me Zack Ransom.” “And I'm Gilbert Manhandle, literary dilettante with a gambling addiction.” “Nobody's going to remember that. You can be Zandy Billups.” “Fine. But I'm still a gambling addict.”
dilettanteadj/dɪlɪˈtænti/
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Pertaining to or like a dilettante.
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。