1A place of study or training in a special field.

警察学校。

1. 1.1dated A place of study.
   〈旧〉学校
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   • More than providing vocational and academic training, the academies provided a web of valuable future contacts.
   • By 1825, 177 private academies were established, 13 of which were for girls.
   • After 1830, free settlers began to arrive and the musical public grew in numbers, establishing chamber music concerts, visits by virtuoso soloists, and private music academies.
   • A sign reads Mugen High School: The private academy for elegant young woman.
   • Entry was difficult - among the artists who failed the examinations were Rodin and Vuillard - and students often preferred the private academies.
   • They came together in a variety of salons, private academies, libraries and the like, enjoying the discreet but effective patronage of princes, ministers, and aristocrats.
   • The Dublin Society was founded in 1731 to promote Irish agriculture and manufactures, and during the 1740s absorbed a local academy to provide a training for arts and crafts.
   • She had decided that I was becoming too much like a boy and requested I to be sent off to my all girls academy to be educated and taught how to be proper.
   • Due to Coffin's influence, the Coffin School, a private academy on Nantucket reopened in 1903.
   • The seminary offered women more of a liberal education than the grade-school academies.
   • In Nicholas Nickleby, he crusaded against another institution, the so-called private academies for unwanted children.
   • The founding of elementary schools, academies, and universities was an important part of the reform movement.
   • In London, Daisy had been educated at an academy for young ladies where she gained a reputation as an extrovert.

   Synonyms

   educational institution, training establishment, centre of learning
2. 1.2Scottish, US A secondary school, typically a private one.
   〈美，苏格兰〉中学（在美国尤指私立学校）
   he had passed all his finals at Ephebus Academy

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   • The top schools would be reserved for the wealthiest layers of society, who could pay to send their children to elite private schools and academies.
   • Secondary head teachers said academies should be encouraged to collaborate with neighbouring schools.
   • City academies are publicly-funded independent secondary schools, given more freedom than normal state schools to help them raise standards in disadvantaged urban areas.
   • Blacks attend the public schools; most whites attend private academies.
   • Government plans to create more specialist secondary schools and privately managed city academies were also condemned.
   • Still other White students fled to segregated private academies.
   • They insisted on calling her Chaelia and sending her to a private academy for schooling.
   • What happened to the white children who didn't transfer to private academies but stayed in the public schools after they were desegregated?
   • There were few luxuries and certainly no thought of private academies.
   • Independent schools are also coming under pressure to invest more money in facilities as the Government invests in new secondary schools and academies.
   • English is commonly taught in the public schools, and sometimes French is offered in private academies.
   • Their children attend private academies and may occasionally speak to one of the Peasantry as the latter mows the grass or cleans the house.
   • The Emmanuel Schools Foundation last month announced its interest in sponsoring a new academy to replace Northcliffe Secondary School, which is in special measures.
   • Clarendon County whites resisted integration and created private academies that exist today.
   • Unlike traditional state-funded schools, city academies benefit from private sponsorship as well as government funding.
   • He carried the habit through a number of upscale academies and prep schools, managing to get routinely expelled for poor marks and a strong anti-authoritarian streak.
   • Her father had no idea she was enrolled in a private academy.
   • For example, McConnell is resisting the idea of city academies, which use private funds and expertise, despite offers of support from Irvine Laidlaw, one of the country's richest men.
   • They were twins who had just transferred from a private academy.
   • A child of the civil rights movement, she attended integrated schools and sends her son to one of Atlanta's tony private academies.
3. 1.3the Academy The teaching school founded by Plato.
   （柏拉图创建的）学园

2A society or institution of distinguished scholars and artists or scientists that aims to promote and maintain standards in its particular field.

1. 2.1 The community of scholars; academe.
   a writing and publishing world outside the academy

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   • The university used to be a system of well-patrolled borders - between disciplines, and between the academy and various outside worlds.
   • It's gratifying to see weblog postings participating in intellectual discourse within the academy as well as outside it.
   • He knew of the life that would await him outside the academy.
   • By contrast, Democratic and Republican Economists and Political Scientists are just as likely to be found inside and outside the academy.
   • This work is articulated in a way that invites - and will undoubtedly excite - a wide readership within and outside the academy.
   • For many of us both within and outside of the academy, the new century started in 1989.
   • There are signs that, outside the academy, middlebrow literary circles, and the United Nations, feminism has indeed met its Waterloo.
   • And even better, the format is equally open to people from outside the academy who want to read about the latest scholarship, blog about it, or even write it.
   • The largest issue, he finds, is that the humanities have become completely removed from the worlds outside the academy.
   • What does the left need to do to become more relevant outside the academy?
   • She is unusual in having such broad cultural interests and in deciding early on in her career to pursue those interests outside the academy in which she could clearly have excelled.
   • But outside the academy, they remained a fringe movement.
   • Outside the academy, the meaning of ‘environment’ has blurred and broadened.
   • But in the end, I believe that it does not matter whether professors are better motivated or not better motivated than those outside of the academy.
   • As he described it, succeeding in the liberal arts academy is tough enough as it is without the added burden of holding unpopular views.
   • Experiential learning is one of the most powerful and common methods by which adults continue learning outside the academy.
   • Then there is the recurring need for historians to strive to connect their scholarship to the interests of people outside of the academy.
   • Outside the academy, it is a notion that holds the promise of explaining how most readers evaluate what they read.
   • Unfortunately, we don't have in the United States a tradition of intellectual work outside the academy.
   • These philosophers broke little new ground, and the challenge to these orthodoxies came from outside the academy.