enthusiast

enthusiast
noun
  1. a person who is highly interested in a particular activity or subject
    爱好者,热衷者
    a sports car enthusiast.
    赛车爱好者。
    ■(archaic, derogatory)a person of intense and visionary Christian views
    (古,贬)基督教狂热分子
语源
  1. early 17th cent. (denoting a person believing that he or she is divinely inspired): from French enthousiaste or ecclesiastical Latin enthusiastes 'member of a heretical sect', from Greek enthousiastēs 'person inspired by a god', from the adjective enthous (see enthusiasm)
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