| 词汇 | prep-school |
| 释义 | prep school noun[ C or U ] uk /ˈprep ˌskuːl/ us /ˈprep ˌskuːl/ in the UK, a private school (= a school paid for by parents, not the government) for children, especially boys, between the ages of seven and 13, who will then usually go to public school(= a type of private secondary school): 预备学校（在英国通常指为进入公学作准备的私立学校，所收学生为7至13岁的儿童，尤指男孩;在美国指为11岁以上的孩子上大学作准备的私立中学） In the private sector they keep children at prep schools until the age of 13 before they move to secondary. I have three children in prep school in Hampstead. in the US, a private school for children over the age of eleven that prepares them to go to college: The point of the prep school was to get Jeff into a good college with a hockey team. My brother Bobby was in prep school in Connecticut. It was a prep school in the British sense, one of those many small private institutions in which boys were being prepared to go on to public schools. He is a former pupil of Hill House, the £9,000-a-year prep school Prince Charles went to. His baseball career began at a local prep school, Dean Academy, and continued on the freshman team at Harvard. The young Bush attended one of the nation's best prep schools in New England. Types of school academy alma mater alternative school business school centre of excellence charter school coeducational convent school elementary school grade school grant-maintained school preparatory school private private school reform school reformatory secondary school selective seminary special school prep school | American Dictionaryprep school noun us/ˈprep ˌskul/ short form ofpreparatory school Examples of prep schoolprep school He ran away from his prepschool, confused and unhappy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is precisely what the majority of parents who put their children into an independent prepschool will intend for their children. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Should it be spent in a prepschool? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have worked on other people's briefs in my time and this is supposed to be the "sixth form"of politics and not the"prepschool". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Some pupils pass from prepschool to public school at 12½ and some do not go until they are 14. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is possible to explain that a prepschool in one country is different from a prepschool in another. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Does he not realise that if less than half of prepschool pupils move to the state primary sector, he will save nothing? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have two sons at a prepschool where there are bumps of this nature every 20 yards up the drive. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I discussed it with my outgoing headmaster of my prepschool. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That would be too long to send a child of prepschool age for incarceration. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Now, we are talking about children of 8 years of age who, in our circles, are just leaving kindergarten and are just going to prepschool. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We will also consider using discretion where the parents of a child in a prepschool were given a promise of a place to the age of 13. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He aspired to be a soldier and attended a top military prepschool at age 11. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. While primarily a prepschool, it sometimes granted bachelor's degrees. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The main college is now a voluntary aided grammar school while the prepschool became independent. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. See all examples of prep school These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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