• n. 院長；系主任；教務長；主持牧師

來自拉丁語decanus, 修道院管理十個人的牧師，詞源同ten, December.后詞義通用化。

dean

dean: [14] Etymologically, a dean is someone in charge of a group of ten people. That was the meaning of its ancestor, Greek dekānós, a word formed from déka ‘ten’. This eventually came to designate specifically someone in charge of ten monks, and this sense passed via late Latin decānus, Old French deien, and Anglo-Norman deen into English as the ‘head of a cathedral’. The modern French descendant of deien, doyen, was reborrowed into English in the 17th century.
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dean (n.)

early 14c., from Old French deien (12c., Modern French doyen), from Late Latin decanus "head of a group of 10 monks in a monastery," from earlier secular meaning "commander of 10 soldiers" (which was extended to civil administrators in the late empire), from Greek dekanos, from deka "ten" (see ten). Replaced Old English teoeingealdor. College sense is from 1570s (in Latin from late 13c.).

1. Stan Dean, easily identifiable by his oddly-shaped hat, sat in a doorway.

斯坦·迪安坐在門口，他那頂奇形怪狀的帽子一下子就讓人認出他來。

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2. She was Dean of the Science faculty at Sophia University.

她是上智大學科學院的院長。

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3. I'll lay odds that Dean is at your office right now.

我敢打賭迪安現在就在你辦公室。

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4. He also began a running feud with Dean Acheson.

他也開始接二連三地和艾奇遜院長發生爭執。

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5. I'm making inquiries about the circumstances of Mary Dean's murder.

我在調查瑪麗·迪安謀殺案的詳情。

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