faculty
柯林斯词典
1. N-COUNT Your faculties are your physical and mental abilities. 机能
He was drunk and not in control of his faculties. 他喝醉了，控制不了他的各项机能。
2. N-VAR A faculty is all the teaching staff of a university or college, or of one department. 全体教员[美国英语]
The faculty agreed on a change in the requirements. 全体教员同意改变要求。
How can faculty improve their teaching so as to encourage creativity?
全体教员怎样才能改进教学以便激发创造力？
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faculty /ˈfækəltɪ/ (faculties)
剑桥词典
- He's applied for a job in the history faculty.
- See the faculty website for more details .
- The faculty has decided to close the common room .
- She received a generous research grant from the faculty.
- Work has begun on the construction of the new faculty building .
faculty noun (ABILITY)
[ 可数名词：有复数形式的名词 通常作为复数使用的名词 ]a natural ability to hear , see , think , move , etc.
官能，机能
Even at the age of 100, she still had all her faculties. 甚至在百岁高龄时，她的一切身体机能仍然保持正常。
Is he in command /possession of all his faculties (= can he still hear , speak , see , and think clearly )? 他身体一切机能均正常吗？
[ 可数名词：有复数形式的名词 ]
a special ability to do a particular thing
能力，才能
She has a faculty for inspiring confidence in people . 她具有激发他人信心的能力。
Studying has certainly sharpened my critical faculties (= taught me to think carefully about things using my judgment ). 学习的确增强了我的分析判断能力。
例句
faculty noun (IN A COLLEGE)
[ 可数名词：有复数形式的名词 ]a group of departments in a college that specialize in a particular subject or group of subjects
（高等院校的）系，院
the Psychology/Law Faculty 心理学系/法学院
UK the Faculty of Science 理学院
[ 可数名词：有复数形式的名词 or 单数名词 ] US
the people who teach in a department in a college
（高等院校中院系的）全体教师
He has been a faculty member at the college for 20 years . 返回 faculty