senior
adj
1 ~ (to sb)
(a) older 較年長的
He is ten years senior to me. 他比我大十歲.
(b) higher in rank, authority, etc (級別、 權位等)較高的
There are separate rooms for senior and junior officers. 高級軍官和下級軍官的房間是分著的.
He is the senior partner in (ie the head of) the firm. 他是公司的老板.
(c) having been in a job, etc longer (做某工作等)年資較深的
She is senior to me, since she joined the firm before me. 她比我資格老, 因為她加入公司比我早.2 (often 常作 Senior, abbr 縮寫 Sen) (placed immediately after sb's name 置於姓名之後) being the parent of sb with the same name (父或母與子女同名情況下的)父或母
John Brown Senior 老約翰?布朗. 3 [attrib 作定語]
(of a school) for children over the age of 11 (指學校)高年級的(學生年齡在11歲以上的). Cf 參看 junior. senior, n
1 senior person 較年長的人: She is my senior by two years/two years my senior, ie is two years older than me. 她比我大兩歲.
2 member of a senior school 高年級學生
a football match between the juniors and the seniors 低年級學生和高年級學生之間的足球賽.
3 (US) student in the year before graduation from a high school or college (中學或大學的)畢業班的學生
[attrib 作定語]
her senior year at college 她在大學畢業班那一年.