sabbatical
[sə'bætɪkl]
- adj. 安息日的
- n. 休假（美国某些大学给大学教师每七年一次的）
TEM8
sabbatical 公休假来自 Sabbath,休息，安息，-ical,形容词后缀。现词义缩写自 sabbatical year,休息年，用于指 大学教师进行学术研究或旅游的假期。
- sabbatical (adj.)
- 1640s, "of or suitable for the Sabbath," from Latin sabbaticus, from Greek sabbatikos "of the Sabbath" (see Sabbath). Noun meaning "a year's absence granted to researchers" (originally one year in seven, to university professors) is from 1934, short for sabbatical year, etc., first recorded 1886 (the thing itself is attested from 1880, at Harvard), related to sabbatical year (1590s) in Mosaic law, the seventh year, in which land was to remain untilled and debtors and slaves released.
- 1. He's been on sabbatical writing a novel.
- 他一直在休假写一部小说。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. to take a year's sabbatical
- 享受一年的公休假
来自《权威词典》
- 3. He spent his sabbatical year doing research in Moscow.
- 他花了他的教师休假年在莫斯科做研究.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. Professor Robins is on sabbatical this year.
- 罗宾士教授今年在度他的休假年.
来自辞典例句
- 5. I've devoted my sabbatical to greenhouse trace gases.
- 我为了这温室示踪气体已经牺牲了我的休息日.
来自电影对白
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