a person who has successfully completed a course of study or training, especially a person who has been awarded an undergraduate or first academic degree (完成了一定阶段学习或培训,尤指获得大学或第一个学位的)毕业生 ■(N. Amer.)a person who has received a high-school diploma (北美)高中毕业生 she is 19, a graduate of Lincoln High. 她19岁,林肯高中毕业。
verb
[no obj.]successfully complete an academic degree, course of training, or (N. Amer.) high school 获得学位;完成培训; 北美 从高中毕业 he graduated from Glasgow University in 1990. 他1990年从格拉斯哥大学毕业。 ■[with obj.](N. Amer.)confer a degree or other academic qualification on (北美)授予学位(或其他学术资格) the school graduated more than one hundred arts majors in its first year. 该校在第一年授予了100多个艺术专业学生学位。 ■(graduate to)move up to (a more advanced level or position) 升级 he started with motorbikes but now he's graduated to his first car. 他开始有辆摩托车,现在已经鸟枪换炮有了第一辆汽车。
[with obj.]arrange in a series or according to a scale 按序列或规模安排 [as adj. graduated]a graduated tax. 累进税。 ■mark out (an instrument or container) in degrees or other proportionate divisions (在仪器或容器上)做标记 the stem was graduated with marks for each hour. 每个小时都在那根竿子上做标记。
[with obj.]change (something, typically colour or shade) gradually or step by step 逐渐(或逐步)改变(某物,尤指颜色或色调) the colour is graduated from the middle of the frame to the top. 颜色从画面的中间向顶部渐渐转变。
语源
late Middle English: from medieval Latin graduat- 'graduated', from graduare 'take a degree', from Latin gradus 'degree, step'