citizen scientist
noun [ C ] uk/ˌsɪt.ɪ.zən ˈsaɪ.ən.tɪst/ us/ˈsɪt̬.ə.zən ˌsaɪ.ən.tɪst/
公民科学家，民间科学家（没有受过专门训练的普通人从事科学工作，例如为助科学家一臂之力而收集资料）
an ordinary person without special training who does scientific work, for example collecting information in order to help scientists
You can become a citizen scientist and help track climate change. 你可以成为一名民间科学家，帮助追踪气候变化。
A citizen scientist might report a bird that normally doesn't live in a region. 民间科学家可能会报告在某个地区发现了一只通常不在那里生活的鸟儿。
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- She is one of about 120 citizen scientists participating in Project Wildbird, the first nationwide scientific study to determine what types of feed and feeders birds prefer.
- Citizen scientists looking through their home telescopes have been the first to discover supernovas and distant galaxies, comets and asteroids.
- Wanted: Citizen scientists to help biologists assess the health of our region's shallow-water fish populations.
- They are asking citizen scientists to work alongside trained scholars by monitoring the plants in their gardens.