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• ①[常用于复合语]学校(★普通指小学、初中、高中,美国亦有称大学为school者)
  • She wishes to attend a good school.她希望念一所好学校。
  • We're going to build a new school.我们将建一所新学校。
  • keep [run] a school办(私立)学校
  • I teach in a local school.我在本地的一所学校教书。
  • She's at the school.她在学校(★作此义解时,一般无冠词,作She's at school.)。

• ②[无冠词](作学校教育解的)学校,就学(★有关high school, art school等复合语之用法亦同)
  • start [begin] school(儿童)开始上学,就学
  • She took her children to school.她送她的孩子们去上学。
  • send [put] a child to school送孩子上学,使孩子就学
  • What are you going to do when you finish school next year?你明年毕业时,要做什么?
  • leave school毕业;退学;离校
  • teach school【美】在学校教书,当教师
  • The child is old enough for school.那个孩子已到就学年龄。
  • My son is still in [at] school.我的儿子还在就学(★【美】主要用in,【英】主要用at)。
  • He went to school at Eton.他在伊顿就读。

• ③[无冠词]上课;上课日
  • Do you like school?你喜欢上课吗?
  • after school放学后
  • He was late for school.他上学迟到。
  • There's no school today.今天没课。
  • School begins [starts] at 8:45.学校八点四十五分开上课。
  • School starts [ends] next Monday.学校下周一开学[开始放假]。

• ④[the school;集合用法]全校师生;全体学生
  • The whole [entire] school knows [know] him.全校都认识他。

• ⑤ 1[常用于复合语](传授特殊技能的)学校,训练班;养成所;研习所2(经验、境遇等的)磨练的场地;锻炼的地方
  • a driving school汽车驾驶训练班
  • a finishing school女子精修学校
  • a trade [vocational] school职业训练所
  • She goes to dancing school twice a week.她每周去上两次舞蹈课(★go to school无冠词)。
  • in the hard school of adversity在逆境的磨练场地上

• ⑥ 1(大学的)学院;研究所2其建筑物,校舍
  • He has recently graduated from law school.他刚从法学院毕业。
  • the Yale Law School=the Yale School of Law耶鲁大学法学院(研究所)(★后者为正式的说法)
  • Harvard Business School哈佛大学商学院研究所

• ⑦ 1(学问、艺术等的)学派,派别2(生活等的)派,式
  • the Platonic school of philosophy柏拉图哲学派
  • Rembrandt and his school雷姆卜兰特及其流派
  • the Impressionist school of painting印象画派
  • the classical school(艺术史上的)古典派
  • the modern school现代派
  • He's an elderly gentleman of the old school.他是一位旧式[旧派]的年长绅士。

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• ① (鱼、鲸等的)群<of>
  • a school of sardines [whales]一群沙丁鱼[鲸鱼]
  • Those fish swim either singly or in schools.那些鱼不是单独游,就是成群结队地游。