dabbler

1. The half-filled bottle sloshes; the full bottle remains still.; The dabbler in knowledge chatters away; the wise man stays silent.
   一瓶子不响，半瓶子晃荡。
2. If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.
   通观历史，你会发现，如果一个国家的大权，正好落入某个半吊子哲学家或者文学癖好者手中，那么，这样的统治者对国家造成的灾难，将无与伦比。
3. I have held this English dabbler person in contempt most!
   我最鄙视这种半吊子英语的人了！
4. Those possessed of great wisdom are composed, tranquil, and open-minded while the dabbler are chatty.
   有大智慧的人，他们沉稳，宁静，心胸开阔；半瓶醋的人，则喋喋不休；
5. He's not a dedicated musician, just a dabbler.
   他并不是专门的音乐家，只不过是个业馀爱好者。
6. She said that she was only a dabbler in the art of novel writing, and that her real interest was in poetry.
   她说自己只是一时兴起搞点小说创作，她真正感兴趣的是诗歌。
7. A dabbler in the graphic arts; pulsed He-Ne laser planeplate interferometer
   平面造型艺术的涉猎者；脉冲氦氖激光平板干涉仪
8. You dare say I am a dabbler!
   你居然敢说我是半瓶醋！
9. A dabbler in the graphic arts;
   平面造型艺术的涉猎者；

noun

1. any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling

   Synonym:    dabbling duck

2. an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge

   Synonym:    dilettantesciolist