核心畫面

You can picture 'school' as a place set aside for learning — a building you go to, and the people and time inside it that shape you. From that one place, the word stretches outward: to the stretch of life spent there, to higher places of study, to any group that has been 'taught' the same way of thinking. A quite separate, older meaning — a shoal of fish — rides along on the same spelling but grows from a different root.

可以把 school 想成一個「專門用來學習的地方」——你去到的那棟建築,以及裡頭的人、時間,把你慢慢塑造成形。從這更多收起可以把 school 想成一個「專門用來學習的地方」——你去到的那棟建築,以及裡頭的人、時間,把你慢慢塑造成形。從這一個地方出發,這個字向外延伸:延伸成在那裡度過的那段人生、更高階的求學場所、乃至任何「被同一套方式教出來」的一群人(流派)。另外還有一個完全不同、更古老的意思——一群一起游的魚(魚群)——它只是剛好和「學校」拼成同一個字,其實長在不同的詞根上。

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。

schoolnoun詞源 1/skuːl/

  • 1

    An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.

    • Our children attend a public school in our neighborhood.
    • Harvard University is a famous American postsecondary school.
  • 2

    An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).

    • One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools, said the report, as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence. […] In Syria, 3,900 schools have been destroyed, damaged or occupied for purposes other than education since the start of the conflict over two years ago.
  • 3

    At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.

    • Divinity, history and geography are studied for two schools per week.
  • 4

    Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area.

    • We are enrolled in the same university, but I attend the School of Economics and my brother is in the School of Music.
  • 5

    An art movement, a community of artists.

    • The Barbizon school of painters were part of an art movement towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic movement of the time.
  • 6

    The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.

    • These economists belong to the monetarist school.
    • Let no man be leſſe confident in his holy faith […] by reason of any difference of judgement vvhich is in the ſeveral Schools of Chriſtians concerning the effects and conſequent bleſſings of this Sacrament.
  • 7

    The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.

    • I’ll see you after school.
  • 8

    The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held.

另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age.

    • He was a gentleman of the old school.
    • His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools.
  • 10

    An establishment offering specialized instruction, as for driving, cooking, typing, coding, etc.

schoolverb詞源 1/skuːl/

  • 1

    To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school).

    • Many future prime ministers were schooled in Eton.
    • I tooke delights / In plucking Apples from t’Heſperian Trees, / Which Eating, I grew Learn’d: adde to All theſe / My Priuate Readings, which more School’d my Soule, / Then Tutors, when they ſternliest did Controll / With Frownes or Rods: […]
  • 2

    To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.

    • A blind law graduate who put the National Conference of Bar Examiners to the test got schooled in federal court.
    • Two weeks later, the Cornhuskers put on their road whites again and promptly got schooled by miserable Iowa State in Ames. After the shocking loss […]
  • 3

    To control, or compose, one’s expression.

    • She took care to school her expression, not giving away any of her feelings.

schoolnoun詞源 2/skuːl/

  • 1

    A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.

    • The divers encountered a huge school of mackerel.
  • 2

    A multitude.

schoolverb詞源 2/skuːl/

  • 1

    To form into, or travel in, a school.

    • School with other fish: you’re less likely to be eaten.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。