faculty

noun

1. 官能；天赋
   any of the physical or mental abilities that a person is born with
   1. the faculty of sight
      视觉
   2. She retained her mental faculties (= the ability to think and understand) until the day she died.
      她直到临终那天一直保持着思维和理解能力。
   3. to be in full possession of your faculties (= be able to speak, hear, see, understand, etc.)
      拥有一切官能（能够说、听、看见、理解等）
2. 才能；能力
   a particular ability for doing sth
   1. the faculty of understanding complex issues
      理解复杂问题的能力
   2. He had a faculty for seeing his own mistakes.
      他具有看到自己错误的能力。
3. （高等院校的）系，院
   a department or group of related departments in a college or university
   1. the Faculty of Law
      法学院
   2. the Arts Faculty
      文学院
4. （高等院校中院、系的）全体教师
   all the teachers in a faculty of a college or university
   1. the Law School faculty
      法学院全体教师
   2. a faculty meeting
      全体教师会议
   3. faculty members
      全系教师
5. （某高等院校的）全体教师
   all the teachers of a particular university or college
   1. faculty members
      全体教师

1. N-COUNT 官能;能力
   Your faculties are your physical and mental abilities.
   1. He was drunk and not in control of his faculties...
      他喝醉了，浑身都不听使唤了。
   2. It is also a myth that the faculty of hearing is greatly increased in blind people.
      盲人的听力会大幅增强也是一种谬谈。
2. N-VAR (大学的)院系;(大学院系的)教职工
   A faculty is a group of related departments in some universities, or the people who work in them.
   1. ...the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.
      社会政治系
3. N-VAR (大学、学院或院系的)全体教员
   A faculty is all the teaching staff of a university or college, or of one department.
   1. The faculty agreed on a change in the requirements...
      全体教师一致同意修改规定。
   2. How can faculty improve their teaching so as to encourage creativity?
      教师们如何才能改进教学以激发创造性呢？
   3. ...eminent Stanford faculty members.
      声名显赫的斯坦福大学的教师们

1. She was Dean of the Science faculty at Sophia University.
   她是上智大学科学院的院长。
2. I had to keep my end up with other professors in the faculty
   我得和系里其他教授一起做好自己的本职工作。
3. He was drunk and not in control of his faculties
   他喝醉了，浑身都不听使唤了。
4. It is also a myth that the faculty of hearing is greatly increased in blind people.
   盲人的听力会大幅增强也是一种谬谈。
5. The faculty agreed on a change in the requirements
   全体教师一致同意修改规定。
6. How can faculty improve their teaching so as to encourage creativity?
   教师们如何才能改进教学以激发创造性呢？
7. He was one of the founders of the university's medical faculty.
   他是该大学医学院的创建人之一。
8. The Bush Foundation has funded a variety of faculty development programs
   布什基金会已经资助了许多教员发展项目。
9. Faculty members devote most of their time to scholarly research.
   全院教师大部分时间都用来从事学术研究。
10. For the faculty, there exists the triad of responsibilities: teaching, research, and service.
    教员要承担三重责任：教学、研究与服务。
11. Some students unburden themselves of emotional problems that faculty members feel ill equipped to handle.
    一些学生倾诉了教师们无力解决的情感问题。
12. Faculty members complain that their students are unprepared to do college-level work
    学院的老师们抱怨说他们的学生还很不适应大学的课业。
13. He spoke on behalf of all the members of the faculty and staff.
    他代表全体教职员工讲了话。
14. So far as I know, she has a faculty of housekeeping.
    就我所知，她很善于理家。
15. Faculty members will have to give and take in creating new courses and revising old ones.
    开设新课程或修订旧课程时，教师们应该互相迁让。
16. The school has a strong faculty.
    那所学校师资力量很充实。
17. Present at the meeting were faculty, administration, and staff, and also student representatives.
    到会的有教职员工，再就是学生代表。
18. He lacks completely the Faculty of self-criticism.
    他完全缺乏自我批评的能力。
19. He has a faculty for putting people at ease.
    他有使人放轻松的技巧。
20. She is the new dean of the faculty social sciences.
    她是新任社会科学院院长。
21. He was on the faculty there for over forty years.
    他在那里任教达40多年。
22. The medical faculty is/ are made up of doctors and nurses.
    全体医务人员由医生和护士组成。
23. The Department of physics is in the Faculty of science.
    物理系隶属于理学院。
24. The full-time faculty including instructors, writers and editors create and teach the courses.
    设计和教授课程的教学人员都是全职，其中包括教师、作家和编辑。
25. We encourage lifelong learning and development for our students, faculty, and staff.
    我们鼓励终身学习和发展为我们的学生，教师和工作人员。
26. The faculty also offers graduate and post-graduate programs in Environmental Design.
    该学院还提供了环境设计的本科和研究生课程。
27. Faculty research is a blend of rigour and relevance, as well as national and international issues.
    学院的研究是一个混合的严密性和相关性，以及国家和国际问题。
28. An educational institution's faculty and students.
    一个教育机构的全体教员和学生。
29. University sites contain information about their campuses, curriculum, and faculty.
    大学网站包含了关于他们的校园，课程和院系的信息。
30. York's Faculty of Science and Engineering is one of Canada's leading teaching and research institutions.
    约克的科学与工程学院是加拿大的一个领先教学和研究机构。

  facility faculty potential【导航词义：才能】

  facility n. 〈正式〉天赋，才能

〔辨析〕指与生俱来的学习或做某事的能力。

  faculty n. 〈正式〉才能，技能

〔辨析〕指擅长做某事的才能。

  potential n. 潜力，潜能

〔辨析〕指虽已具备但尚未发挥出来的能力。

  talent aptitude faculty genius gift knack【导航词义：天赋，能力】

  talent n. 天资，才能

〔辨析〕指人在某一方面所具有的可发展和培养的突出天赋，语气弱于 genius。

  aptitude n. 天资，资质

〔辨析〕指天生的才能，尤指在学习方面的聪颖资质，能迅速掌握某种技能、技巧等，通常后接介词 for。

  faculty n. 〈正式〉才能，技能

〔辨析〕指某种特殊的才能、能力。

  genius n. 天才，天赋

〔辨析〕语气最强，可指天赋极高者，也可指天赋的特殊才能与智力，强调高智商，含具有独特的创造力之意。

  gift n. 天赋，才能

〔辨析〕指人天生具有的能力或品质，但不一定具有创造力；也可泛指某人在某一方面突出的个人才能。

  knack n. 〈非正式〉本事，技能

〔辨析〕指人天生的或后天学来的某种技能或本领。

noun

1. one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind

   Synonym:    mental facultymodule

2. the body of teachers and administrators at a school
   1. the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university

   Synonym:    staff