layman

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n. 俗人, 门外汉, 凡人 [医] 外行, 业外人

发音

US /ˈleɪmən/

词形变化

laymen 复数 laymen

教材释义与例句

名词

外行；门外汉；俗人；一般信徒

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Layperson, someone who is not an ordained cleric or member of the clergy.

    俗家

    平信徒

  2. 2.

    Someone who is not a professional in a given field.

    引申义

    Carmen is not a professional anthropologist, but strictly a layman.

    Let me explain it to you [[in layman's terms|in layman's terms]].

  3. 3.

    A common person.

  4. 4.

    A person who is untrained or lacks knowledge of a subject.

  5. 5.

    Lay-sister or lay-brother, person received into a convent of monks, following the vows, but not being member of the order.

词汇关系

名词

反义词 1

clergyman

上位词 3

man secular layperson

词源

From Middle English layman, lay man, equivalent to lay (“non-clergy”) + man. Cognate with Old Frisian lēkmann, lēkmonn (“layman”), obsolete Dutch leekeman (“layman”), Old High German leihman (“layman”), Danish lægmand (“layman”), Swedish lekman (“layman”), Norwegian lekmann (“layman”), Icelandic leikmaður (“layman”).

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