faculty

• n. 科，系；能力；全体教员

来自词根fact, 做，词源同fact,effect.即做事情的能力，才能等。后用来指全体教职员。

1. one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind

2. the body of teachers and administrators at a school;

"the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university"

faculty

faculty: [14] If one has a faculty for doing something, one finds it ‘easy’ to do. The word comes, via Old French faculte, from Latin facultās. This was a parallel form to facilitās (source of English facility [15]). Both were derived from Latin facilis ‘easy’ (whence English facile [15]), an adjective formed from the verb facere ‘do’. Since facilitās more closely resembled facilis, it retained its connotations of ‘easiness’, whereas by the classical period facultās had more or less lost them, coming to mean ‘capability, power’.
=> facile, facility

faculty (n.)

late 14c., "ability, opportunity, means, resources," from Old French faculte "skill, accomplishment, learning" (14c., Modern French faculté) and directly from Latin facultatem (nominative facultas) "power, ability, capability, opportunity; sufficient number, abundance, wealth," from *facli-tat-s, from facilis (see facile).

Academic sense "branch of knowledge" (late 14c.) was in Old French and probably was the earliest in English (it is attested in Anglo-Latin from late 12c.), on notion of "ability in knowledge" or "body of persons on whom are conferred specific professional powers." Originally each department was a faculty; the use in reference to the whole teaching staff of an entire college dates from 1767. Related: Facultative. The Latin words facultas and facilitas "were originally different forms of the same word; the latter, owing to its more obvious relationship to the adj., retained the primary sense of 'easiness', which the former had ceased to have before the classical period." [OED]

ability, capacity, capability, genius, talent, competence, faculty, gift, aptitude

这些名词均可表示人的"能力，才能"之意。

ability：普通用词，指人先天的或学来的各种能力。

capacity：侧重指人的潜在能力，通常不指体力，多指才智，尤指接受与领悟能力。

capability：多用于人，指胜任某项具体工作的能力，也指本身具有、尚未发挥的潜在能力。常与of或for连用。

genius：语气最强，指天赋的高度才能与智力。

talent：着重指人某方面具有可发展和培养的突出天赋才能，但语意比genius弱。

competence：正式用词，侧重指令人满意的业务能力与水平，达到胜任某项工作等的要求。

faculty：指特殊的才能或智力。

gift：着重个人的天赋的才能或在某方面的显著本领，常暗含不能用一般规律作解释的意味。

aptitude：多指先天或后天习得的运用自如的能力，常暗示接受能力强，能迅速掌握一种学术训练或艺术技巧。

In other departments, a new student is assigned a faculty adviser based on some system of distribution of the  departments advising load.

出自-2016年6月听力原文

Recently I attended several meetings where we talked about ways to retain students and keep younger faculty members from going elsewhere.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Houde and his fellow faculty members dug up the fossil in late May.

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

In other departments, a new student is assigned a faculty adviser based on some system of distribution of the departments "advising load".

2016年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

Okay, so cats may not be the next physics faculty members at America's most important research universities.

2018年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

Students risk health and well being,as well as performance in other end-of-term work, when faculty offers take-home exams without clear, time-limited boundaries.

2017年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

This connection happens not only by means of collaborative development, review and testing, but also at conferences where faculty regularly decide on their textbooks and curricula for the coming year.

2019年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

It has neglected their faculty's demands.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

And I’m going to pick a definition from a former colleague, Robert Sternberg, who is now the dean at Tufts University, but was here on our faculty at Yale for nearly 30 years.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

Within academic departments, tenure(终身职位),combined with age-discrimination laws, makes faculty turnover—critical for a university to remain current in changing times—difficult.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

And faculty members will be wary of any change that threatens the core curriculum in the name of moving students into the workforce

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

Another risk: the new campus schedules might eventually produce less revenue for the institution and longer working hours for faculty members.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

That's without cutting the length of students' vacations, increasing class sizes, or requiring faculty to teach more

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

Its faculty members teach more hours a week.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

College faculty members are afraid that the pretext of moving students into the workforce might pose a threat to the core curriculum

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

Humanists are usually among the lowest-paid faculty members at most institutions and are often lightly regarded because they do not generate grant income and because they provide no obvious credentials (资质) for most nonacademic careers.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

After becoming president of Purdue University in 2013, mitch Daniels asked the faculty to prove that their students have actually achieved one of higher education's most important goals: critical thinking skills.

