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ADJ
教學的，學業的（尤指學識方面而非實踐、技能上的）
Academic is used to describe things that relate to the work done in schools, colleges, and universities, especially work which involves studying and reasoning rather than practical or technical skills.
例句
Their academic standards are high...
他們的教學水平很高。
I was terrible at school and left with few academic qualifications...
我的學習成績一塌糊涂，離校時幾乎沒有學歷。
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ADJ
學校的;學院的;大學的
Academic is used to describe things that relate to schools, colleges, and universities.
例句
...the start of the last academic year...
最后一個學年的開始
I'd had enough of academic life.
學生生活我已經過夠了。
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ADJ-GRADED
學術的,重研究與思辨的（與重實踐或技能相對）
Academic is used to describe work, or a school, college, or university, that places emphasis on studying and reasoning rather than on practical or technical skills.
例句
The author has settled for a more academic approach...
那位作者已確定采用更為學術的方法。
Different schools teach different types of syllabus, from the highly academic to the broadly vocational.
不同的學校有不同的教學計劃，從高度學術的到普通職業教育的，不一而足。
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ADJ-GRADED
學業優秀的
Someone who is academic is good at studying.
例句
The system is failing most disastrously among less academic children.
這種制度對學習不太好的孩子效果最差。
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大學教師；高校科研人員
An academic is a member of a university or college who teaches or does research.
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ADJ-GRADED
學究式的；空談的；不切實際的
You can say that a discussion or situation is academic if you think it is not important because it has no real effect or cannot happen.
例句
This was not an academic exercise — soldiers' lives were at risk...
這不是紙上演習——士兵的生命受到了威脅。
Such is the size of the problem that these arguments are purely academic.
問題的實情在于這些論點純屬空談。