amateurish

英 [ˈæmətərɪʃ]

美 [ˈæmətərɪʃ]

adj.  外行的; 生手的; 业余的

GRE

BNC.20119 / COCA.25255

牛津词典

adj.

• 外行的；生手的；业余的
  not done or made well or with skill
  1. Detectives described the burglary as ‘crude and amateurish’.
     侦探称这次夜盗是拙劣的生手干的。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 业余水准的；不熟练的；（像）外行的
  If you describe something asamateurish, you think that it is not skilfully made or done.
  1. We have to develop a less amateurish approach to our organisations...
     我们必须使我们对待自己组织的态度变得较为专业。
  2. The paintings looked amateurish.
     这些画作看起来只具备业余水准。

英英释义

adj

• lacking professional skill or expertise
  1. a very amateurish job
  2. inexpert but conscientious efforts
  3. an unskilled painting
  Synonym:amateurinexpertunskilled

双语例句

• Modern intellectual has to be a professionals but he/ she must try to keep a amateurish attitude;
  知识分子在现代虽然不得不是一个专业者但他必须同时努力保持一种业余的态度；
• He said it was amateurish.
  他说这是业余水平。
• It was an amateurish affair, in which she appeared to stare throughout at the wrong camera.
  在辩论过程中，她一直盯着错误的摄像机镜头，显得十分外行。
• There are some characteristics in the teaching of amateurish adult medical students.
  医学成人业余班的教学具有自身特点。
• But the tone is amateurish and counterproductive.
  但是其言辞却显得业余而适得其反。
• That was her final judgment on the story as a whole& amateurish, though she did not tell him so.
  整个说来，这就是她对这篇小说的结论&功力不够，然而她没有这样对他说。
• Then later he began to appear in some films as an amateurish actor.
  接着，他便开始在一些电影中进行业余表演。
• His portrait of Debbie was a rather amateurish effort.
  他为黛比所画的肖像是一幅相当不成熟的作品。
• Their publications were vapid and amateurish.
  他们的出版物枯燥乏味，且外行浅薄。
• The release was obviously a hoax, full of unsubstantiated claims and amateurish grammar and punctuation errors.
  这篇新闻稿显然是个恶作剧，通篇充斥着毫无事实根据的指控以及拙劣的语法和拼写错误。