| 单词 | gentleman's c |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgentleman's C gentleman's C n. (also gentlemen's C) U.S. (in contexts in which C is the lowest pass grade) an academic grade of C, as said to be (undeservedly) awarded to a student of high social status and low academic ambitions. ΚΠ 1907 Educ. Rev. Apr. 386 The saying that ‘C is a gentleman's grade’ is evidently an imperfect defense for the idler in Harvard College.] 1922 C. Britten in H. E. Stearns Civilization in U.S. 127 He crams through a few febrile nights of cloistral deprivations and flagellations; and the sun shines again on his harvest of gentlemen's C's. 1952 L. W. Ferguson Personality Measurem. xv. 400 A person who decides that he is going ‘to make’ Phi Beta Kappa has a higher level of aspiration that the student who decides he is going to be satisfied with a gentleman's C average. 2015 States News Service (Nexis) 25 Nov. A gentleman's C isn't possible in a competency-based program that requires mastery of a topic. < as lemmas |
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