sabbatical
[s?'b?t?kl]
- adj. 安息日的
- n. 休假（美國某些大學給大學教師每七年一次的）
TEM8暢通詞匯
詞態變化
復數:?sabbaticals;
中文詞源
sabbatical 公休假
來自 Sabbath,休息，安息，-ical,形容詞后綴。現詞義縮寫自 sabbatical year,休息年，用于指 大學教師進行學術研究或旅游的假期。
英文詞源
- 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.
雙語例句
- 1. He's been on sabbatical writing a novel.
- 他一直在休假寫一部小說。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. to take a year's sabbatical
- 享受一年的公休假
來自《權威詞典》
- 3. He spent his sabbatical year doing research in Moscow.
- 他花了他的教師休假年在莫斯科做研究.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. Professor Robins is on sabbatical this year.
- 羅賓士教授今年在度他的休假年.
來自辭典例句
- 5. I've devoted my sabbatical to greenhouse trace gases.
- 我為了這溫室示蹤氣體已經犧牲了我的休息日.
來自電影對白