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finishing school

精修学校,终结学校,精修学院,精修班

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a private school, usually at the high school or junior college level, that teaches young women social graces and prepares them for life in society.

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  • Izzard plays a teacher, Thomas Miller, who takes a job at Augusta-Victoria College, a finishing school in the coastal town of Bexhill-on-Sea that’s sort of a cross-cultural experiment between England and Germany.

  • Gibbs began as “part finishing school and part party school,” where girls “could escape for a year between college and getting married and let their hair down.”

  • Although Huckabee's condescending tone - like that of an elementary school history teacher - makes it difficult to take seriously.

  • A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.

  • And then I did teachers all throughout elementary school and junior high for my friends.

  • Author J.K. Rowling says all religions are present at her beloved wizard school—except Wiccans.

  • One was a Quaker school, whose name he can no longer recall, in upstate New York.

  • All my musical studies till now have been a mere going to school, a preparation for him.

  • I ask for half a dozen projectors or so in every school, and for a well-stocked storehouse of films.

  • He was the most distinguished representative of the English school of composition, and was knighted in 1842.

  • Y was a Youth, that did not love school; Z was a Zany, a poor harmless fool.

  • The child who has got languages from its governess, therefore, marks time—that is to say, wastes time in these subjects at school.