跨過那一步的人
從動作變成身分：已經跨上去的那個人，就叫 graduate。
graduate (degree holder) · noun · B2
Someone who has finished a university degree, especially their first one.
畢業生
核心畫面
Picture a staircase of , and someone off the top of one flight onto the next: the course behind them is finished and a new level begins. Graduate is that step up. It names the moment (the verb), the person who has taken it (the noun), and the level that lies above a first degree (the adjective).
可以想成：一段一段往上的階梯，有人剛踏完一層、跨上下一層——身後那段課程結束了，新的層級開始。graduate 就是…更多收起
可以想成：一段一段往上的階梯，有人剛踏完一層、跨上下一層——身後那段課程結束了，新的層級開始。graduate 就是這一步。它可以指那個時刻（動詞）、指跨過去的那個人（名詞），也可以指第一個學位之上的那一層（形容詞）。看懂了「往上跨一級」這個畫面，連帶就懂了為什麼它也能用在跟學校無關的事情上。From the picture
學士之上的那一層
階梯再往上一階：已經跨過學士這一層之後才開始的學習，就用這個字標示。
graduate-level study · adjective · B2
Relating to study done at a university after a first degree.
研究所的
升級到更好的東西
把學校拿掉，只留下「往上跨一級」：從小的換到大的、從簡單的換到進階的。
move up/advance · verb · B2
To move up from something to something bigger, better, or more important.
晉升到；進階到
Also in this word
graduate (finish university) · verb · B2
To finish a university or college course and receive a degree.
畢業
graduate (finish high school, AmE) · verb · B2
In American English, to finish high school.
高中畢業
graduate (confer a degree) · verb · B2
To give students a degree or diploma when they have finished their studies.
頒發學位給
原始詞典資料16 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。
graduatenoun詞源 1/ˈɡɹæd͡ʒuət/
- 1
A person who is recognized as having completed any of various levels of education.
- If the government wants graduates to stay in the country, they should offer more incentives.
- 2
A person who is recognized as having completed any of various levels of education.
- If the school board wants a higher percentage of students to become graduates, they should improve their remedial help for underachieving students.
- 3
A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring.
graduateadj詞源 1/ˈɡɹæd͡ʒuət/
- 1
graduated, arranged by degrees
- 2
holding an academic degree
- 3
relating to an academic degree
graduateverb詞源 2/ˈɡɹædjueɪt/
- 1
To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
- The man graduated in 1967.
- Trisha graduated from college.
- 2
To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution).
- Trisha graduated college.
- 3
To certify (a student) as having earned a degree
- Indiana University graduated the student.
- The college graduated him as soon as he was no longer eligible to play under NCAA rules.
- 4
To mark (something) with degrees; to divide into regular steps or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.
- 5
To change gradually.
- As the species graduate into each other, both in form and in habits, from the grass-eating Geese to the fish-eating Harelds, it is difficult, […] to divide this large group into sections.
- Yadav, born Bharat Kalicharan, was a petty thief who had graduated to bigger crimes, terrorising Kasturba Nagar, on the edge of the city of Nagpur, in Maharashtra, from the 1990s until his death.
- 6
To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of.
- to graduate the heat of an oven
- Dyers, who advance and graduate their colours with salts.
- 7
chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesTo bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
- 8
To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
- 9
computingengineeringmathematicsTo approve (a feature) for general release.
- We have graduated the new machine-learning features and will roll them out tomorrow.
- 10
entertainmentlifestyleOf an idol: to exit a group; or of a virtual YouTuber, to leave a management agency; usually accompanied with "graduation ceremony" send-offs, increased focus on the leaving member, and the like.
- Fans speculate that she was forced to graduate due to harassment and doxxing by stalkers and haters.
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。