faculty
n. 才能, 能力, 全体教员, (大学的)系 [医] 能力, [大学]院系
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教材释义与例句
科，系；能力；全体教员
释义与例句
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The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.
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A division of a university.
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She transferred from the Faculty of Science to the Faculty of Medicine.
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3.
An ability, power, or skill.
He lived until he reached the age of 90 with most of his faculties intact.
If I will aske meere Philosophers, what the soule is, I shall finde amongst them, that will tell me, it is nothing, but the temperament and harmony, and just and equall composition of the Elements in the body, which produces all those faculties which we ascribe to the soule […]
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An authority, power, or privilege conferred by a higher authority.
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A licence to make alterations to a church.
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The members of a profession.
词汇关系
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From Middle English faculte (“power, property”), from Old French faculte, from Latin facultas (“capability, ability, skill, abundance, plenty, stock, goods, property; in Medieval Latin also a body of teachers”), another form of facilitas (“easiness, facility, etc.”), from facul, another form of facilis (“easy, facile”); see facile. Doublet of facility.
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