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doctorate

/dok-ter-it/US // ˈdɒk tər ɪt //UK // (ˈdɒktərɪt, -trɪt) //

博士学位,博士,博士级,博士生

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of several academic degrees of the highest rank, as the Ph.D. or Ed.D., awarded by universities and some colleges for completing advanced work in graduate school or a professional school.
    • : an honorary degree conferring the title of doctor upon the recipient, as with the LL.D. degree.

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Examples

  • Annahita Nezami, a London psychologist, did her doctorate on the therapeutic value of the Overview Effect.

  • Darden transferred to NASA’s male-dominated engineering division and later earned an engineering doctorate.

  • I, and many of my colleagues, have a master’s degree, and also a doctorate.

  • When they’re a bit drunk one night in December, Harper, a journalist, asks Abby, who’s getting a doctorate in art history, to go home with her to meet her family over Christmas.

  • Judy, who has led the district since 2014, rose from a life sciences teacher to a principal to Emanuel’s superintendent, earning a doctorate in educational leadership and administration.

  • The “doctorate” Duke claims is from an anti-Semitic Ukranian “diploma mill” as described by the State Department.

  • Dr. Grenci obtained her doctorate in clinical sexology in 2007.

  • Now Hunter wanted to confer an honorary doctorate on me, and I needed to find the words to properly convey how honored I felt.

  • One old soldier is on the path to a doctorate in mathematics and another is a trained underwater welder.

  • Four bronze stars later, he earned a chemistry doctorate and joined the FBI.

  • Copernicus made his medical studies in Ferrara and Padua, and obtained his doctorate with honors from Ferrara.

  • He studied at the École Polytechnique and at the École des Mines, and later received his doctorate in mathematics in 1879.

  • She had already earned her doctorate, while I was still struggling with the tag ends of my thesis.

  • A brilliant mathematician, he had taken his doctorate without difficulty, and his thesis had even attracted some attention.

  • He might obtain the doctorate in both branches of law in ten years (Rashdall i. 221-222).