semester

英[sɪˈmestə(r)]美[sɪˈmestər]

n.（尤指美国的大专院校的）学期，半学年；

复数：semesters;

例句

I’m going to take a course in applied mathematics this semester.我这学期打算学习应用数学课程。

In the new semester, we last will learn the tenses of English.在新的学期里, 我们终于要学英语中的时态部分了.

Tom has taken five courses this semester, including French. I think he is bitting offchew.汤姆这个学期选修了五门课, 还包括法语, 我想他是有些好高骛远了.

I have 9 required courses and 3 electives this semester.我这个学期有9门必修课,3门选修课.

He had three minors this semester.这学期他有三门副修科目.

A student will probably attend four or five courses during each semester.每个学生一学期可能要修四五门课程.

Each student is expected to wait at table for one week each semester.每学期每个学生都要在餐厅服务一周。

同义词解析

以下这两个名词均有"学期" 的意思

term和semester作"学期"解时，其主要差别在于使用地区的不同。term多用于英国，semester主要在美国、德国使用。

英语四级真题

In some departments, either the chairman or the director of graduate studies serves for at least the first semester as a new student adviser.

As a result, their math grades overtook those of the other students by the end of the first semester—and the gap between the two groups continued to widen during the two years we followed them.

They're also expensive, especially when you factor in the average college student's limited budget, typically costing hundreds of dollars every semester.

The biggest problem with traditional print textbooks is that they cost hundreds of dollars every semester.

they cost hundreds of dollars every semester.

An Indiana University study found that interracial roommates were three times as likely as two white roommates to no longer live together by the end of the semester.

The name Jill Watson will, of course, change to something else next semester.

英语六级真题

on average, only 12 to 14 hours a week studying and many were skating through their semesters without doing a significant amount of reading and writing.

One of five students arrives at college today with Advanced Placement (AP) credits amounting to a semester or more of college level work.

They at the college dorms at the end of the semester.

There're also one or two rapes on campus every semester.

For example, in research with 3920 college students, Doctor Snyder and his colleagues found that the level of hope among freshmen at the beginning of their first semester was a more accurate predictor of their college grades, than were their SAT scores or their grade point averages in high school, the two measures most commonly used to predict college performance.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-COUNT

(某些国家中学院及大学的)学期,半学年

In colleges and universities in some countries, a semester is one of the two main periods into which the year is divided.

英汉词典释义

n.

(尤指美国的大专院校的)学期

英英词典释义

Noun

1. one of two divisions of an academic year

2. half a year; a period of 6 months