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academics

/ak-uh-dem-ik/US // ˌæk əˈdɛm ɪk //UK // (ˌækəˈdɛmɪk) //

学术界,学者,学术界人士,学界

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to a college, academy, school, or other educational institution, especially one for higher education: academic requirements.
    • : pertaining to areas of study that are not primarily vocational or applied, as the humanities or pure mathematics.
    • : theoretical or hypothetical; not practical, realistic, or directly useful: an academic question;an academic discussion of a matter already decided.
    • : learned or scholarly but lacking in worldliness, common sense, or practicality.
    • : conforming to set rules, standards, or traditions; conventional: academic painting.
    • : acquired by formal education, especially at a college or university: academic preparation for the ministry.
    • : Academic, of or relating to Academe or to the Platonic school of philosophy.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a student or teacher at a college or university.
    • : a person who is academic in background, attitudes, methods, etc.: He was by temperament an academic, concerned with books and the arts.
    • : Academic, a person who supports or advocates the Platonic school of philosophy.
    • : academics, the scholarly activities of a school or university, as classroom studies or research projects: more emphasis on academics and less on athletics.

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Examples

  • We knew that many academics today would consider our mission naïve.

  • She kept servants and, evidently, three slaves, and entertained academics and philosophers in an elite salon.

  • The media and academics love to portray these voters as the typical independent when they represent less than half of them.

  • Breman kept calling doctors and academics, but there were no answers to be found.

  • It would be an immediate object of, as academics often put it, “contestation.”

  • Tully, in his "Academics," introduces Varro himself giving us some light concerning the scope and design of those works.

  • They mean the realities of liberty and not the academics of theory.

  • If the sophisms of Pyrrho and of the Academics are what annoys (troubles), we must apply the remedy to them.

  • Margaret was the younger, somewhat delicate daughter of a family of rather strident academics.

  • I noticed this wound very briefly and it was a matter of academics as to how he sustained the wound.