rookie

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n. 新手

发音

其它 /ˈɹʊki/

词形变化

rookies 复数 rookies rookied rookies 三单 rookying rookying 现在分词 rookied 过去式 rookied 过去分词 rookier 比较级 rookier rookiest rookiest 最高级

教材释义与例句

名词

新手

名词

新人

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An inexperienced recruit, especially in the police or armed forces.

    菜鸟

  2. 2.

    A novice.

  3. 3.

    An athlete either new to the sport or to a team or in his/her first year of professional competition, especially said of baseball, basketball, hockey and American football players.

  4. 4.

    A type of firecracker, used by farmers to scare rooks.

v.
  1. 1.

    To be a rookie; to go through one's inexperienced learning period in a job, team, or organization.

    不及物
  2. 2.

    To haze one or more rookies as an initiation ritual.

    及物 体育
adj.
  1. 1.

    Non-professional; amateur

    The game was going well until I made that rookie mistake.

    the rookiest of rookie mistakes

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

cub greenhorn

上位词 5

initiate beginner novice tiro tyro

相关短语

rookie card rookie cards rookie numbers

词源

Thought to be an alteration of recruit + -ie, or from rook (“a cheat”) + -ie. Another possible origin is Dutch broekie (short for broekvent (“a boy still in short trousers”)), a common term for a shipmate. Also suggested is Irish rúca (“an inexperienced person”).

来源：wiktionary