institution

institution

英[ˌɪnstɪˈtjuːʃn]美[ˌɪnstɪˈtuːʃn]

n.机构，社会收容机构，习俗，建立；开创；制定；设立，出名的人，制度；习俗；

复数：institutions;

例句

an institution for mentally ill offenders为患有精神病的违法者设立的精神病院

Institution of such schools was geared to these needs.这种学校的建立是与这些需要相配合的。

My uncle has become quite an institution at the club!我叔叔在俱乐部里已是颇有名气的人物了!

That old man in the park is a regular institution.那老人是这公园的常客。

The institution of slavery was once widespread.奴隶制度一度广为流行。

a course at an institution of higher education一所高等院校中的一门课程

A country‘s capacity to use aid well depends heavily on its policies、institution and management。一个国家有效的利用救援的能力主要取决于该国的*策、制度和管理。

The government built a charitable institution for the education of young children.*府建立了一个儿童教育慈善机构。

He had defended the institution of a celibate priesthood.他捍卫了独身牧师制度。

The traditionalist influences within the navy marked it off as a rather old-fashioned institution.传统势力在海*内部的影响使其显得像是一个极其守旧的机构。

英语六级真题

They try to develop their skills through close supervision and organized activities, and teach children to question authority figures and navigate elite institutions.

System institutions are operating very efficiently based on this analysis, raising the question of the value of pursuing a broad scale outsourcing initiative.

Do some strategies give children more advantages than others in institutions? Probably they do.

Whether this is right, and if so where and when the ecological axe will fall, is hard to determine with any precision—which is why governments and financial institutions are only beginning to bring such risks into their economic calculations.

Some top institutions like Yale seem to provide first-generation students with more support than they actually need.

Our support structure was more like: ‘You are going to get through Yale; you are going to do well,' he said, hinting at mentors ( ' , 导师 ), staff, and professors who all provided significant support for students who lacked confidence about belonging at such a top institution.

Museums and other institutions of informal learning may be better suited to teach this skill than elementary and secondary schools.

Many large institutions keep this kind of data secret—or at least make it incredibly difficult to find.

It's not only the selective and elite institutions that provide those opportunities for a small subset of this population, Rubinoff said, adding that a majority of first-generation undergraduates tend toward options such as online programs, two-year colleges, and commuter state schools.

If we can help to direct students to more of these types of campuses and help students to understand them to be realistic and accessible places, have them apply to these schools at greater frequency and ultimately get in and enroll, we are going to raise the success rate, Rubinoff said, citing a variety of colleges ranging from large state institutions to smaller private schools.

Higher education institutions are, under federal law, required to report graduation rates, but these reports typically only include Pell recipient number—not necessarily rates specific to first-generation students.

Despite this problem, many students are still drawn to these institutions—and two-year schools in particular.

True, not all U.S.students can match theperformance of their foreign counterparts, but the American institutions do offer students from rich and poor families alike the chance to realize their full potential.

For all their troubles, the United States’ 3,500 institutions were flooded with more than half a million students from 193 countries last year.

A recent article in The Harvard Crimson noted the shocking growth of Harvard's public relations arm in the last five years and it questioned whether a focus on risk management and avoiding controversy was really the best outward-looking face of this great institution.

F) Today nearly 70 percent of graduating seniors go off to college, including two-year and four-year institutions.

Since then, several academic institutions have begun to require IDPs for post docs And in June, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group recommended that the NIH require IDPs for the approximately 32,000 postdoctoral researchers they support.

In 2010,the Institution of Mechanical Engineers identified three principal emerging population groups across the world, based on characteristics associated with their current and projected stage of economic development.

In order to begin tackling the challenge, the Institution recommends that: The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation work with the international engineering community to ensure governments of developed nations put in place programmes that transfer engineering knowledge, design know-how, and suitable technology to newly developing countries

At least four institutions - the University of Maryland, Oklahoma Christian University, Abilene Christian and Freed-Hardeman- have announced that they will give the devices to some or all of their students this fall.

Because so many of our modern technologies and services depend on oil, nations, corporations, and institutions that control the trade in oil exercise extraordinary power

Judson College, a 350-student institution in Alabama, has offered students a three-year option for 40 years.

Another risk: the new campus schedules might eventually produce less revenue for the institution and longer working hours for faculty members

Students may choose among 6,000 public, private, nonprofit, for profit, or religious institutions of higher learning.

The most recent comparative data on the performance of universities and research institutions in Australia, Canada, USA and UK shows that, from a relatively weak starting position, the UK now leads on many indicators of commercialisation activity.

These same universities are also the institutions producing the greatest share of PhD graduates, science citations, patents and licence income

fair distribution of funding for universities and research institutions

Spread their influence among top research institutions

Humanistic disciplines are seriously underfunded, not just by the government and the foundations but by academic institutions themselves.

Humanists are usually among the lowest-paid faculty members at most institutions and are often lightly regarded because they do not generate grant income and because they provide no obvious credentials (资质) for most nonacademic careers

But the idea that institutions or their students must decide between humanities and science is false.

"Our support structure was more like: ‘ You are going to get through Yale; you are going to do well, '" he said, hinting at mentors, staff, and professors who all provided significant support for students who lacked confidence about " belonging" at such a

"with my institution and teaching load,I don't have postdocs and grad students," says Terry McGlynn, a tropical biologist at California State University, Dominguez hills.

I use the term "low-tier" cautiously, because GSU is a well-regarded research institution that attracts high quality professors and faculty from all over the country.

since it's a government-operated institution, things don't move very fast.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-COUNT; N-IN-NAMES

(大学、教会、银行等)(大型)机构

An institution is a large important organization such as a university, church, or bank.

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N-COUNT; N-IN-NAMES

(精神病院、孤儿院等)社会收容机构

An institution is a building where certain people are looked after, for example people who are mentally ill or children who have no parents.

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N-COUNT

习俗;制度

An institution is a custom or system that is considered an important or typical feature of a particular society or group, usually because it has existed for a long time.

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N-UNCOUNT

建立;设立;制定

The institution of a new system is the act of starting it or bringing it in.

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英汉词典释义

n.

惯例, 习俗, 制度,（由来已久的）风俗习惯

为人熟知常在某处的人

人士, 名流; （某地或工作中的）出名的人

慈善机构; 社会福利机构

建立, 制定, 设立

（大学、银行等规模大的）机构

(教育、慈善、**性质的)社会公共机构；事业机构

社会公共机构所在的建筑物；校址；院址；会址

[口语]为人所熟悉的人(或事)；名人

【法律】基本原理；基本原则；法理教程

英英词典释义

Noun

1. an organization founded and united for a specific purpose

2. an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated

3. a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society;

4. the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new;

5. a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person

行业词典

法律： 制度；事业单位；条例；体制；