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A naturalist is someone who studies plants and animals, often outdoors, by watching, collecting, and writing down what they see — a notebook in a forest, birds by their calls, insects on a leaf. The word is natural + -ist (a person who does that kind of work).
A naturalist博物學家 is someone who studies plants and animals是研究植物和動物的人, often outdoors通常在戶外, by watching, collecting, and writing down what they see靠觀察、蒐集,還有把看到的東西寫下來 — a notebook in a forest在森林裡帶著筆記本, birds by their calls靠叫聲分辨鳥, insects on a leaf還有葉子上的昆蟲. The word這個字 is natural + -ist是natural加上-ist (a person who does that kind of work)(做那種工作的人)組成的
It is a piecewise of naturalista: the same pieces in another language’s shape. Older books also use naturalist for a writer or painter who follows ; that art use is less common now when we mean the outdoor scientist.
It它 is a piecewise doublet of naturalista是naturalista的部分同源詞: the same pieces in another language's shape同樣的組成部分,換成另一種語言的形狀. Older books also use naturalist for a writer or painter who follows naturalism比較舊的書也會用naturalist來指遵循naturalism(自然主義)的作家或畫家; that art use is less common now when we mean the outdoor scientist現在我們講戶外的科學家時,這種藝術上的用法比較少見了
A very easy trap: a is a . One little change in the spelling and the meaning is completely different.
A very easy trap一個很容易踩到的陷阱: a naturist is a nudistnaturist是裸體主義者. One little change in the spelling and the meaning is completely different拼法只差一點點,意思卻完全不同
原始詞典資料5 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。
naturalistnoun/ˈnæ.tʃə.ɹə.lɪst/
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obsoleteA natural philosopher; a scientist.
- It has also been asserted, by some naturalists, that men do not attain their full growth and strength till thirty; but that women arrive at maturity by twenty.
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human-sciencesphilosophysciencesA person who believes in or advocates the tenets of philosophical or methodological naturalism.
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An expert in natural history or the study of plants and animals.
- I will leave off all my childish fooleries and diversions, and set about studying with such a rage, that when you come back next year, you may find the tongue I have now in my mouth more forky than that of some serpents mentioned by Pliny the naturalist.
- The beauty and brilliancy of this insect are indescribable, and none but a naturalist can understand the intense excitement I experienced when I at length captured it.
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artartsA creative artist who attempts to faithfully represent nature; an adherent of artistic naturalism.
naturalistadj/ˈnæ.tʃə.ɹə.lɪst/
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Synonym of naturalistic.
- Trinity received “Birds of America” in 1900 as a gift from Dr. Gordon Russell, a physician and alumnus who was a collector of ornithological and naturalist art.
- Its author – Henry Handel Richardson was the nom de plume of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson – had indeed read, and on occasion translated, these great European writers and they provided the naturalist style and intellectual inquiry resonant in all her fiction. […] The honesty and authorial detachment that is so remarkable in her work – she is one of the least obtrusive, least judgmental of all the great naturalist writers – seems to come from a distance, almost as though the particularly acute insight of the adult writer could only be seen through the filter of childhood experience.
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。