📖 牛津释义
General Certificate of Secondary Education
(abbr 缩写 GCSE), (certificate for passing) any of a range of examinations introduced in Britain in the late 1980s to replace both the Ordinary level GCE and the CSE 普通中等教育证书（的考试）（在英国80年代末采用, 以取代普通教育和中等教育的普通级考试）. Cf 参看 A/S level, Certificate of Secondary Education, General Certificate of Education.
🧩 词语组成解析
certificate
[sɚ'tɪfɪkət]
n. 证明书;文凭，结业证书;
vt. 发给证明书;用证书证明（或认可）;
cert 搞清 + ifi=fy表动词 + cate表名词 → certify搞清楚=证明+ cate表名词 → 证件
of
[əv]
prep. 关于;属于…的;由…制成;
aux. 助动词 [非标准用语、方言] =have [主用于虚拟语气];
secondary
['sɛkəndɛri]
adj. 第二的，中等的;助手，副手;中等教育的;间接的;
n. 副手，代理人;[天]双星中较小较暗的一个，卫星;[语]次重音;
second第二+ary...的→第二的
🗣️ 情景例句
I heard a lot of shouting, what's up?
我听见很多喊声，出了什么事了？
You're a very beautiful woman. You should try this one. I'm sure you'll be more beautiful than ever.
你是位美人儿。且试一试这个，肯定会让你变得更美丽的。
We owe a lot to the birds and beasts who eat insects but all of them put together kill only a fraction of the number destroyed by spiders.
我们要十分感谢那些吃昆虫的鸟和兽，然而把它们所杀死的昆虫全部加在一起也只相当于蜘蛛所消灭的一小部分。