finishing school

英 [ˈfɪnɪʃɪŋ skuːl]

美 [ˈfɪnɪʃɪŋ skuːl]

n.  精修学校(为富家女子学习上流社会行为所办的私立学校)

牛津词典

noun

• 精修学校（为富家女子学习上流社会行为所办的私立学校）
  a private school where young women from rich families are taught how to behave in fashionable society

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR (教授有钱人家或上流社会年轻女孩礼仪及其他社交技能的)女子精修学校，淑女学堂
  Afinishing schoolis a private school where rich or upper-class young women are taught manners and other social skills that are considered to be suitable for them.
  1. ...a Swiss finishing school.
     一所瑞士女子精修学校
  2. ...where the Princess of Wales attended finishing school.
     威尔士王妃上精修学校的地方

英英释义

noun

• a private school for girls that emphasizes training in cultural and social activities

双语例句

• Must be like some finishing school.
  必须要等我学校毕业以后。
• He had helped Mother to see me when she was finishing school in New Orleans.
  母亲在新奥尔良上学时，他曾帮助母亲回来看望我。
• So, Hsieh decided to turn his life around by finishing high school, college and a master's degree program.
  因此，谢智谋决定改变他自己的命运，继续要完成高中，大学和硕士学位课程。
• After finishing high school in Turkey in 1971, he studied economics at the University of hull and for an MBA at Cass Business School in London.
  1971年，在土耳其完成高中学业后，他赴赫尔大学（universityofhull）攻读经济学，然后在伦敦卡斯商学院（cassbusinessschool）读mba。
• If a teenager already has the knowledge and the smarts to graduate from high school, according to this logic, he doesn't need to waste his time actually finishing high school.
  如果一个十几岁的青少年已经具备从高中毕业的知识与头脑，那么依据这种逻辑，他就不必把时间浪费在实实在在读完高中上。
• And yet as many as a quarter of our students aren't even finishing high school.
  然而我们甚至多大1／4的学生未能完成高中学业。
• I'm running a fighting ship, not a finishing school!
  我主持的是战舰，而不是渔民学校！
• She proceeds with how to tackle stairs ( on the toes) and the secrets of seductive hip-wiggling ( arm-swinging); I feel as if I am at a finishing school for femmes fatales.
  她接着又教我如何（用脚趾）对付台阶，以及充满诱惑力的扭臀（摆臂）秘诀；我感觉自己就好像置身于一所蛇蝎美女精修学校一样。
• It's not just government bureaucrats who are seeking out polish from the new school, which in effect combines elements of a finishing school with business manners for women.
  到这所新学校来提升修养的不仅仅是政府工作人员，因为这所学校也将女性商业礼仪融入了其精修课程中。
• Results: The students have notable problems before finishing school, the girl-students more than the boy-students, the students from countryside more than ones from city.
  结果中等卫校学生毕业前有显著的心理问题，男生多于女生，农村学生多于城市学生。