- an institution for educating children学校：
Ryder's children did not go to school at all
莱德的孩子们根本没上学
as modifier school books.课本。
- the buildings used by such an institution学校建筑, 校舍：
the cost of building a new school.
建新校的成本。
- treated as pl. the pupils and staff of a school全校师生：
the headmaster was addressing the whole school.
校长正向全校师生讲话。
- mass noun a day's work at school; lessons（一天的）功课; 上课：
school started at 7 a. m.
学校早上七点开始上课。
- with adj. figurative used to describe the type of circumstances in which someone was brought up〈喻〉成长环境：
I was brought up in a hard school and I don't forget it.
我成长于艰苦环境, 我不会忘记。
- any institution at which instruction is given in a particular discipline专科学校：
a dancing school.
舞蹈学校。
- N. Amer. informal another term for UNIVERSITY.〈北美, 非正式〉 同UNIVERSITY.
- a department or faculty of a university concerned with a particular subject of study（大学的）系; 科; 院：
the School of Dental Medicine.
牙科医学系。
- a group of people, particularly writers, artists, or philosophers, sharing the same or similar ideas, methods, or style（作家、画家或哲学家的）学派：
the Frankfurt school of critical theory.
批评理论的法兰克福学派。
- with adj. or noun modifier a style, approach, or method of a specified character流派：
film-makers are tired of the skin-deep school of cinema.
制片人厌倦了肤浅的电影流派。
schools
Brit. (at Oxford University) the hall in which final examinations are held〈英〉（牛津大学的）期末考试大厅。
- the examinations themselves（牛津大学的）期末考试。
- Brit. a group of people gambling together〈英〉一伙赌徒：
a poker school.
一伙玩扑克牌的赌徒。
- a group of people drinking together in a bar and taking turns to buy the drinks（轮番到酒吧请客喝酒的）酒友。
- chiefly formal or N. Amer. send to school; educate〈主正式或北美〉送…上学; 使受教育：
Taverier was born in Paris and schooled in Lyon.
塔佛利亚生于巴黎, 在里昂受的教育。
- train or discipline (someone) in a particular skill or activity训练; 培养：
he schooled her in horsemanship
他教她马术
it's important to school yourself to be good at exams.
你有必要训练自己的应试技巧。
- Riding train (a horse) on the flat or over fences【马术】训练（马）在平地比赛（或跨越障碍）。
leave school
- finish one's education毕业; 离校, 辍学：
he left school at 16.
他16岁时毕业离校。
of（或from）the old school
the school of hard knocks
- 见KNOCK.
school of thought
- a particular way of thinking, especially one not followed by the speaker（尤指说话人不赞同的）思潮：
there is a school of thought that says 1960s office blocks should be refurbished as residential accommodation.
有一种思潮认为60年代的办公街区应重新装修用作住宅。