| 单词 | professorial |
| 释义 | professorial (once / 13296 pages) adj When something is related to college professors — or reminds you of a professor — it's professorial. If you wear tweed blazers and tiny round glasses, someone might say you have a professorial clothing style. A professorial sabbatical is a fancy name for a year that a professor takes off work to travel, do research, or write a book. And a professorial position might be "instructor" or "assistant professor." Many people also think of things like eyeglasses, tweed jackets with elbow patches, and offices in buildings covered in ivy as being professorial. The word stems from the Latin professor, "person who professes to be an expert." WORD FAMILYprofessorial: professorially+/professor: professorial, professors, professorship/professorship: professorships USAGE EXAMPLESMost important, it gives professorial managers like Klopp and Conte more teaching time on the practice field, up to two bonus days a week. Wall Street Journal(Nov 18, 2016) David Banks is a professorial lecturer specialising in political history at the American University in Washington DC. Time(Nov 17, 2016) They would aim for the muscle that Tariq, in a professorial voice, called the deltoid. Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns(2007) adj relating to or characteristic of professors professorial demeanor |
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