C U 学院；大学 a school for higher education

　attend ～　上大学
　enter a ～　进大学
　found a ～　创办学院
　go to ～　上大学
　leave ～　大学毕业，离开学院
　manage a ～　管理学院
　run a ～　管理学院
　medical ～　医学院
　technical ～　工业学院
　business ～　商学院
　community ～　社区学院
　engineering ～　工程学院
　teachers' ～　师范学院
　training ～　培训学院
　university ～　附属于大学的学院
　woman's ～　女子学院
　～ education　大学教育
　after ～　大学毕业后
　at ～　在大学念书
　in ～　在大学念书

　The college was founded in 1918.　该学院成立于1918年。
　He belongs to this college.　他是这个学院的学生。
　They chucked her out of the college for being a bad influence.　因影响不好他们把她撵出了大学。
　The college course was then cut to three years.　大学学制那时缩短到三年。
　Shelley's fame had spread in the walls of the college.　雪莱的名声在大学里边传开了。
　He drifted through three girl friends, two colleges, and a succession of jobs.　他先后换了三个女朋友，转了两所大学，又接连调了几次工作。
　They founded a new college in Washington.　他们在华盛顿创建一所新学院。
　He has come to our college.　他来我们学院了。
　We constituted him president of our college.　我们选他做我们学院的院长。
　The number of colleges has grown since the war.　战后学院的数量有所增加。
　The college often feeds back information on students' performances at college to their parents.　学院经常将学生在校的情况反馈给家长。
　At the college fancy-dress ball, one of the students was got up as a tramp.　在学院的化装舞会上，有个学生扮成一个流浪汉。
　That school developed into a college.　那所中学发展成了一所大学。
　She applied to a college.　她申请上大学。
　She is now attending a college.　她现在正在上大学。
　He enrolled for further studies in a college last year.　他去年报名上大学深造。
　Many college students spread themselves thin by taking part in many activities during the semester.　许多学生在半学期里由于参加多种活动而变瘦了。
　Wang Tai got into the college basketball team last week.　王泰上个星期加入了学院篮球队。
　We contended that every college student must have a command of a foreign language.　我们坚持认为每位大学生必须掌握一门外语。
　Their friendship dates from college days.　他们的友谊从大学时代就开始了。
　When he failed in the college entrance examination, he felt that his hope was destroyed.　当他大学落榜时，他感觉到他的希望破灭了。
　She's grinding away for the college entrance exams.　她正在埋头苦学，准备大学入学考试。
　He framed his college diploma.　他把大学毕业证书装入镜框。
　When do you finish your college course?　你何时念完大学课程?
　The statisticians averaged out the number of people receiving college degrees in every one thousand persons.　统计学家算出了每千人中受大学教育的平均数。
　Failure in the exam blasted his hopes for college.　考试失败毁了他上大学的希望。
　He says he has dropped out, and won't attend college any more.　他说他退了学，以后也不会去上大学了。
　The family could not afford to send her to college.　家里无力送她上大学。
　He is in college.　他在上大学。
　She never got to go to college.　她从无机会上大学。
　I'm not one of the regular people here; I'm just filling in time before I go to college.　我不是这里的正式员工，我只是上大学前在这儿做一点临时工作。
　If you go to college, you must work hard, not fool around.　你要是上大学，就得好好学习，不能虚度光阴。
　Roger can't decide whether to go to college or get a job. He can't eat his cake and have it too.　罗杰拿不定主意是上大学还是工作，他不可两者兼得。
　I was attached to the naval college as a special instructor for six months.　我以六个月的专职教官身份加入了海军学校。
　Many men who only scrape in to the army college make the best officers.　不少勉强被军事院校录取的人成了最优秀的军官。
　She spent three years at the liberal arts college, scraping along on an allowance from her parents.　她靠父母的津贴勉勉强强地在文科大学里度过了三年。
　He had studied diligently at the normal college.　他在师范大学里勤奋学习。
　She regretted fooling around all through college.　她后悔虚度了大学的好时光。
　If you expect to enter the Royal College of Music in the fall, you should apply now.　如果你希望秋季上皇家音乐大学，现在就应该申请了。
　The agriculturist is going to give a lecture to the students in the agricultural college.　这位农学家将要给农学院的学生们讲学。
　I shouldn't be dining in the college tonight. Would you mind signing me out?　我今晚不在本校吃饭，请你签个字让我出去好吗?
　The speaker lashed the college into a fury.　那演说者煽动全校师生，使之愤怒。

 ♣ college, academy, institute, school, university
　这组词都有“学校”的意思。其区别在于：school一般指儿童或中学生学习或受教育的场所；university指综合性大学，可授予各种学位；college多指与综合性大学相对应的或综合大学内的专科院校，尤指军事、体育或艺术院校；academy指培训特别是特别技术或技能的学校、学院；institute主要指研究所、学会，在俄罗斯常指专科院校，而在英美教育体系中则很少见。例如：
　Children must attend school.　儿童必须上学。
　The college is affiliated to the university.　这所学院隶属于那所大学。
　He graduated from an academy of music in his early days.　他早年毕业于一所音乐专科学校。
　He was graduated from the Dalian Institute of Foreign Languages in the class of 1963.　他是大连外国语学院1963届的毕业生。

　这孩子筹措了足够上大学的钱。
　［误］ The boy scared up enough money to go to the college.
　［正］ The boy scared up enough money to go to college.
　最有希望的学生将会考进大学。
　［误］ The most promising students will go to the college.
　［正］ The most promising students will go to college.
　她去大学找她的男朋友。
　［误］ She went to college to look for her boyfriend.
　［正］ She went to the college to look for her boyfriend.
　［析］ 正如go to school一样，上大学应是go to college, college前不加定冠词the；而如果表示“去大学办某事（不是上学）”，其前则须加定冠词the.

　［同义词］ academy, school, university
　［词源］　拉丁语collega（挑选在一起共同从事高深知识技术的研究的地方→学院，大学）