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In British English, a crammer is a school — often a small private one — that stuffs students with exam work in a short time. You go there not for a full education but to get through a test: school-leaving exams, university entrance, a professional paper. The feeling is speed and volume, not slow understanding. Older British speakers still use it; it can sound a little old-fashioned or slightly , as if the place is packing heads rather than teaching. Americans almost never use this noun for a school; they are more likely to say a prep course or a test-prep school. (The word can also mean a person who crams overnight, but that is not this sense.) The -er here names the place that does the cramming, not a person.
補習班(英式;尤指趕考、惡補的學校)
組成cram (to push a lot of studying into a short time) + -er (here, the place that does that).
同家族的字
- cramthe verb: to force a lot in quickly; a crammer is the school built around that.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
crammernoun
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One who crams or stuffs.
- The pigeon crammers of Paris took mouthfuls of grain and water and spat it into the mouth of a pigeon.
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A book used for accelerated study in preparation for an examination.
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A student who studies hard for an examination.
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A teacher who aids such a student.
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A school whose speciality is helping students to pass certain examinations.
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datedslangA liar.
- Look here; do you mean to call me a crammer?
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datedslangA lie.
- I'm afraid he wouldn't mind telling crammers about it if he was questioned.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。