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

• Some professional competition and performance come out in succession besides some amateurish ones on ACG exhibitions here and there.
  除了各地的大小漫展上的比赛和表演，一些专门的赛事和演出也陆续出现。
• It makes me despair that we are led by such men, with researchers who are so amateurish.
  这样的人在领导着我们，而且协助他的研究者如此业余，实在让我绝望。
• 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。
• They typically& they like to talk about the politics of it and this thing, that it's dead on arrival or it'ssomeone said it's an amateurish proposal.
  他们不约而同地大书特书这个改革的政治色彩，或者说些这个计划死定了之类的话，有的人还说这是个欠考虑的改革计划。
• He was laughed for his amateurish performance.
  他那笨拙的表演遭到了嘲笑。
• Conservative Jim Garner presents us with an amateurish politician unqualified for the vice presidency, yet also a shrewd legal opportunist swimming in cash.
  属于保守派的吉姆·加纳让我们看到的爱德华兹是一个当副总统还不够格的外行政客，一个在钱海中游泳的精明的机会主义律师。
• He said it was amateurish.
  他说这是业余水平。
• The paintings looked amateurish.
  这些画作看起来只具备业余水准。
• 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。
• 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。