| 单词 | enthusiast |
| 释义 | en·thu·si·ast 1. < a society of enthusiasts dominated by the conviction that they were spirit-possessed — G.W.H.Lampe > 2. < took to task mystics and enthusiasts whose faith transcended the bounds of reasonableness — Andrew Brown > 3. a. < a former mountain-climbing enthusiast — Current Biography > < an impassioned enthusiast for both literature and painting — Times Literary Supplement > b. < we are a nation of enthusiasts — Oden Meeker > Synonyms: < was not in the least an enthusiast, which literally means “possessed by God”. He was a casuist and a theorist — Francis Hackett > < he had been in his youth an enthusiast for liberty, and had hailed the dawn of the French Revolution — T.L.Peacock > < a chess enthusiast > < a sailing enthusiast > fanatic is often used hyperbolically for enthusiast < a baseball fanatic > It may suggest a mad or irrational devotion and concentration, with resolute determination and uncompromising fixity < a virtuous fanatic, regarding all ways as wrong but his own, and thinking all men who would not walk as he prescribed wicked as well as mistaken — J.A.Froude > < a utopia about which he was utterly dogmatic — which he explained to me with fanatic zeal — as dogmatic, as undeviating as the most rabid Communist — Carleton Beals > zealot applies to one showing ardent devotion to and vehement activity for protecting or furthering a cause < the reopening of village churches that had been closed by the action of local zealots — A.R.Williams > bigot applies to one blindly and obstinately devoted to his own creed or belief with stern, stiff-necked, dogged disdain, contempt, and intolerance of others < not that the modern bigot is any more tolerant or less cruel than her ancestors — G.B.Shaw > |
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