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freshman

/fresh-muhn/US // ˈfrɛʃ mən //

大一学生,大一新生,新生,新人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural fresh·men.

    • : a student in the first year of the course at a university, college, or high school.
    • : a novice; beginner.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or characteristic of a freshman: to outgrow one's freshman attitudes.
    • : lacking seniority or experience; junior: a freshman senator.
    • : required of or suitable for freshmen: freshman courses.
    • : initial; first: This is my freshman year with the company.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • There’s really no reason to call a freshman senator who had just been sworn in weeks earlier and has no real legislative heft if your intent is to talk about the riot.

  • Let’s say a child of mine goes off to college, they’re a freshman, and I want to know how they’re doing, like really how they’re doing — emotionally, academically, socially.

  • A freshman representative with little apparent appetite for policy or coalition-building, Greene wasn’t likely to wield much legislative power in the House.

  • Mendelsohn is a classics professor at Bard College in New York, and when the book opens, his 81-year-old dad, Jay, has just decided to audit his freshman course on The Odyssey.

  • In the statement on Greene, first reported by the Hill, McConnell did not mention the freshman lawmaker by name but listed a series of actions that describe her pattern of inflammatory behavior.

  • But the show is inoffensively good, which is high praise in a pretty terrible year for freshman TV series.

  • “There was a lot of stuff that I had never really thought about before,” freshman Thomas Long said.

  • More than 40 percent of incoming freshman said that a campus visit and social activities affected their choice.

  • Despite performing in a respectable amount of sketches for a SNL freshman throughout the season, her contract was not renewed.

  • “Ted Cruz, Team Player” is a twist few saw coming from the freshman who has made too many enemies to count in Washington.

  • The folks that know it all are the squabs, chuckled Bobby, referring to the freshman class.

  • When I was a freshman, there entered a woman over fifty, with perfectly white hair.

  • It was, perhaps, the sympathy in her tone that urged the instructor to confide her trouble to a strange girl—a freshman, at that!

  • The other Briarwood girls were the only members of the freshman class Ruth was likely to be intimate with for some days.

  • But for a freshman to show sufficient athletic training to make any of the first teams, would almost seem impossible.