喜樂美語

Picture school as a stack of floors. Little children start on the ground floor, and each year they climb. High school is the floor near the top — the last one inside school, with work or college waiting on the roof. High does not describe the building; it describes how far up the the students have come. Different countries draw the line between floors in different places, which is why the same two words can mean fourteen-year-olds in one country and twelve-year-olds in another.

可以想成學校是一棟有很多層的樓。小孩子從最底層開始，每一年往上爬一層。high school 就是靠近頂端的那一層——學校裡的最後一層，再上去就是工作或大學了。所以 high 講的不是建築物高，而是「已經爬到比較高的那一層」。不同國家把樓層的界線畫在不同高度，所以同樣兩個字，在有的地方指十四歲，在有的地方指十二歲。

From the word’s history

Recorded in Middle English as hyȝ scole, a school for higher study; by surface analysis high + school. The same build appears in German Hochschule and Dutch hogeschool.

來源說中古英語有 hyȝ scole（比較高階的學校）這個說法，拆開就是 high ＋ school。德文的 Hochschule、荷蘭文的 hogeschool 是同一種造字方式。這條線索剛好對上上面那個畫面：high 指的是學習的層級比較高，而不是校舍蓋得高。

Wiktionary entry for high school, supplied in packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1137827563:46897)

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

同家族的字

複數 high schools

意思相近

senior high schoolsecondary school

用法接近

middle schoolsecondary schooljunior highgrammar schoolcollegecomprehensive schoolelementary schooljunior high schoolsenior high schoolprimary school

原始詞典資料4 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。

high schoolnoun/ˈhaɪ.skul/

  • 1

    educationAn institution which provides all or part of secondary education.

  • 2

    A secondary school.

  • 3

    A secondary education school, consisting of junior high school and senior high school (grades 7-12)

  • 4

    historicalA secondary education school for years 1-4 (now junior high 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。