Dabble

When you dabble in something, you are only a little bit involved in an activity or work with in an amateurish manner.
Like millions of Americans, he had begun dabbling in the stock market during the pandemic, even if they were not experts in financial markets.
Unlike other tech giants now dabbling in video, such as Amazon, Facebook hasn’t made a big commitment to creating its own content.
He worked as a manager for livestock companies in California and Idaho while dabbling in venture investing and sometimes performing in country music bands.
He earned a degree in political science at Yale University in 1974 and dabbled in politics, including campaigning for Gary Hart when he sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988.

Dabble这个单词为动词，其表示“do something in an amateurish manner”这一含义，即“涉猎/涉足”，与dally/be amateur/work superficially这些单词与短语构成近义词。实际使用时，我们可以用dabble in sth这一结构表达“涉猎某事/某种活动。” 注意，当使用这个单词表示“涉猎”时，其多传递出一种“amateur（业余）”的含义。
实际使用场景如下：

Tom majors in finance and also dabbles in astronomy.（Tom主修金融学，但同时也涉猎天文学。）
—News
He said he has been investing mostly in stocks, though he also dabbled in options and cryptocurrencies. （他说他主要进行股票投资，但同时也涉猎期权与加密数字货币。)
—Business
Like other major video streaming sites around the world, Kuaishou and iQiyi have dabbled in making augmented reality content, and securing a hardware partner will no doubt be instrumental to their early experiments.（与世界上其他主要的视频流媒体网站一样，快手和爱奇艺也涉足制作增强现实内容，获得硬件合作伙伴无疑将有助于他们早期的实验。）
—Business