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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• I'm running a fighting ship, not a finishing school!
  我主持的是战舰，而不是渔民学校！
• 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。
• Well, I worked in several places after finishing school.
  喔，毕业后我在好几个地方干过活。
• 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。
• 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%。
• 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。