senior
基本释义
- adj.年龄大些的;(用在家庭内姓名相同的人名后表示)老,年长的;老年人的;(地位、水平或级别)较高的,高级的;(比赛)成人的,高水平的;<英>大于一定年龄(通常为11岁)的学童的;<美>(高中或大学)毕业年级的
- n.较年长的人;老年人,长者;地位(或级别)较高者,上司;<美>(中学或大学的)毕业班学生;资深成人运动员,高水平运动员
- 人名 (Senior)(英)西尼尔(人名)
词语例句
年龄大些的adj.
He is three years senior to me.
他比我大3岁。
(用在家庭内姓名相同的人名后表示)老,年长的adj.
I met Ken Griffey senior by chance yesterday.
昨天我无意中遇到了老肯‧格里菲。
老年人的adj.
My grandfather goes to the senior center every Friday.
我的爷爷每周五都会去老年活动中心。
Market modification also means searching for increased usage among present customers or going for a different market, such as senior citizens.
市场调整还意味着要为现有客户提供更多的花样,或转向不同的市场,如中老年人群体。
One of the more prominent of them is the senior citizen discount.
其中比较突出的是老年人折扣。
(地位、水平或级别)较高的,高级的adj.
The position had to be filled by an officer senior to Haig.
这个位置必须由一名职位比黑格高的军官来填补。
In a study of 120 teams of senior executives, he discovered that less than 10% of their supposed members agreed on who exactly was on the team.
在一项对120个高管团队的研究中,他发现团队中只有不到10%的成员在团队成员有谁的问题上达成一致。
So senior managers enjoy their jobs more than people working under them.
因此,高级经理比他们的下属更喜欢他们的工作。
- He was the senior serving naval officer.他曾是高级现役海军军官。来自《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
- Senior defence officials held private talks.高级防务官员举行了秘密会谈。来自《牛津词典》
- He passed himself off as a senior psychologist.他自己冒充是一名资深心理学家。来自《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
相关短语
- senior officer/manager高级军官/经理
- high school senior(美)高中毕业班学生
- senior citizen老年人
- be two/five/ten etc. years sb's senior比某人年长两岁/五岁/十岁等
- senior high高中
- senior high school高中
- senior management高级管理
- senior engineer[计]高级工程师
- senior middle school高中
- senior official高级官员;资深官员
- Senior Lecturer高级讲师;资深讲师;初级讲师;讲师
- senior counsel资深大律师;高级法律顾问
- senior accountant高级会计;高级会计师;资深会计
- Senior Engineer高级工程师;工程师;高级实验师;资深工程师
- Senior Employee高级雇员;初级雇员;高等雇员;资深员工
词语扩展
词义分布
英英释义
- n.an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation
- n.a person who is older than you are
- adj.older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service
- adj.used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college
- adj.advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)
- adj.having an important job in an organization
(在组织中)级别高的,资深的- He was a senior official in the Italian government.他是意大利政府的一名高级官员。
词源
- senior年长的,资格较老的,地位较高的,高级的来源于拉丁语形容词senex, senis(老的)的比较级senior。 词根词缀: -sen-老 + -ior形容词词尾
- senior年长的;资深的;大四学生词根sen-指“年老”,同根词有senate(参议院,许是因为古罗马的议事人员都是年长者),senator(参议员),senile(年老的),senescence(衰老)。senior和sir同源,都来自拉丁语senior(年长的)。
- senior年长的,老年的,高级的sen-,年老,-or,比较级后缀,词源同 prior.即更老的,引申诸相关词义。