tyro

n. 初学者, 生手, 新手

发音

UK /ˈtaɪɹəʊ/
其它
US /ˈtaɪɹoʊ/

词形变化

tyroes tyros 复数 tyros tyroes 复数

别名

tiro

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A beginner; a novice.

    1857, The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, included in The Portable North American Indian Reader, New York: Penguin Books, 1977, page 525, Master of that woodland-cunning enabling the adept to subsist where the tyro would perish...

词汇关系

词源

From Latin tīrō (“young soldier, recruit”). In Medieval Latin the term was often spelt as tyro whence the English spelling is derived.

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