finishing school

英 [ˈfɪnɪʃɪŋ skuːl]

美 [ˈfɪnɪʃɪŋ skuːl]

n.  精修学校(为富家女子学习上流社会行为所办的私立学校)

牛津词典

noun

• 精修学校（为富家女子学习上流社会行为所办的私立学校）
  a private school where young women from rich families are taught how to behave in fashionable society

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR (教授有钱人家或上流社会年轻女孩礼仪及其他社交技能的)女子精修学校，淑女学堂
  Afinishing schoolis a private school where rich or upper-class young women are taught manners and other social skills that are considered to be suitable for them.
  1. ...a Swiss finishing school.
     一所瑞士女子精修学校
  2. ...where the Princess of Wales attended finishing school.
     威尔士王妃上精修学校的地方

英英释义

noun

• a private school for girls that emphasizes training in cultural and social activities

双语例句

• So I continued to build my life, keeping a job, paying rent, and eventually finishing high school.
  所以我继续着我的生活，工作、付房租，直到最后完成高中学业。
• So, Hsieh decided to turn his life around by finishing high school, college and a master's degree program.
  因此，谢智谋决定改变他自己的命运，继续要完成高中，大学和硕士学位课程。
• Accusing her of displaying a staggering lack of grace, she used her to consider attending a finishing school.
  在指责她举止不优雅后她甚至建议她去女子精修学校学习。
• At what is being billed as the world's first finishing school for gentlemen, learning how to set the cutlery can be just as tricky as the fly fishing.
  日前，英国出现了第一家男士家政学校。学校在教会男士掌握垂钓和捕猎技巧的同时，还将教授他们如何摆放餐具等基本的餐桌礼仪。
• And yet as many as a quarter of our students aren't even finishing high school.
  然而我们甚至多大1／4的学生未能完成高中学业。
• She proceeds with how to tackle stairs ( on the toes) and the secrets of seductive hip-wiggling ( arm-swinging); I feel as if I am at a finishing school for femmes fatales.
  她接着又教我如何（用脚趾）对付台阶，以及充满诱惑力的扭臀（摆臂）秘诀；我感觉自己就好像置身于一所蛇蝎美女精修学校一样。
• With more students finishing high school, more are eligible to go to college.
  随着越来越多的学生完成高中学业，也就意味着越来越多的人拥有了上大学的资格。
• Well, I worked in several places after finishing school.
  喔，毕业后我在好几个地方干过活。
• The teacher told her, if she would not come now, she would have to come in the afternoon after finishing school.
  老师就告诉她，如果现在不来，那她就必须下午放学后来。
• After finishing high school in Turkey in 1971, he studied economics at the University of hull and for an MBA at Cass Business School in London.
  1971年，在土耳其完成高中学业后，他赴赫尔大学（universityofhull）攻读经济学，然后在伦敦卡斯商学院（cassbusinessschool）读mba。