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

• Must be like some finishing school.
  必须要等我学校毕业以后。
• Since he found no understanding of his music talents in his family, after finishing school Darren decided to study medicine seriously-be either a vet or a teacher.
  他的音乐才华还未被家人发掘，当他完成学业，他想认真地读一读医药，他想成为兽医或者教师。
• We have to go on learning new things and skills after finishing school.
  完成学业之后我们还得继续学习新的事物。
• 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%。
• I got married at 19 after I completed finishing school at the chandlerschool for women.
  我从女子精修学校ChandlerSchoolforWomen毕业后，19岁就结婚了。
• Accusing her of displaying a staggering lack of grace, she used her to consider attending a finishing school.
  在指责她举止不优雅后她甚至建议她去女子精修学校学习。
• 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。
• It's not just government bureaucrats who are seeking out polish from the new school, which in effect combines elements of a finishing school with business manners for women.
  到这所新学校来提升修养的不仅仅是政府工作人员，因为这所学校也将女性商业礼仪融入了其精修课程中。
• After finishing high school in Turkey in 1971, he studied economics at the University of hull and for an MBA at Cass Business School in London.
  1971年，在土耳其完成高中学业后，他赴赫尔大学（universityofhull）攻读经济学，然后在伦敦卡斯商学院（cassbusinessschool）读mba。
• He had helped Mother to see me when she was finishing school in New Orleans.
  母亲在新奥尔良上学时，他曾帮助母亲回来看望我。