uninitiated

英 [ˌʌnɪˈnɪʃieɪtɪd]

美 [ˌʌnɪˈnɪʃieɪtɪd]

n.  无专门知识(或经验)的人; 门外汉; 外行
adj.  外行的，缺少经验的

GRE

BNC.19925 / COCA.20858

牛津词典

noun

• 无专门知识（或经验）的人；门外汉；外行
  people who have no special knowledge or experience of sth
  1. To the uninitiated the system seems too complicated.
     对外行而言，这个系统似乎过于复杂。

柯林斯词典

• N-PLURAL 缺乏某种特定知识（或经验）的人；不熟悉某种特定情况的人
  You can refer to people who have no knowledge or experience of a particular subject or activity asthe uninitiated.
  1. For the uninitiated, Western Swing is a fusion of jazz, rhythm & blues, rock & roll and country music...
     对于外行人来说，西部摇摆是爵士乐、节奏布鲁斯、摇滚乐和乡村音乐的融合。
  2. Its appeal may not be immediately obvious to the uninitiated.
     不熟悉的人很难一下子体会到它的魅力。
  3. Uninitiatedis also an adjective.
     
  4. For those uninitiated in scientific ocean drilling, the previous record was a little over 4 km...
     对于那些不熟悉科学大洋钻探的人来说，之前的纪录是4千米多一点。
  5. This may not be visible to the uninitiated eye, but the experienced quarryman sees it.
     也许外行人看不出来，但是逃不过有经验的采石工人的眼睛。

英英释义

adj

• not initiated
  1. it seemed a bizarre ceremony to uninitiated western eyes
  2. he took part in the experiment as a naive subject
  Synonym:uninitiatenaive

双语例句

• The contempt of Indian science for the uninitiated has resulted in modes of expression unequalled for obscurity and difficulty;
  这方面的行家因为轻视印度学问而在表述方式上流于不应有的晦涩和艰深。
• The text and photographs should, together, present the uninitiated with an understandable, engaging,'picture'of your subject, but the writing and the photos should each stand on their own.
  你的文字与摄影必须能共同表现出一幅有关你的主题中，容易理解的且具有吸引力的「图像」。不过你写作的部分与相片必须各自表现出不同的重点。
• To the uninitiated, economics has always been a dismal science.
  对门外汉来说，经济学永远是种沉闷无趣的科学。
• To the uninitiated spectator, Rugby can look just like a lot of overweight men wrestling in mud.
  对外行的观众来说，橄榄球看上去像是许多大个子男人在泥地里摔跤。
• Pinterest, for the uninitiated, is a deceptively simple-sounding, insanely addictive social media site that lets users collect and share images on digital pinboards.
  也许有人是初次听说Pinterest，这是个表面看似简单，却能让人疯狂上瘾的社交媒体网站，用户可在网站的数字公告栏上收集、共享图片。
• For the uninitiated this is a particularly good time to go.
  对于外行人而言，这是一个领受艺术的绝好机会。
• Its appeal may not be immediately obvious to the uninitiated.
  不熟悉的人很难一下子体会到它的魅力。
• For the uninitiated ( or those over 30), "snaps" are instant messages/ photos that self-destruct ten seconds or less after being viewed.
  或许你还不知道Snapchat（30岁以上的读者恐怕都不太知道它），“快照”是在被查看后的10秒钟内自动销毁的即时消息或照片。
• One week I drive to her Newport Beach neighborhood and we walk "the island"& Balboa Island, for the uninitiated.
  有一周，我驾车到她居住的纽波特海岸附近，我们便开始在Balboa岛上散步。
• To the uninitiated, the words should rhyme, but the former is pronounced/ mun/ ( according to the International Pronunciation Alphabet), while the latter is spoken/ good/.
  对外行人而言，这两个单词似乎应该是押韵的，但是前者的读音是/mun/（根据InternationalPronunciationAlphabet），而后者的读音是/good/。