Word · Frequency #14401
schoolteacher
中小学教师；教师
a teacher in a school below the college level
通常指中小学教师，不指大学教师。
- 1.
A teacher working in a school.
在学校任教的教师；学校教师
在学校任教的教师；学校教师；教师
In use
My aunt is a schoolteacher at a primary school in Hangzhou.
The schoolteachers at the local middle school often stay late to prepare lessons.
We asked a retired schoolteacher to tutor my brother in math.
be a schoolteacher
schoolteacher 指中小学教师，不用于大学教师。
She is a schoolteacher at a primary school.
她是一所小学的教师。
work as a schoolteacher
He works as a schoolteacher in a village school.
他在一所乡村学校当教师。
a schoolteacher of + subject
表示具体科目时可用 schoolteacher of + 科目。
She is a schoolteacher of history.
她是一位历史教师。
Common mistakes
She is schoolteacher.She is a schoolteacher.
schoolteacher 是可数名词单数，前面需要不定冠词 a；汉语没有冠词，所以学习者容易漏掉。
My uncle is a schoolteacher at Peking University.My uncle is a teacher at Peking University.
schoolteacher 特指中小学（大学以下学校）的教师；在大学任教不能用 schoolteacher，要用 teacher 或 professor。汉语的“教师”可泛指，所以容易误用。
Connections
Collocations
- a retired schoolteacher
- 退休教师
- Her father, a retired schoolteacher, still helps children with their homework.她父亲是一位退休教师，仍然辅导孩子们做作业。
- a schoolteacher's salary
- 教师的工资
- A schoolteacher's salary is rarely enough to support a big family.教师的工资很难养活一个大家庭。
- work as a schoolteacher
- 当教师，以教师为业
- She works as a schoolteacher in a small town.她在一个小镇当教师。
- a qualified schoolteacher
- 合格的教师
- You need to be a qualified schoolteacher to teach in most public schools.在大多数公立学校任教，你需要是一名合格的教师。
- village schoolteacher
- 乡村教师
- The village schoolteacher taught all the children in one classroom.这位乡村教师在一个教室里教所有孩子。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
联想：school（学校）+ teacher（老师），合起来就是学校里的老师，特指中小学教师，区别于大学教授。
Context & Register
语域：neutral 常见场景：school environments、describing someone's occupation schoolteacher 通常指中小学教师，属于中性常用词，正式或日常场合都可以使用。
Pronunciation & Spelling
teacher, preacher, creature and feature all rhyme with the '-teacher' part of schoolteacher (/iːtʃə/). school matches the first syllable (/skuːl/). scholar looks similar to school but is pronounced /ˈskɒlə/, not /skuːl/.
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.