付給學校的錢
從「教學」轉指「教學的費用」：這個轉向在美式英文裡已經變成主要意思，看到美國學生說 tuition 幾乎都是在談錢。
tuition fee · noun · B1
the money you pay to a school, college, or university for being taught there.
學費
核心畫面
Picture teaching aimed at you specifically — one teacher, you or a few others, working through what you personally need. That is tuition; and because such teaching is something you pay for, the word also came to name the payment itself.
可以想成：針對你而來的教學——一位老師，面對你或少數幾個人，處理你個人卡住的地方。這就是 tuition；而因為這樣…更多收起
可以想成：針對你而來的教學——一位老師，面對你或少數幾個人，處理你個人卡住的地方。這就是 tuition；而因為這樣的教學是要付錢的，這個字後來也用來指那筆錢。From the picture
Also in this word
private teaching · noun · B1
teaching given to one person or a small group, often outside a regular class.
補習；個別教學
原始詞典資料4 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。
tuitionnoun/tjuːˈɪʃən/
- 1
The training or instruction provided by a teacher or tutor.
- Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.[…]There are no inspectors, no exams until the age of 18, no school league tables, no private tuition industry, no school uniforms. […]
- 2
Paid private classes taken outside of formal education; tutoring. (also used attributively)
- tuition classes
- Tuition in the past was like taking medicine and you sent children for it only if they were doing poorly in a subject.
- 3
A sum of money paid for instruction (such as in a private school, boarding school, university, or college).
- The school’s tuition will increase by five percent next year.
- 4
archaicCare, guardianship.
- BENEDICK. I have almost matter enough in me for such an embassage; and so I commit you— CLAUDIO. To the tuition of God: from my house, if I had it,— DON PEDRO. The sixth of July: your loving friend, Benedick. BENEDICK. Nay, mock not, mock not.
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。