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

• 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。
• What makes you so sure I went to prep school?
  你凭什么认定我是预科生？
• Other benefits of going to a prep school include top-notch facilities and extracurricular activities.
  在预科学校就读的其他好处还包括一流的设备和丰富的课外活动。位于新罕布什尔州的St。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Time spent on prep time high school students spend much less than junior highschool students.
  在预习花费的时间上，高中生花费的时间要远远少于初中生。
• 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。
• We used to do this sort of thing all the time at prep school.
  我们上学的时候也经常做这种事。
• Kobayashi's reputation has spread so far that one Japanese prep school has hired him to teach teenagers to think for themselves.
  小林的名声很响，日本的一座大学预科学院甚至聘请他来教学生们如何进行独立思考。