laymen

英 [ˈleɪmən]

美 [ˈleɪmən]

n.  非专业人员; 外行; 门外汉; 平信徒，在俗教徒(非神职人员)
layman的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 外行；门外汉
  Alaymanis a person who is not trained, qualified, or experienced in a particular subject or activity.
  1. The mere mention of the words 'heart failure', can conjure up, to the layman, the prospect of imminent death...
     一提“心脏衰竭”四字，外行人就联想到命不久矣的情景。
  2. There are basically two types called, in layman's terms, blue and white asbestos.
     基本上有两种，用外行话说就是青石棉和白石棉。
• N-COUNT （基督教中的）平信徒，在俗教徒
  Alaymanis a man who is involved with the Christian church but is not a member of the clergy or a monk.
  1. In 1932, one Boston layman wrote to Archbishop William O'Connell in support of Father Coughlin.
     1932年，波士顿一名平信徒致函大主教威廉·奥康奈尔，声援库格林神父。

双语例句

• This article concentrates on outlining the development trend of the relationship between monks and laymen in Henan County through analyzing the factors in various aspects.
  本文通过分析各层面的因素，试图勾勒出河南地区僧俗两大势力间关系发展变化的轮廓。
• Citizen science is an increasingly popular technique that involves recruiting a large number of laymen into a study, and using them as observers and, sometimes, as data processors.
  “市民科学”是一项影响力日益增大的技术，包括征集大量的非专业人员参与到研究中来，并对他们进行观察，有时也拿他们作为数据的获取源。
• The standard of education was rising in the Church and spreading among laymen.
  教会的教育水平正在上升，并且在俗人中普及。
• Such rebellions on the part of "laymen" may lead to the emergence of rival definitions of reality and, eventually, to the appearance of new experts in charge of the new definitions.
  这样的叛变，就门外汉而言，可能导致对实体敌对定义的出现，并且最终会出现掌管新定义的新专家。
• After the monk, monks, so the method number fills in the "laymen" explanation.
  后出家为僧，法号大千，所以世人也称其为“大千居士”。
• Protection of Life Album of Painting, the religious ecology ethics thought cartoon collection is a cartoon series created together by the modern Buddhist priests and laymen for the purpose of propagating refrains from killing, protecting lives and so on.
  《护生画集》是近代僧俗两界共同创作的一部旨在弘扬戒杀、护生等宗教生态伦理思想的漫画丛书。
• The initial reaction of law students and laymen alike, when they are first told about international law, is usually highly sceptical.
  法律系的学生和外行人初次听说国际法时，最初的反应通常是非常怀疑的。
• Before we go any further, I would like to provide a very high level overview of PPM in laymen's terms.
  在我们深入之前，我想要用非专业术语高度概述一下PPM。
• Such reforms as these were so completely inadequate that they failed to give satisfaction to the host of clerics and laymen who desired a thorough reform.
  这样的改革远未够火候，因为他们不能满足许多神俗两届期待彻底改观的官员的要求。
• A TV series could make IT laymen better understand the work of IT experts.
  该系列片也许能让IT僧俗们更好地理解IT专家。