英:[ˈkæləʊ]
美:[ˈkæloʊ]
英:[ˈkæləʊ]
美:[ˈkæloʊ]
cal·low
kae lo
callowness (n.)
词根:callow
n.callowness 缺乏经验
adjective
lacking adult sophistication or judgment; inexperienced; immature.Some of the more experienced workers were happy to take advantage of the callow young lad.
中古英语 calwe,古英语 calu,意为“赤裸的,秃头的”,源自原始日耳曼语 *kalwa-(也指中古荷兰语 calu,荷兰语 kaal,古高地德语 kalo,德语 Kahl),源自印欧语根 *gal-(1)“秃头的,赤裸的”(也指俄语 golyi “光滑的,秃头的”)。从没有羽毛的幼鸟,这个词的含义扩展到任何年轻的、没有经验的事物或生物,因此意为“年轻的,青少年的,不成熟的”(1570年代)。它显然与拉丁语 calvus “秃头的”无关。
无经验的
Middle English calu bald, from Old English; akin to Old High German kalo bald, Old Church Slavonic golŭ bare
The first known use of callow was in 1580
callowadjective
lacking adult experience : immature
callow youth
callowadjective
lacking adult experience : immature
callow youth
1 I felt blocked, unable to see a way to write that wasn't either regressive, or which turned the "modernist moment" into an exercise in callow navel-gazing.
2 But he is particularly exercised by what he portrays as historians’ dogmatic insistence on a kind of callow relativism, according to which people are free to believe whatever arbitrary assertion they come up with.
3 Three years earlier, she was a callow intern covering Fourth of July celebrations in a small Maryland seaside resort for local TV.
4 By contrast, Janáček’s Idyll for String Orchestra, a superficially appealing but callow rarity, went on too long and was performed with too little differentiation to generate real enthusiasm.
5 Once Lolly is more or less awake, Ms. Sexton has good fun contrasting her shallow city styles with Pigeon’s callow ways.
6 The first of his New Yorker stories that O’Hara thought worthy of book publication was “On His Hands,” a monologue in which a callow young man reveals more about himself than he intends to.
7 Shields assumes that fictional characters are merely authors’ ”surrogate selves,” but like many fictional creations, Vronsky—callow, dashing and professionally ambitious—is not that.
8 Sam Troughton matches her perfectly, in that his Romeo grows from callow moodiness into a violently intemperate love that can have only one possible destination.
9 Fincher and Sorkin know that in order to get us interested in these characters, callow ambition, extreme privilege and outlandish betrayal need foregrounding at the expense of discussions over server capacity.
10 When Doris complains, her mother scolds her for being a callow narcissist.
11 They are callow men compared with the Mephistophelean Gregor, who plays them as if they were pinball machines.
12 In the past two decades, many politicians have followed a narrow and callow career path.
过去二十年里,许多政客走的是一条狭隘无知的职业道路。
13 The young queen, a callow peacemaker as a girl, has grown angry and aggrieved.
14 Satan pocketed a bottle and shuffled toward the car. Peeking inside, he saw a callow young man at the wheel. "Where you headed?" he said.
撒旦将一只瓶子揣进口袋,拖着双脚走向车子。往里一瞄,发现驾车的是个愣头小伙子。“你去哪?”他问。
15 There was something about his handsomeness, as with his persona, that profited from a little creasing, from being worn in, that can make the younger actor look a little callow by comparison.
16 In fulfillment of the band’s one-thoughtful-song-per-album mandate, everyone pretends to be contemplative and sad, but Levine wasn’t made for that — he was built to be callow and slippery, and he’s commendably good at those things.
17 A troop of newly arrived students, very young, pink and callow, followed nervously, rather abjectly, at the Director’s heels.
18 The callow meanness of these speeches is the point, but they're also draining.
19 I read Lord of the Rings when I was an undergraduate, but I was very callow and easily impressed.
20 As a character named Bing Crosby he plays a worst-case version of the callow young performer he was, a dissipated radio star whose drinking makes him perpetually late for his broadcasts.
1 低湿的
3 未成熟的
hard young green rough tender juvenile crude adolescent embryo untimely unripe abortive sucking unformed jejune unfledged underripe in the shell
4 尚未长羽毛的
5 不自信的
6 不成熟
young tender juvenile sophomore rude inadequate undeveloped half-baked unseasoned inchoate half-cooked jejune viridescent soph new-laid prekindergarten viridity with ears flapping
7 不成熟的
juvenile crude half-baked puerile unseasoned fledgling wet behind the ears early undeveloped underdeveloped unformed inchoate babyish jejune unfledged unmatured young tender sophomore rude inadequate half-cooked viridescent soph new-laid prekindergarten
9 无经验
inexperienced unskilled wide-eyed snot-nosed inexperience green fresh lay raw unused half-baked guiltless viridity new freshwater naive fledgling verdant uninitiated prentice unexperienced unschooled unversed unpracticed unhackneyed
10 未成熟
hard young green rough tender juvenile crude adolescent embryo untimely unripe abortive sucking unformed jejune unfledged underripe immaturity prematurity greenness crudeness verdancy in the shell
11 无经验的
raw naive untried unseasoned unschooled unversed snot-nosed unpractised unfledged raggedy-ass new green ignorant unskilled verdant guiltless inexperienced wide-eyed fresh lay unused half-baked freshwater fledgling uninitiated prentice unexperienced unpracticed unhackneyed
13 不谙世事的
14 乳臭未干的