dean
dean 英 [di:n] 美 [din]
n. 院长；系主任；教务长；主持牧师
名词复数:deans
- A dean is the head of a specific area of a college, university, or private school. When you're thinking about studying in Madagascar for a semester, you might make an appointment to talk to the study abroad dean.
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- n. 院长；系主任；教务长；主持牧师
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1. Our dean hasn’t turned 40 yet.
我们系主任还不到40岁。
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2. He has obtained the consent of the dean for going abroad.
他出国已经取得系主任的同意。
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3. The dean tasked me to conduct experiments with new teaching methods.
系主任派给我进行新教学方法的试验。
- dean (n.) early 14c., from Old French deien (12c., Modern French doyen), from Late Latin decanus "head of a group of 10 monks in a monastery," from earlier secular meaning "commander of 10 soldiers" (which was extended to civil administrators in the late empire), from Greek dekanos, from deka "ten" (from PIE root *dekm- "ten"). Replaced Old English teoðingealdor. College sense is from 1570s (in Latin from late 13c.).
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