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faculties

/fak-uhl-tee/US // ˈfæk əl ti //UK // (ˈfækəltɪ) //

院系,学系,学院,学科

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural fac·ul·ties.

    • : an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
    • : one of the powers of the mind, as memory, reason, or speech: Though very sick, he is in full possession of all his faculties.
    • : an inherent capability of the body: the faculties of sight and hearing.
    • : exceptional ability or aptitude: a president with a faculty for management.
    • : Education. the entire teaching and administrative force of a university, college, or school.one of the departments of learning, as theology, medicine, or law, in a university.the teaching body, sometimes with the students, in any of these departments.
    • : the members of a learned profession: the medical faculty.
    • : a power or privilege conferred by the state, a superior, etc.: The police were given the faculty to search the building.
    • : Ecclesiastical. a dispensation, license, or authorization.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounability, skill
Synonyms
adroitness灵巧,精通,熟练程度,熟练度aptitude性向,材性,资质,能力aptness合适性,适切性,适宜性,适度bent弯曲的,弯曲,弯的,弯弯曲曲capability能力,性能,功能,功能性capacity能力,容量,容积率,容貌cleverness聪明才智,聪明,聪明程度,聪明度dexterity灵活性,灵巧性,灵巧,敏捷性facility设施flair天赋,天资,天赋异禀,天分forte懿德,懿旨,懿德公司,懿律genius天才,天才的,天赋,天才的人gift礼物,礼品,馈赠,赠品instinct本能,本能的,直觉,本能地intelligence智能化,智能,智能化方面knack诀窍,窍门,技巧leaning倾斜的,倾斜,倾斜度,倾斜性nose鼻子,鼻腔,鼻部,鼻腔内peculiarity特异性,独特之处,特殊性,独特的地方penchant癖好,嗜好,爱好者,偏爱pistol手枪,手槍,枪支,手持枪power权力,功率,电源,动力predilection偏爱,倾向性,偏好,偏向proclivity倾向性,倾向于,倾向propensity倾向性,倾向,趋势,强度property财产,属性,物业,财物quality质量,品质,质量问题,质量方面readiness准备好了,准备就绪,准备好,准备reason原因,理由,原因是,缘由sense意义,感觉,感官,意识strength强度,力量,实力,优势talent人才,人才培养,人才济济turn变成,转弯,变成了,转变wits智慧,聪明才智,机智,聪明knowing way around绕行,绕道而行,绕行的方法,绕行的方式right stuff正确的东西,对的东西,右边的东西,正确的事情what it takes需要什么,需要做什么,所需的条件,需要的东西

Examples

  • “Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties,” by which he meant the need to find out what happens next.

  • It would be something of an insult to his amazing mind to suggest he lacks those critical faculties.

  • What is it about nostalgia that so effectively scrambles our evaluative faculties?

  • She was still recovering her verbal faculties, but she was able to answer when he asked about a bracelet he saw on her wrist.

  • To be a fan of a brutal sport like football is to put your moral faculties on hold.

  • The evening previous to his death he was walking about the farm, in the full possession of all his faculties of mind and body.

  • HE ordered a lunch which he thought the girl would like, with wine to revive the faculties that he knew must be failing.

  • The sharpened faculties have something of a lawyer's quickness in detecting a flaw in the indictment.

  • But the continual drafts had kept ever in advance of the receipts, draining the exchequer—crippling its faculties.

  • The words were a talisman on the benumbed faculties of Louis; he hastened forward, and threw himself into the carriage.