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
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)