rookie英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

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

— Corbett is convinced it was a systemic failure: "The Thames Train was driven by a rookie driver who had only just come into the job. It is, in fact, difficult to run through a red light, because you have to cancel the Automatic Warning System (AWS) and so on. But he continued for 700 yards and he accelerated, which no one understands why.
A novice.
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.
A type of firecracker, used by farmers to scare rooks. UK

动词 v.

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

— In 1977 he rookied as a smokejumper with the International Forest Fire Systems, a private firm that contracted smokejumping services to Canada's Northwest Territories.
To haze one or more rookies as an initiation ritual. transitive

— Great was my surprise when I found that I had been "rookied" in for a policing-up detail with no chance to "allez."

形容词 adj.

Non-professional; amateur

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

词形变化

rookies plural rookier comparative rookiest superlative rookies present,singular,third-person rookying participle,present rookied participle,past rookied past

词汇关系

近义词

beginner newbie noob tyro novice

衍生词

cookee rookie card rookielike rookie numbers

词源

词源 1

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”).

词源 2

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”).

词源 3

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”).