sizar
/sahy-zer/US // ˈsaɪ zər //UK // (ˈsaɪzə) //
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n.名词 noun
- 1
- : an undergraduate who receives maintenance aid from the college.
Examples
He was the son of a barber, but was well educated, and was able to enter Caius College as a sizar at thirteen.
Let the poor sizar toil over musty books; he will have a race horse.
Let me see; the next time I heard of him was when he attempted to enter college as a sizar, and failed.
Am I a poor sizar of Trinity, whose hard struggle with poverty has caught your sympathy?
In 1705 he entered as a sizar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge; in 1711 he was elected fellow of his college and was ordained.
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