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

• Male teachers often use their 'erotic capital' when dealing with female members of staff, according to the head of a leading prep school.
  一所一流预备学校的校长表示，男老师跟女同事打交道时经常运用自己的魅力资本。
• I sent her to a nice prep school back east.
  我她送到东部一所一流的寄宿学校。
• He left Los Angeles three years ago to go to prep powerhouse Oak Hill Academy, and was one of the top high school recruits.
  三年前，他离开洛杉矶，前往强大的奥克山私立高级中学并成为其高中篮球队里的最好的新手之一。
• 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。
• EXAMPLE: My younger brother is taking several difficult college prep courses in high school that he hopes it will help him pass his university entrance examinations.
  我弟弟在高中学习几门很难的大学预备课程，他希望这能帮助他通过高考。
• 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。
• I had a headmaster just like him in prep school.
  我在预校就有个教官像他。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。