prep school

英 [ˈprep skuːl]

美 [ˈprep skuːl]

n.  预备学校(英国为11或13岁以下的儿童开办的私立学校); 预备学校，预科学校(美国为准备升入大学者开设的私立学校)

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柯林斯词典

• 预备学校（英国为11或13岁以下的儿童开办的私立学校）
  In Britain, aprep schoolis a private school where children are educated until the age of 11 or 13.
• N-VAR 预备学校，预科学校（美国为准备升入大学者而设的私立学校）
  In the United States, aprep schoolis a private school for students who intend to go to college after they leave.
  1. ...an exclusive prep school in Washington.
     华盛顿一所贵族预科学校

英英释义

noun

• a private secondary school
  Synonym:preparatory school

双语例句

• He had sandy hair, and I think I was especially aware of him because he looked more like a kid from a prep school than a customer in a West Side bank.
  他长着浅棕色的头发。我想我之所以特别注意到他，是因为他看上去像个预科学校的孩子，而不像个西区银行的顾客。
• Just two days before she killed herself, Val gave me a gift, a token of congratulations on being accepted to the Naval Academy prep school in Rhode Island.
  就在她自己的两天前，威尔给了我一个礼物，对我被罗得岛海军预备学院接受以示祝贺。
• Looking just as snazzy as his teacher, Glee's prep school spy plays the part – and dashingly!
  《欢乐合唱团》中的演员克里斯看着和他在剧中的老师一样时髦。
• Pencey Prep is this school that's in Agerstown, Pennsylvania.
  潘西这学校在宾夕法尼亚州埃杰斯镇。
• Sam has bad dreams because soon he will be going to prep school.
  萨姆老是做恶梦，因为不久他就要进预备学校了。
• I had applied to the academy twice before I was finally accepted to the prep school, an education that would put me on my way to a commission from Annapolis.
  在被预备役学院最终接受之前我曾经两次申请，一种可以把我从安娜波里斯转回正途的教育。
• He remembers beginning aged 12, as a boy at prep school, when he was given one of those individual garden plots.
  他记得自己12岁在预科学校念书时就开始了，当时他得到了那些单独园地中的一块。
• But in the end, the real value of a prep school education is more than just getting into Harvard.
  然而最后我们得出的结论是，预科学校的教育的真正价值决不仅止于让孩子进入类似哈佛的名牌大学。
• One year at a prep school left students with four years of eligibility at a four-year university, as opposed to two years of eligibility after two years at a junior college.
  学生在预备学习一年之后，就可以准备进入四年制的大学或是两年制的初级学院学习了。
• He grew up working-class in Manhattan and was always drawn to the prep school mystique.
  他成长于曼哈顿的工人阶级，总是被预科神秘性所吸引。