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alumnus

/uh-luhm-nuhs/US // əˈlʌm nəs //UK // (əˈlʌmnəs) //

校友,校友会,学友,校友会成员

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n.名词 noun
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    plural a·lum·ni [uh-luhm-nahy]. /əˈlʌm naɪ/.

    • : a graduate or former student of a specific school, college, or university, especially a male.
    • : a former associate, employee, member, or the like: He invited all the alumni of the library staff to the party.

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Examples

  • Frustration about the uncertain future also vexed some alumni.

  • Very few campuses had the resources to extend credit to students in the hopes that alumni would earn enough after graduation to pay back the cost of earning their degrees.

  • Those alumni all graduated on time from high school, most to study at a two- or four-year college, and others to join the military or begin trade work.

  • Thousands of law school alumni and students push for disbarment of Sens.

  • One of the important things that I would like to do as dean is to continue to engage alumni.

  • She says she met Cosby, a Temple alumnus and big-time donor to the university, in November 2002.

  • A former House Budget chairman and Fox News alumnus, Kasich was a libertarian leaning fiscal conservative before it was cool.

  • The best known was Brotherhood alumnus Sayyid Qutb, whom the Egyptian state executed in 1966.

  • The celebrated nanny college counts as its most famous (if fictional) alumnus Mary Poppins.

  • Hayes was very much a creature of the left, a proud alumnus of The Nation and In These Times.

  • Alumnus, al-um′nus, n. one educated at a college is called an alumnus of it:—pl.

  • It is a recollection blended of many feelings, that which the recurring Commencement brings to the alumnus.

  • The University, however, shares the attachment of the alumnus.

  • He didn't look like a Dumbarton Oaks product: I thought he was more likely an alumnus of some private detective agency.

  • Some high school alumnus in whose heart there is appreciation of Rome's gift to us might present a book to his Alma Mater.