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

• He had helped Mother to see me when she was finishing school in New Orleans.
  母亲在新奥尔良上学时，他曾帮助母亲回来看望我。
• 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。
• We have to go on learning new things and skills after finishing school.
  完成学业之后我们还得继续学习新的事物。
• 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。
• I'm running a fighting ship, not a finishing school!
  我主持的是战舰，而不是渔民学校！
• My son was finishing high school, and I was looking forward to my daughter's return from college for the summer.
  儿子即将高中毕业，我也在期盼着女儿从大学回来过暑假。
• 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。
• 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。
• If a teenager already has the knowledge and the smarts to graduate from high school, according to this logic, he doesn't need to waste his time actually finishing high school.
  如果一个十几岁的青少年已经具备从高中毕业的知识与头脑，那么依据这种逻辑，他就不必把时间浪费在实实在在读完高中上。
• Must be like some finishing school.
  必须要等我学校毕业以后。