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A professor emeritus (or a director emeritus) has stopped doing the job, but the university or the company lets them keep the old title as an honour. They are not ; they have finished their service, and the title is a thank-you that stays.
A professor emeritus (or a director emeritus)榮譽教授（或榮譽總監） has stopped doing the job已經不做那份工作了，but但 the university or the company lets them keep the old title as an honour學校或公司讓他們保留原本的頭銜，當作一種榮譽。They他們 are not fired並不是被開除，they have finished their service而是已經功成身退，and而且 the title is a thank-you that stays這個頭銜是留下來的一種感謝。
You will see it after a name: Professor Emeritus Chen. It can be an adjective (an emeritus professor) or a noun (an emeritus).
You will see it after a name你會看到它放在名字後面：Professor Emeritus Chen「陳榮譽教授」。It它 can be an adjective (an emeritus professor)可以當形容詞（an emeritus professor）or or a noun (an emeritus)也可以當名詞（an emeritus）。
The Latin plural is emeriti; some people still use that in formal writing. A woman is sometimes called emerita, though many places now use emeritus for everyone.
The Latin plural拉丁文的複數 is emeriti是 emeriti；some people still use that in formal writing有些人在正式書寫裡還是這樣用。A woman女性有時候 is sometimes called emerita被稱作 emerita，though many places now use emeritus for everyone不過現在很多地方對所有人都用 emeritus。
It is a respectful, rather ceremonial word. You would not use it for someone who just left a shop job.
It它 is a respectful, rather ceremonial word是個帶著敬意、頗為隆重的用詞。You would not use it你不會用這個字 for someone who just left a shop job去形容一個剛離開店員工作的人。
組成A learned borrowing from Latin ēmeritus (“having been earned; having done one’s service”), the past form of ēmereō (“to earn; to serve out one’s time”), from ex- (“out, away”) + mereō (“to deserve, to earn”). The noun comes from the adjective; the plural emeriti is also from Latin.
同家族的字
- meritboth from Latin mereō “to earn, deserve”
原始詞典資料3 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。
emeritusadj/ɪˈmɛɹɪtəs/
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Retired, but retaining an honorific version of a previous title.
- emeritus professor professor emeritus professors emeritae
- pontiff emeritus
emeritusnoun/ɪˈmɛɹɪtəs/
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A (male) person who is retired from active service or an occupation, especially one who retains an honorific version of a previous title.
- Martin Engels said: “I am not posted on dyke-bridges, but if it is a Dutch scheme there may be something in it. That engineer made a mistake by calling the city officials emerituses. He should not call people names if he wants the Municipal Council to build his twenty-four-million-dollar bridge. If the Tammany organization wants to build a dyke-bridge, I’m for it.”
- Now, we have no criticism for college presidents and emerituses as such. A man may be all that and still be a pretty good fellow—whatever the effect might be on his character and happiness. But there is one thing certain—no one man can know it all.
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rareAn honorific version of a previous title.
- With a string of “emerituses” behind his name, last of which was acquired with the Welfare society resignation, [George Q.] Sheppard now lives in retirement in his home at The Hill, 722 King street.
- NOW THE VENERABLE and distinguished First National Bank bossman has joined a distinguished league. To my knowledge, he shares his honors with two other distinguished Orlandoans — Dr. J. Powell Tucker, pastor emeritus of the First Baptist Church, and J. C. Brossier, editor emeritus of the Orlando Evening Star. And now that Dr. and Mrs. Tucker have returned home from a month’s vacation trip, the good doctor can sit down today with Mr. Allen and Mr. Brossier and they can talk about their emerituses.
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。