1640s, "of or suitable for the Sabbath," from Latin sabbaticus, from Greek sabbatikos "of the Sabbath" (see Sabbath). Noun meaning "a year's absence granted to researchers" (originally one year in seven, to university professors) is from 1934, short for sabbatical year, etc., first recorded 1886 (the thing itself is attested from 1880, at Harvard), related to sabbatical year (1590s) in Mosaic law, the seventh year, in which land was to remain untilled and debtors and slaves released.
双语例句
1. He's been on sabbatical writing a novel.
他一直在休假写一部小说。
来自柯林斯例句
2. to take a year's sabbatical
享受一年的公休假
来自《权威词典》
3. He spent his sabbatical year doing research in Moscow.
他花了他的教师休假年在莫斯科做研究.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. Professor Robins is on sabbatical this year.
罗宾士教授今年在度他的休假年.
来自辞典例句
5. I've devoted my sabbatical to greenhouse trace gases.