a person who has recently started an activity 初学者；新手；生手 a person who has recently changed to a new religion 刚接受新宗教信仰的人；新皈依者 a person who has recently become a priest or recently entered a religious order 新受圣职的司铎；修会初学生
Word Originlate Middle English: via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek neophutos, literally ‘newly planted’ but first used in the sense ‘new convert’ by St Paul in the Bible (1 Tim. 3:6), from neos ‘new’ + phuton ‘plant’.