college

college, university, institute, school, academy

名词 college:

1. the body of faculty and students of a college
2. an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university
3. British slang for prison
4. a complex of buildings in which an institution of higher education is housed

1. The teacher helped him through high school, but he couldn't cut the buck in college.
   老师帮助他上完了中学，但他无法完成大学的学业。
2. Professor Gravity now seems to have become an unwanted fixture in the college.
   格雷维蒂教授现在好像成了学院里的累赘。
3. He had passed the entrance examination of the college.
   他已经通过了大学的入学考试。
4. She and I were contemporaries at college.
   她和我在学院里是同学。
5. He is studying in the theological college.
   他在那所神学院学习。
6. She is a member of the Royal College of Nursing.
   她是皇家护士协会的会员。
7. He is at law college.
   他在法学院读书。

col.lege

n.Abbr. col.,coll.（名词）缩写 col.,coll.

An institution of higher learning that grants the bachelor`s degree in liberal arts or science or both.
学院：能授予人文或自然科学学士学位的高等院校
An undergraduate division or school of a university offering courses and granting degrees in a particular field.
分科（单科）大学：在一个特殊领域开设课程或授予学位的分科或单科大学
A school, sometimes but not always a university, offering special instruction in professional or technical subjects.
专科学校：对职业或技术项目提供特殊咨询的学校，并不一定是一个综合大学
The students, faculty, and administration of such a school or institution.
学校，学院：总指这样一个学校或学院的学生、教师和行政机构
The building or buildings occupied by such a school or institution.
校舍：这样一个学校或学院的建筑或建筑群
Chiefly British A self-governing society of scholars for study or instruction, incorporated within a university.
【多用于英国】 自治组织：一个关于研究或咨询的学者自治组织，通常是学院内的法定组织
An institution in France for secondary education that is not supported by the state.
私立高等学院：法国的非由政府资助设立的高等学院

A body of persons having a common purpose or shared duties:
协会：有着共同目标和责任的群体：
例句：
a college of surgeons.
外科医生协会

An electoral college.
总统选举团
A body of clerics living together on an endowment.
长老院：靠基金生活在一起的教士团
n.attributive.（定语名词）
Often used to modify another noun:
通常修饰另外一个名词：
例句：
college courses; college faculty.
学院课程；学院教师

来源：
Middle English
中古英语
from Old French
源自 古法语
from Latin collôgium [association] * see collegium
源自 拉丁语 collôgium [联盟] *参见 collegium