faculty的详细意思

1. 系，院，科
2. 官能，能力，技能，才能
3. 机能
4. 全体教职员，全体人员
5. 手腕
6. 特权，特许
7. 权能
8. 专科
9. 教授会

1.官能;能力
Yourfaculties are your physical and mental abilities.

e.g. He was drunk and not in control of his faculties...
他喝醉了，浑身都不听使唤了。
e.g. It is also a myth that thefaculty of hearing is greatly increased in blind people.
盲人的听力会大幅增强也是一种谬谈。

2.(大学的)院系;(大学院系的)教职工
Afaculty is a group of related departments in some universities, or the people who work in them.

e.g. ...theFaculty of Social and Political Sciences.
社会政治系

3.(大学、学院或院系的)全体教员
Afaculty is all the teaching staff of a university or college, or of one department.

e.g. Thefaculty agreed on a change in the requirements...
全体教师一致同意修改规定。
e.g. How canfaculty improve their teaching so as to encourage creativity?
教师们如何才能改进教学以激发创造性呢？

1. 全体教员：当然,这指的是教员,办公室是要保持连续运转的-- 国外高校职员都包括两套班子,一套是教学人员,即全体教员(faculty),另一套是管理人员,二者合称员工(staff).

2. 才能：MM:请问,我怎样才能(faculty)到大学去? 教授:只有努力读书,才可以上大学. 23:局长与科长共乘电梯,局长放一屁后对科长说:你放屁了!科长说:不是我放的...不久科长被免职,局长在会上说:屁大的事你都担待不起,要你何用?

1. He lacks completely the faculty of self-criticism.
   他完全缺乏自我批评的能力。
2. He has a faculty for putting people at ease.
   他有使人放轻松的技巧。
3. The department of physics is in the Faculty of Science.
   物理系隶属于理学院。
4. He was on the faculty there for over forty years.
   他在那里任教达40多年。
5. The medical faculty is/are made up of doctors and nurses.
   全体医务人员由医生和护士组成。

• He had the faculty of making order out of confusion.

  出自：D. H. Lawrence

• ☆ 14世纪晚期进入英语，直接源自古法语的faculte，意为能力；最初源自拉丁语的facultatem，意为能力。