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A greenhorn is someone who lacks experience of something — a new person who has not learned the ropes yet. The word is informal, a little old-fashioned or colourful, more American than British in feel today, and it can sound teasing. It is not always , but it can make a new person feel watched. Green here does not mean the colour of a shirt or of grass. In older English, green meant fresh, young, not yet ready — people said it of new wood, new cheese, new leather, even of wounds. A green horn was first a young animal's horn, or a horn still fresh; later, from the 1600s, people used it for a person who was still fresh at a job. You can be a greenhorn at work, at a sport, or in a new country. It is about lack of experience, not about being foolish by nature, and it has nothing to do with real horns on a head.
新手、生手、菜鳥(帶點調侃;不是真的有角,也不是衣服是綠色)
組成From older English grene horn. Green here means young and fresh, the way new plants are, not the colour of the person. Horn comes from animals; using it for people is a later jump.
同家族的字
- greenthe older sense young, not yet ready, as in a green beginner
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。
Greenhornname
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A census-designated place in Plumas County, California, United States.
greenhornnoun/ˈɡɹiːnˌhɔːɹn/
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An inexperienced person; a novice, beginner, or newcomer.
- The powers of the Canadian voyageurs and hunters in the consumption of meat strike the greenhorn with wonder and astonishment; and are only equalled by the gastronomical capabilities exhibited by Indian dogs, both following the same plan in their epicurean gorgings.
- All you greenhorns who wanted to see Covenant up close...this is gonna be your lucky day.
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offensiveslurA Portuguese person.
- She lives in New Bedford, and her dad's not around much and her mum calls her boyfriend a Portagee, a fuckin' greenhorn,
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。