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reform school

/ri-fawrm-skool/US // rɪˈfɔrm ˌskul //

劳改学校,工读学校,感化院,改造学校

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : reformatory.

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Examples

  • Sympathetic docs The American Meme and This Is Paris—in which Hilton reflected on abuse she allegedly suffered at a series of residential reform schools—have added dimensions to her image, rescuing her from the realm of pop-culture caricatures.

  • The topics of the previous books were both deeply serious, tackling American slavery and a treacherous real-life reform school, respectively.

  • 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.