Have dabbled in Shirley.

(1) 【 cursory reading; Do exhaustive reading]: read roughly and extensively; Browse without delving into it.

A secretary can't be an alcoholic or a Confucian. -"Hanshu Jia Shanzhuan"

Wide range of knowledge

Some just dabble.

Many scholars and classics are involved. -Ming Gu Yanwu's "Fu An Ji"

(2) [Dip]: A little exploration

Dabble in archaeology.

Synonym:

Read, browse and watch.

Antonym:

Study, study, intensive reading.

Explain in detail:

(1). It means to learn or learn other skills, but only to read or explore superficially, without seeking in-depth study and mastery. "Hanshu Jia Shanzhuan": "Kindness is a scholar, and what he says is about secretaries, not drunkards." Yan Shigu's Note: "If you wade through water, you will hunt animals, and you will learn from them instead of words." Song Sima Guang's poem "Sitting at Night": "Reading old news makes the soul clear." Sun Songguang showed the book "North Dream", Volume 5: "(Zhao Han) has a rough chapter, and I know all about the piano, chess, books, calculation and shooting." Liu Dakui's Biography of the Woodcutter in Qing Dynasty: "I never dabbled in art, craft or leisure, but I refused to learn poverty." Poetry Journal 1976No. 12: "So from his poems, we can see that he has a wide range of new literature in China."

(2) contact, involving. Have some relationship or connection with another thing. Tang Fengzhi's Miscellaneous Notes on Yunxian: "Xuzhou Zhang Shangshu is a prostitute, and people who borrow his books often have pink handprints on the green department." Xu Chi's Peony III: "Now, the more mature her art is, the more delicate her texture is, and the wider her emotional realm is, but her speed is obviously slow."