Academic

(adj.) hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result; 'an academic discussion'; 'an academic question' .

(adj.) marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects .

(adj.) associated with academia or an academy; 'the academic curriculum'; 'academic gowns' .

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• Moreover, the methods used for effective teaching of the languages were well developed; the inertia of academic custom was on their side. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• They put the stamp of their genius on certain inhuman practices, and of course it has been the part of the academic mind to imitate them ever since. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Politics, religion, science are subject to it,--in politics we call it conservative, in religion orthodox, in science we describe it as academic. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He retired from academic life, and was elected Democratic Governor of New Jersey in 1910. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• For the academic intelligence abstract and abstruse mathematics are tonic and an end in themselves. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Popular terms denoting knowledge have always retained the connection with ability in action lost by academic philosophies. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The encampment which preceded the commencement of academic studies was very wearisome and uninteresting. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The proverbial separation of town and gown, the cultivation of academic seclusion, operate in this direction. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Having obtained from this clerk a direction to the academic grove in question, I set out, the same afternoon, to visit my old schoolfellow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.

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