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。