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faculty n.才能,本领,能力,全体教员,(大学的)系,科,(授予的)权力 Faculty comes from the Old French word faculté, which means “skill, accomplishment, or learning.” You may have great faculties of memory, sight, mobility, charm, math, and musicality, but, as Beethoven was in the end, be robbed of your faculty of hearing. Any aptitude or ability — inborn or learned — that you have is a faculty. Also, if you go to school, your teachers make up the faculty of that school. ★★☆☆☆ 2011.5

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['fæk(ə)lti] A faculty refers to any of your mental or physical abilities. If you lose your faculties, you are powerless. The faculty of a school is comprised of the people who work there. Lose them, and you are pretty bad off as well. The growth in public money for academic research has speeded the process: federal research grants rose fourfold between 1960and 1990, but faculty teaching hours fell by half as research took its toll. 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]官能；能力 Your faculties are your physical and mental abilities.   [usu pl]He was drunk and not in control of his faculties...他喝醉了，浑身都不听使唤了。It is also a myth that the faculty 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[N-VAR 可变名词](大学的)院系；(大学院系的)教职工 A faculty is a group of related departments in some universities, or the people who work in them.   [BRIT 英]...the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.社会政治系3[N-VAR 可变名词](大学、学院或院系的)全体教员 A faculty is all the teaching staff of a university or college, or of one department.   [oft N n]  [AM 美]The faculty agreed on a change in the requirements...全体教师一致同意修改规定。How can faculty 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？...eminent Stanford faculty members.声名显赫的斯坦福大学的教师们

英语单词	faculty
英美音标	['fæk(ə)lti]
中文释义	n.才能,本领,能力,全体教员,(大学的)系,科,(授予的)权力
vocab简明	A faculty refers to any of your mental or physical abilities. If you lose your faculties, you are powerless. The faculty of a school is comprised of the people who work there. Lose them, and you are pretty bad off as well.
vocab扩展	Faculty comes from the Old French word faculté, which means “skill, accomplishment, or learning.” You may have great faculties of memory, sight, mobility, charm, math, and musicality, but, as Beethoven was in the end, be robbed of your faculty of hearing. Any aptitude or ability — inborn or learned — that you have is a faculty. Also, if you go to school, your teachers make up the faculty of that school.
真题原句	The growth in public money for academic research has speeded the process: federal research grants rose fourfold between 1960and 1990, but faculty teaching hours fell by half as research took its toll.
柯林斯星级	★★☆☆☆
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]官能；能力 Your faculties are your physical and mental abilities. [usu pl] He was drunk and not in control of his faculties... 他喝醉了，浑身都不听使唤了。 It is also a myth that the faculty 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 [N-VAR 可变名词](大学的)院系；(大学院系的)教职工 A faculty is a group of related departments in some universities, or the people who work in them. [BRIT 英] ...the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences. 社会政治系 3 [N-VAR 可变名词](大学、学院或院系的)全体教员 A faculty is all the teaching staff of a university or college, or of one department. [oft N n] [AM 美] The faculty agreed on a change in the requirements... 全体教师一致同意修改规定。 How can faculty 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？ ...eminent Stanford faculty members. 声名显赫的斯坦福大学的教师们
来源	2011.5

Faculty Research Teaching Mental Physical Abilities Lose People