tenderfoot

n. 新手，新来者；无经验者

n.

新手；初学者；（拓荒地等的）新来者；新参加的童子军

变形

复数：tenderfeet

英英释义

tenderfoot[ 'tendəfut ]

n.an inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced in outdoor living)

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

I guess he is a business tenderfoot.
我猜想他是生意场上的新手。

权威例句

tenderfoot (n.)

1866, American English, originally of newcomers to ranching or mining districts, from tender (adj.) + foot (n.). The U.S. equivalent of what in Great Britain was generally called a greenhand. As a level in Boy Scouting, it is recorded from 1908.

Among the Indians, more than half of every sentence is expressed by signs. And miners illustrate their conversation by the various terms used in mining. I have always noticed how clearly these terms conveyed the idea sought. Awkwardness in comprehending this dialect easily reveals that the hearer bears the disgrace of being a "pilgrim," or a "tender-foot," as they style the new emigrant. ["A Year in Montana," "Atlantic Monthly," August 1866]

1. On the screen, a shadow flickered—a shadow with feet like boxcars and a smile like the last soliloquy of Hamlet. He was a tenderfoot.

在萤幕上，一个影子跳动着——这个影子脚上穿着硕大的鞋子，脸上有着仿佛哈姆雷特在最后独白时的诡异笑容。

2. "Black" Burton, a man evil tempered and malicious, had been picking a quarrel with a tenderfoot at the bar, when Thornton stepped good naturedly between.

在酒吧里，脾气极坏、心肠离狠的“黑汉”伯顿，跟一个新来的人寻衅滋事，桑德好意上前劝解。

3. I served the first part of my sentence in several correctional work camps of mixed types (this kind of camp is described in the play, The Tenderfoot and the Tramp).

我的判决中的第一部分是在混合营（这种隔离营应该用一出戏来形容，《新手与流氓》（TheTenderfootandtheTramp））当中进行一些改造工作。

4. I served the first part of my sentence in several correctional work camps of mixed types (this kind of camp is described in the play, The Tenderfoot and the Tramp).

我的判决中的第一部分是在混合营（这种隔离营应该用一出戏来形容，《新手与流氓》（TheTenderfootandtheTramp））当中进行一些改造工作。

5. I guess he is a business tenderfoot.

我猜想他是生意场上的新手。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

6. The old factory hand treat the tenderfoot like their slave

工厂里的老手拿新手当奴隶般对待

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译参考