Brit. informal <英, 非正式>
(swotted, swotting)no obj.
- study assiduously努力学习, 刻苦用功：
kids swotting for GCSEs.
为拿到普通中学教育证书而苦读的孩子们。
- a person who studies hard, especially one regarded as spending too much time studying刻苦用功的人（尤指花过多时间读书的人）：
at school I wasn't a swot, but I wasn't a layabout either.
上学的时候我不是个学习特别勤奋的人, 但我也不是个懒惰的学生。
派生词
swotty
adjective词源
mid 19th cent.: dialect variant of SWEAT.
短语动词
swot up on
- study (a subject) intensively, especially in preparation for something强化学习, （尤指为准备某事而）用功学习：
teachers spend their evenings swotting up on jargon
教师们晚上强化学习行话
(swot something up) I've always been interested in old furniture and I've swotted it up a bit.
我一直都对老式家具感兴趣, 并且集中学习了一些有关的知识。