education

education 指通过学习和训练培养知识、技能与判断力的过程，也可指由此获得的教育和学识；旧义还可表示教养或养育。

💡 记忆钩子

把 education 想成一个人被“带出来、培养起来”：先是接受知识和训练的过程，后来也可以指培养出来的学识与能力；在较旧的用法中，它还可指把孩子带大、教养成人。

📝 学习建议

先掌握“教育过程”和“所受教育、学识”这两个现代核心义，再记较旧的“教养、养育”义。
不要简单把 education 当作任何时候都能数的“一个教育”；表示教育这一抽象过程时通常不可数，表示一段完整的受教育经历时才常用可数形式。

📖 中文释义

noun

core 教育过程

📖 指系统地传授知识、培养技能和判断力的过程，重点在“培养人”这一行动本身，而不只是上课。

💡 常见结构是“receive/get/provide education”或“education is important”；这里通常把 education 当不可数名词使用。它既可指学校教育，也可泛指有组织的学习和培养，不一定只限于儿童或课堂。

uncountable

Every child has the right to a good education.

每个孩子都有权接受良好的教育。

Education can change the way people understand the world.

教育可以改变人们理解世界的方式。
core 所受教育；学识

📖 指一个人通过学习和正式教学获得的知识、技能与观念，重点从“培养过程”转向“培养出来的成果”。也可以指一个人接受过的完整教育经历。

💡 表示某人的教育背景时，常见结构是“have/had an education”或“a good/poor education”；此时可以用可数形式。不要把它只理解成书本知识，它也可包括训练出来的技能和判断力。

countable

Her education prepared her well for the demands of the job.

她所受的教育使她很好地应对了这份工作的要求。
rare 教养；养育

📖 这是较旧的用法，指把孩子带大并教养成人，强调家庭中的抚养和品格培养；现代英语中通常会用更具体的词表达。

💡 常见于旧式书面语或历史语境，通常出现在“the education of a child”一类结构中。现代日常英语里不要把它随意当作“养育”的普通说法，否则语气会显得不自然。

archaic countable uncountable

educations plural

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 6 组

the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university)

同义词集: education

上位: profession 下位: instruction, pedagogy, teaching

the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill; ;

同义词集: education instruction teaching pedagogy didactics educational activity

he received no formal education

our instruction was carefully programmed

good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded

上位: activity 下位: class, course, course of instruction, course of study, extension, extension service, university extension

the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)

同义词集: education training breeding

a woman of breeding and refinement

上位: upbringing

the gradual process of acquiring knowledge;

同义词集: education

education is a preparation for life

a girl's education was less important than a boy's

上位: acquisition, learning 下位: acculturation, assimilation, mastering, school, schooling, self-cultivation, self-education

knowledge acquired by learning and instruction

同义词集: education

it was clear that he had a very broad education

上位: cognitive content, content, mental object 下位: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, enlightenment, eruditeness, erudition, experience, foundation, grounding, learnedness, learning, scholarship

the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979

同义词集: department of education education department education

🌳 词源

源自中古法语和拉丁语，词源本义与“带出来、培养起来”有关；由 educate 加后缀 -ion 构成。

Borrowed from Middle French éducation, from Latin ēducātiō (“a breeding, bringing up, rearing”), from ēducō (“to educate, train”), from ēdūcō (“to lead forth, to take out; to raise up, to erect”). See educate. Morphologically educate + -ion.

🔄 变式

educations plural

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