college, university, institute, school, academy

名詞 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.
   老師幫助他上完了中學，但他無法完成大學的學業(yè)。
2. Professor Gravity now seems to have become an unwanted fixture in the college.
   格雷維蒂教授現在好像成了學院里的累贅。
3. He had passed the entrance examination of the college.
   他已經通過了大學的入學考試。
4. She and I were contemporaries at college.
   她和我在學院里是同學。
5. He is studying in the theological college.
   他在那所神學院學習。
6. She is a member of the Royal College of Nursing.
   她是皇家護士協(xié)會的會員。
7. He is at law college.
   他在法學院讀書。

col.lege

n.Abbr. col.,coll.（名詞）縮寫 col.,coll.

An institution of higher learning that grants the bachelor`s degree in liberal arts or science or both.
學院：能授予人文或自然科學學士學位的高等院校
An undergraduate division or school of a university offering courses and granting degrees in a particular field.
分科（單科）大學：在一個特殊領域開設課程或授予學位的分科或單科大學
A school, sometimes but not always a university, offering special instruction in professional or technical subjects.
?？茖W校：對職業(yè)或技術項目提供特殊咨詢的學校，并不一定是一個綜合大學
The students, faculty, and administration of such a school or institution.
學校，學院：總指這樣一個學校或學院的學生、教師和行政機構
The building or buildings occupied by such a school or institution.
校舍：這樣一個學?；驅W院的建筑或建筑群
Chiefly British A self-governing society of scholars for study or instruction, incorporated within a university.
【多用于英國】 自治組織：一個關于研究或咨詢的學者自治組織，通常是學院內的法定組織
An institution in France for secondary education that is not supported by the state.
私立高等學院：法國的非由政府資助設立的高等學院

A body of persons having a common purpose or shared duties:
協(xié)會：有著共同目標和責任的群體：
例句：
a college of surgeons.
外科醫(yī)生協(xié)會

An electoral college.
總統(tǒng)選舉團
A body of clerics living together on an endowment.
長老院：靠基金生活在一起的教士團
n.attributive.（定語名詞）
Often used to modify another noun:
通常修飾另外一個名詞：
例句：
college courses; college faculty.
學院課程；學院教師

來源：
Middle English
中古英語
from Old French
源自 古法語
from Latin collôgium [association] * see collegium
源自 拉丁語 collôgium [聯盟] *參見 collegium