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protégé

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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prot·é· /ˈprɒtəʒeɪ $ ˈproʊ-/ noun [countable]  SEsomeone, especially a young person, who is taught and helped by someone who has influence, power, or more experience 受提携的后进,门生,门徒 She attempted to encourage her young protégé. 她尽量鼓励自己的年轻门生。
Examples from the Corpus
protégéA Youngman protégé could take over the old boy's lecturing responsibilities and everything would fit together rather nicely.I was too afraid of falling hopelessly in love with this protégé of Yukio Mishima, whose marvellous homoerotic poems I translated.She'd been taken on by Harman almost as - well yes, his protégé really.That leadership itself fell to Buxton, he argued, as a protégé of Clapham.
Origin protégé (1700-1800) French past participle of protéger, from Latin protegere; → PROTECT
prot·é· nounChineseSyllable
young is a Corpus person, who someone, especially


protégé
proté /ˈprɒtəʒeɪ $ ˈproʊ-/ noun [countable]
 Date: 1700-1800
 Language: French
 Origin: past participle of protéger, from Latin protegere; protect
someone, especially a young person, who is taught and helped by someone who has influence, power, or more experience:
    She attempted to encourage her young protégé.


pro·tégé (
feminine
pro·té·gée
)
BrE /ˈprɒtəʒeɪ/ 🔊NAmE /ˈproʊtəʒeɪ/ 🔊 noun (from French)
a young person who is helped in their career and personal development by a more experienced person 受提携的后进a protégé of the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin伟大的小提琴家耶胡迪 · 梅纽因的门生