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one of the two periods that the school or college year is divided into 學期(一學年分兩個學期) the spring/fall semester 春季/秋季學期
Extra ExamplesTopics Timeb1, Educationb1I spent a semester at the University of Madrid. 我在馬德裏大學待了一個學期。 I was finishing my last semester in college and trying to look for a job. 我當時即將結束最後一個學期的大學生活,正想找份工作。 The new semester started on February 3. 新學期 2 月 3 日開始。 The semester break had begun. 期中假期已經開始。 The total curriculum is 54 semester hours. 全部課程長度爲 54 學時。 students completing all eight semesters of the program 完成該課程全部 8 個學期學習的學生 the end of the first-semester course 第一學期課程收尾階段
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- first
- second
- fall
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- spend
- begin
- complete
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- begin
- start
- end
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- break
- hour
- credit hours
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Word Originearly 19th cent.: from German Semester, from Latin semestris ‘six-monthly’, from sex ‘six’ + mensis ‘month’.