prep school

英 [ˈprep skuːl]

美 [ˈprep skuːl]

n.  预备学校(英国为11或13岁以下的儿童开办的私立学校); 预备学校，预科学校(美国为准备升入大学者开设的私立学校)

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柯林斯词典

• 预备学校（英国为11或13岁以下的儿童开办的私立学校）
  In Britain, aprep schoolis a private school where children are educated until the age of 11 or 13.
• N-VAR 预备学校，预科学校（美国为准备升入大学者而设的私立学校）
  In the United States, aprep schoolis a private school for students who intend to go to college after they leave.
  1. ...an exclusive prep school in Washington.
     华盛顿一所贵族预科学校

英英释义

noun

• a private secondary school
  Synonym:preparatory school

双语例句

• And these qualities matter more to ultimate success than SAT prep courses in high school or what college your children go to.
  这些品质对于孩子最终的成功至关重要，远远超过高中的SAT预科课程和读哪所的大学。
• What makes you so sure I went to prep school?
  你凭什么认定我是预科生？
• Coming from a high quality college prep high school, most of the general education classes have been very easy but the upper level engineering classes have been very difficult.
  因为学生都来自高质量的高中预科学生，大多数的普通教育课程是非常简单的，但是较高水平的工程类课程是非常难的。
• I had applied to the academy twice before I was finally accepted to the prep school, an education that would put me on my way to a commission from Annapolis.
  在被预备役学院最终接受之前我曾经两次申请，一种可以把我从安娜波里斯转回正途的教育。
• But in the end, the real value of a prep school education is more than just getting into Harvard.
  然而最后我们得出的结论是，预科学校的教育的真正价值决不仅止于让孩子进入类似哈佛的名牌大学。
• He grew up working-class in Manhattan and was always drawn to the prep school mystique.
  他成长于曼哈顿的工人阶级，总是被预科神秘性所吸引。
• EXAMPLE: My younger brother is taking several difficult college prep courses in high school that he hopes it will help him pass his university entrance examinations.
  我弟弟在高中学习几门很难的大学预备课程，他希望这能帮助他通过高考。
• I had a headmaster just like him in prep school.
  我在预校就有个教官像他。
• One of my most vivid memories is of coming back West from prep school and later from college at Christmas time.
  我记忆中最鲜明的景象之一就是每年圣诞节从预备学校，以及后来从大学回到西部的情景。
• Just two days before she killed herself, Val gave me a gift, a token of congratulations on being accepted to the Naval Academy prep school in Rhode Island.
  就在她自己的两天前，威尔给了我一个礼物，对我被罗得岛海军预备学院接受以示祝贺。