Personally, I look upon him as a mere greenhorn, or, as would be said in Wagner's dramas, a "pure simpleton."英文原著 · 《George Sand》
" 'There, you little greenhorn, see if that will teach you better than to explode your infernal fire-crackers in my house again.'英文原著 · 《Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum》
"Shucks, that wasn't anything. Don't keep blowing about it--shows you're a greenhorn."英文原著 · 《One of Ours》
As to the little details of your daily routine in the mountains, many are worth setting down, however trivial they may seem. They mark the difference between the greenhorn and the old-timer; but, more important, they mark also the difference between the right and the wrong, the efficient and the inefficient ways of doing things.英文原著 · 《The Mountains》
George glanced up and down the car to be sure no one was looking, then took out his pocketbook and counted his money. His mind was occupied with a desire not to appear green. Almost the last words his father had said to him concerned the mat- ter of his behavior when he got to the city. "Be a sharp one," Tom Willard had said. "Keep your eyes on your money. Be awake. That's the ticket. Don't let anyone think you're a greenhorn."英文原著 · 《Winesburg,Ohio》