Externally it presents the appearance of some curious, uncouth, cast iron box, which, to the uninitiated, piques the curiosity, and when opened adds no explanation of its real character. Edward W. Byrn.十九世纪发明进展.
Generally speaking, non-technical and uninitiated persons have a tendency to regard an invention as being more or less the ultimate result of some happy inspiration. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
One of these was that so messages might be sent understandable by the sender and receiver, but not plain to the uninitiated. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Here, for the benefit of the uninitiated, a little description of the film and the projecting head of a machine is necessary. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.