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

At what is being billed as the world's first finishing school for gentlemen, learning how to set the cutlery can be just as tricky as the fly fishing.
日前，英国出现了第一家男士家政学校。学校在教会男士掌握垂钓和捕猎技巧的同时，还将教授他们如何摆放餐具等基本的餐桌礼仪。
Must be like some finishing school.
必须要等我学校毕业以后。
So I continued to build my life, keeping a job, paying rent, and eventually finishing high school.
所以我继续着我的生活，工作、付房租，直到最后完成高中学业。
Other students hope to continue studying after finishing school and to go to university.
其他的学生希望在毕业后继续学习并且去上大学。
My son was finishing high school, and I was looking forward to my daughter's return from college for the summer.
儿子即将高中毕业，我也在期盼着女儿从大学回来过暑假。
With more students finishing high school, more are eligible to go to college.
随着越来越多的学生完成高中学业，也就意味着越来越多的人拥有了上大学的资格。
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。
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。
Rafa Mtz's main goal is finishing high school and getting into a university.
RafaMtz的主要目标是完成高中学业进入大学。
The teacher told her, if she would not come now, she would have to come in the afternoon after finishing school.
老师就告诉她，如果现在不来，那她就必须下午放学后来。