- 1教授的；有教授派頭的
This word is about professors. It can mean “to do with a professor’s job”: professorial duties, a professorial post, the work of teaching and writing at a university. It is also used for a way of talking or acting that feels typical of a professor — slow, careful, a bit like a lecture, sometimes a little pleased with how much it knows. Though actually, people often say it with a small smile. It is not always kind and not always mean; it can just mean “you sound as if you are teaching the room.” It is a fairly formal, educated word. You will meet it in writing and in stories more than in street talk.
組成From Latin professorius (“of a professor”) + -al. By the shape of the English word, professor + -ial.
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- professorthe person; this adjective is built from that word plus -ial
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
professorialadj/ˌprɒfəˈsɔːɹiəl/
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Of, relating to, or characteristic of a professor or professors, or of a professorship or professorships.
- David and I were not "intimate" friends. There was always a certain old-worldly formality about our interchanges. There was something professorial and distant about David, something that commanded respect, partially, I think, because he was so respectful himself.
- Adamant that women could not enter the professorial fraternity, [[w:Cornell University|Cornell [University]]] did not appoint any women professors until 1911 and then only in home economics. Comstock regained her professorial title only in 1913, after working for many years as a lecturer (Conable 127, 130).
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