2017年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

And I'm going to pick a definition from a former colleague, Robert Sternberg, who is now the dean at Tufts University, but was here on our faculty at Yale for nearly 30 years.

2016年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

But the only way college could be free is if the faculty and staff donated their time, the buildings required no maintenance, and campuses required no utilities.

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

I use the term "low-tier" cautiously, because GSU is a well-regarded research institution that attracts high quality professors and faculty from all over the country.

2018年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

likewise, star faculty is not always found where you'd expect.

2018年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

Wealthy universities talk up the benefits their name will give graduates: namely, strong alumni networks, star faculty, and a resume boost.

2018年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

Yet like many college teachers around the U.S., the faculty remain doubtful that their work as educators can be measured by a "learning outcome" such as a graduate's ability to investigate and reason.

2017年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

You see it in faculty members who are pleased when their students make a discovery that undermines a cherished theory that they had put forward.

2017年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

The growth in public money for academic research has speeded the process: federal research grants rose fourfold between 1960 and 1990, but faculty teaching hours fell by half as research took its toll.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

the faculty of sight

视觉

牛津词典

She retained her mental faculties (= the ability to think and understand) until the day she died.

她直到临终那天一直保持着思维和理解能力。

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to be in full possession of your faculties (= be able to speak, hear, see, understand, etc.)

拥有一切官能（能够说、听、看见、理解等）

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the faculty of understanding complex issues

理解复杂问题的能力

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He had a faculty for seeing his own mistakes.

他具有看到自己错误的能力。

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the Faculty of Law

法学院

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the Arts Faculty

文学院

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the Law School faculty

法学院全体教师

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a faculty meeting

全体教师会议

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faculty members

全系教师

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faculty members

全体教师

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He was drunk and not in control of his faculties...

他喝醉了，浑身都不听使唤了。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

It is also a myth that the faculty of hearing is greatly increased in blind people.

盲人的听力会大幅增强也是一种谬谈。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.

社会政治系

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The faculty agreed on a change in the requirements...

全体教师一致同意修改规定。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

How can faculty improve their teaching so as to encourage creativity?

教师们如何才能改进教学以激发创造性呢？

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The mental faculty by which one deliberately chooses or decides upon a course of action; volition.

决心,意志人慎重地选择或决定采取一系列行动的精神能力; 意志力.

期刊摘选

Good coordinated communication ability, adaptive faculty, responded that quick, is positive, is nimble, likes innovating!

良好协调沟通能力, 适应力强, 反应快 、 积极 、 灵活, 爱创新!

期刊摘选

He may well have recalled with apprehension her ancient faculty of silence.

他想起她以前那种沉默的能耐,心里不觉恐慌起来.

辞典例句

John has the faculty to learn languages easily.

约翰有迅速学会语言的能力.

期刊摘选

Master of Law, Faculty of Law, Peking University, 1983.

1983年北京大学法律系法学硕士.

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Prof. Wang Mingyu : graduated from Industrial Automation of Chongqing University theas the faculty member in 1982.

王明渝 教授1982年毕业于重庆大学工业自动化专业并留校任教.

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The Faculty of Business Administration is a pioneer in business education in Hong Kong.

香港中文大学工商管理学院是香港商学教育的先驱.

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To participate in MCM a team must be sponsored by a faculty advisor from their institution.

每个MCM的参赛队需有一名所在单位的指导教师负责.

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The faculty of Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology consists of three associate professors.

本学科副教授3名,李新荣副教授和袁榴娣副教授是江苏省生化学会理事.

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The pictographic nature of Chinese characters helps to stimulate the thinking faculty of children.

汉字的象形特性,对激发孩童的思考能力有帮助.

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He has a good faculty of hearing.

他的听力生来就好.

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