finishing school

英 [ˈfɪnɪʃɪŋ skuːl]

美 [ˈfɪnɪʃɪŋ skuːl]

n.  精修学校(为富家女子学习上流社会行为所办的私立学校)

牛津词典

noun

• 精修学校（为富家女子学习上流社会行为所办的私立学校）
  a private school where young women from rich families are taught how to behave in fashionable society

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR (教授有钱人家或上流社会年轻女孩礼仪及其他社交技能的)女子精修学校，淑女学堂
  Afinishing schoolis a private school where rich or upper-class young women are taught manners and other social skills that are considered to be suitable for them.
  1. ...a Swiss finishing school.
     一所瑞士女子精修学校
  2. ...where the Princess of Wales attended finishing school.
     威尔士王妃上精修学校的地方

英英释义

noun

• a private school for girls that emphasizes training in cultural and social activities

双语例句

• Of these, 78 percent immediately entered college after finishing high school.
  其中，78%的人在毕业后就立即进入大学。
• So I continued to build my life, keeping a job, paying rent, and eventually finishing high school.
  所以我继续着我的生活，工作、付房租，直到最后完成高中学业。
• If a teenager already has the knowledge and the smarts to graduate from high school, according to this logic, he doesn't need to waste his time actually finishing high school.
  如果一个十几岁的青少年已经具备从高中毕业的知识与头脑，那么依据这种逻辑，他就不必把时间浪费在实实在在读完高中上。
• Other students hope to continue studying after finishing school and to go to university.
  其他的学生希望在毕业后继续学习并且去上大学。
• Results: The students have notable problems before finishing school, the girl-students more than the boy-students, the students from countryside more than ones from city.
  结果中等卫校学生毕业前有显著的心理问题，男生多于女生，农村学生多于城市学生。
• And yet as many as a quarter of our students aren't even finishing high school.
  然而我们甚至多大1／4的学生未能完成高中学业。
• To introduce them to meet the needs of society after their finishing school, it's a necessity for universities and colleges to establish the course of "Interpersonal Relationships".
  为使他们踏入社会后能够尽快适应社会的需要，高等学校开设《人际关系学》课程是相当必要的。
• Only 49% of graduates from the classes of 2009 to 2011 had found a full-time job within a year of finishing school, compared with 73% for students who graduated in the three years prior.
  在2009年至2011年期间毕业的大学生中，只有49%的人在毕业一年内找到全职工作，2006至2008年期间毕业的大学生的这一比例为73%。
• At what is being billed as the world's first finishing school for gentlemen, learning how to set the cutlery can be just as tricky as the fly fishing.
  日前，英国出现了第一家男士家政学校。学校在教会男士掌握垂钓和捕猎技巧的同时，还将教授他们如何摆放餐具等基本的餐桌礼仪。
• The teacher told her, if she would not come now, she would have to come in the afternoon after finishing school.
  老师就告诉她，如果现在不来，那她就必须下午放学后来。