Academic
[ækə'demɪk] or [,ækə'dɛmɪk]
解释:
(adj.) hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result; 'an academic discussion'; 'an academic question' .
(adj.) marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects .
(adj.) associated with academia or an academy; 'the academic curriculum'; 'academic gowns' .
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解释:
(a.) Alt. of Academical
(n.) One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.
(n.) A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.
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同义词及近义词：
a. [1]. Scholastic, literary, lettered.
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解释:
n. a Platonic philosopher: a student in a college.
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例句:
- Moreover, the methods used for effective teaching of the languages were well developed; the inertia of academic custom was on their side. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- They put the stamp of their genius on certain inhuman practices, and of course it has been the part of the academic mind to imitate them ever since. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Politics, religion, science are subject to it,--in politics we call it conservative, in religion orthodox, in science we describe it as academic. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- He retired from academic life, and was elected Democratic Governor of New Jersey in 1910. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- For the academic intelligence abstract and abstruse mathematics are tonic and an end in themselves. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Popular terms denoting knowledge have always retained the connection with ability in action lost by academic philosophies. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- The encampment which preceded the commencement of academic studies was very wearisome and uninteresting. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The proverbial separation of town and gown, the cultivation of academic seclusion, operate in this direction. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Having obtained from this clerk a direction to the academic grove in question, I set out, the same afternoon, to visit my old schoolfellow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
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