• n. 大學(xué)；綜合性大學(xué)；大學(xué)校舍

來自拉丁語universum, 所有，全人類，全世界，uni-, 一，-verse, 轉(zhuǎn)。即轉(zhuǎn)為一體的，原用于指全體教職員工，后指大學(xué)，比較college.

university

university: [14] The etymological notion underlying a university is that it denotes the ‘whole’ number of those belonging to it. The word comes via Old French universite from Latin ūniversitās, which was derived from ūniversus (source of English universe). This originally meant the ‘whole’, but in the postclassical period it was applied to guilds and other such associations, referring to the ‘totality’ of their membership. These included societies of teachers and students, from which the modern meaning of university emerged.
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university (n.)

c. 1300, "institution of higher learning," also "body of persons constituting a university," from Anglo-French université, Old French universite "universality; academic community" (13c.), from Medieval Latin universitatem (nominative universitas), "the whole, aggregate," in Late Latin "corporation, society," from universus "whole, entire" (see universe). In the academic sense, a shortening of universitas magistrorum et scholarium "community of masters and scholars;" superseded studium as the word for this. The Latin word also is the source of Spanish universidad, German universit?t, Russian universitet?, etc.

1. His beautifully illustrated book well attested his love of the university.

他那本帶有精美插圖的書見證了他對大學(xué)的熱愛。

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2. They had met by chance at university and finished up getting married.

他們在大學(xué)偶遇，最后結(jié)了婚。

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3. I gradually got rather disillusioned with the whole setup of the university.

漸漸地，我對大學(xué)的整個體制感到相當(dāng)失望。

來自柯林斯例句

4. As mentioned earlier, the University supplements this information with an interview.

如前所述，大學(xué)將通過面試對這一信息進(jìn)行補(bǔ)充。

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5. In 1973, the first Open University graduates received their degrees.

1973年，第一批開放大學(xué)的畢業(yè)生獲得了學(xué)位。

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