professorial
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Of, relating to, or characteristic of a professor or professors, or of a professorship or professorships.
— David and I were not "intimate" friends. There was always a certain old-worldly formality about our interchanges. There was something professorial and distant about David, something that commanded respect, partially, I think, because he was so respectful himself.
词源
From Latin professōrius (“professiorial; authoritative”) + -al. By surface analysis, professor + -ial.
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