academy

• n. 學院；研究院；學會；專科院校

來自雅典城外一樹林地名，哲學家柏拉圖講學之所，後代指學術。地名來自雅典英雄Akademos的名字,傳說中他幫助海倫兄長解救了古希臘第一美女海倫而獲贈此地。

academy

academy: [16] Borrowed either from French académie or from Latin acadēmia, academy goes back ultimately to Greek Akadēmíā, the name of the place in Athens where the philosopher Plato (c. 428–347 BC) taught. Traditionally thought of as a grove (‘the groves of Academe’), this was in fact more of an enclosed piece of ground, a garden or park; it was named after the Attic mythological hero Akadēmos or Hekadēmus. In its application to the philosophical doctrines of Plato, English academy goes back directly to its Latin source, but the more general meanings ‘college, place of training’ derive from French.

academy (n.)

late 15c., "the classical Academy," from French Académie, from Latin Academia, from Greek Akademeia "grove of Akademos," a legendary Athenian of the Trojan War tales (his name apparently means "of a silent district"), whose estate, six stadia from Athens, was the enclosure where Plato taught his school.

The A[cademy], the Garden, the Lyceum, the Porch, the Tub, are names used for the five chief schools of Greek philosophy, their founders, adherents, & doctrines: the A., Plato, the Platonists & Platonism; the Garden, Epicurus, the Epicureans, & Epicureanism; the Lyceum, Aristotle, the Aristotelians, & Aristotelianism; the Porch, Zeno, the Stoics, & Stoicism; the Tub, Antisthenes, the Cynics, & Cynicism. [Fowler]

Sense broadened 16c. into "any school or training place." Academy awards (1941) so called for their distributor, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

1. Neil Howorth, director of the academy, tried to calm things down.

研究院主任尼爾·豪沃思力圖平息事態。

來自柯林斯例句

2. By 1936 she was exhibiting at the Royal Academy.

到1936年她已在皇家藝術學院展出作品。

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3. Father Auberon's Academy Club positively heaved with dashing young men.

父親奧伯龍的“學院俱樂部”裏真的是有為青年濟濟一堂。

來自柯林斯例句

4. The Academy Awards appear to validate his career.

奧斯卡金像獎似乎是對他事業的肯定。

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5. the Royal Academy of Music

皇家音樂學院

來自《權威詞典》