喜樂美語

Picture a single classroom hundreds of years ago, full of boys chanting Latin endings. In those days grammar meant Latin grammar, and that is exactly what the school was for, so the name simply said what went on inside. The lessons changed over the centuries, but the name stayed, and British and American English then carried it off in different directions.

可以想成幾百年前的一間教室，裡面的男孩整天在背拉丁文的字尾。那時候 grammar 指的就是拉丁文法，學校也真的只做這件事，所以名字等於在說裡面在教什麼。後來上課的內容一路改變，名字卻留在原地——英式英語和美式英語就從這裡各自把它帶去了不同的地方。

From the word’s history

The phrase came into English from Middle English gramere scole, a school for the grammar of a European language, especially Latin and Greek.

這個說法承自中古英文的 gramere scole，指的是教歐洲語言文法（尤其是拉丁文和希臘文）的學校。所以「文法」不是後來附加的聯想，它本來就是這種學校的全部內容。

Wiktionary entry 'grammar school', etymology_text supplied in packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:965053956)

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複數 grammar schools

意思相近

Latin schoolelementary schoolselective schoolgrade schoolprimary school

意思相反

comprehensive schoolhigh schoolsecondary modernjunior high

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

grammar schoolnoun

  • 1

    archaicA school that teaches its pupils the grammar system of a European language, especially Latin and Greek.

  • 2

    A secondary school that stresses academic over practical or vocational education, until recent times open to those pupils who had passed the 11-plus examination.

    • The largest building at one end, now used as a church hall, was originally the village's one-roomed grammar school, also endowed by the Lumleys.
    • It is a world where grammar school is the only way up, but at the cost of subjugation to educational tyranny and eventual estrangement from the family that was once so "proud" of your achievements.
  • 3

    rareregionalElementary school.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。