journeyman是什么意思？

journeyman

英[ˈdʒɜ:nimən] 美[ˈdʒɜrnimən]

• n. 学徒期满的职工，熟练工人；

复数：journeymen;

例句

• The mercer's journeyman came rushing upon me with such fury as very much frighted me. 那个绸缎商的伙计气势汹汹地向我冲来,把我吓了一大跳.
• Then I proceeded to tell how the journeyman treated me. 然后我继续说到那个伙计怎样对待我.
• Douglas was a 29-year-old journeyman fighter, erratic in his previous fights. 道格拉斯29岁，是个技术不错的拳击手，在以前的比赛中发挥不太稳定。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  （旧时的）满师学徒工，学徒期满的工匠
  In former times, a journeyman was a worker who had finished learning a trade and who was employed by someone rather than working on his or her own.
• N-COUNT
  （缺乏天分或原创性的）熟练工，熟手
  If you refer to someone as a journeyman, you mean that they have the basic skill which their job requires, but are not very talented or original.
  例句
  Douglas was a 29-year-old journeyman fighter, erratic in his previous fights. 道格拉斯29岁，是个技术不错的拳击手，在以前的比赛中发挥不太稳定。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft