考研英语掌握的熟词僻义：Academic(10次)

【例句】 Mr. McWhorter’s academic specialty is language history and change, and he sees the gradual disappearance of “whom”, for example, to be natural and no more regrettable than the loss of the case-endings of Old English.[2005年阅读4]

【典型译文】麦克沃特先生的学术专长在于语言史和语言变化，举例来说，他认为“whom”一词的逐渐消失是很自然的，并不比旧式英语中词格的消失更让人惋惜。

【僻义僻性】 n. 学者，大学教师

【例句】 Leonard Schlesinger, a Harvard academic and former chief executive of Au Bong Pain, a rapidly growing chain of bakery cafes, says that much “reengineering” has been crude.[1998年阅读text2]

【典型译文】哈佛学者伦纳德·施莱辛格是一家迅速扩张的美味面包店的前总裁，他说，许多“企业重组”都不成熟。

【同源词】academy学院，学会National Academy of Science国家科学学院