• adj. 安息日的
• n. 休假（美國(guó)某些大學(xué)給大學(xué)教師每七年一次的）

來(lái)自 Sabbath,休息，安息，-ical,形容詞后綴。現(xiàn)詞義縮寫(xiě)自 sabbatical year,休息年，用于指 大學(xué)教師進(jìn)行學(xué)術(shù)研究或旅游的假期。

sabbatical (adj.)

1640s, "of or suitable for the Sabbath," from Latin sabbaticus, from Greek sabbatikos "of the Sabbath" (see Sabbath). Noun meaning "a year's absence granted to researchers" (originally one year in seven, to university professors) is from 1934, short for sabbatical year, etc., first recorded 1886 (the thing itself is attested from 1880, at Harvard), related to sabbatical year (1590s) in Mosaic law, the seventh year, in which land was to remain untilled and debtors and slaves released.

1. He's been on sabbatical writing a novel.

他一直在休假寫(xiě)一部小說(shuō)。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

2. to take a year's sabbatical

享受一年的公休假

來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》

3. He spent his sabbatical year doing research in Moscow.

他花了他的教師休假年在莫斯科做研究.

來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》

4. Professor Robins is on sabbatical this year.

羅賓士教授今年在度他的休假年.

來(lái)自辭典例句

5. I've devoted my sabbatical to greenhouse trace gases.

我為了這溫室示蹤氣體已經(jīng)犧牲了我的休息日.

來(lái)自電影對(duì)白