School English is school, pronounced sku? l .

In addition to the most common school, there are other English words representing schools: university, college, department, institute. There is not much difference between these words. Sometimes some words can be used universally, and some usage rules will change with different regions and times.

Generally speaking, college is translated as "college", which is an integral part of a university and is often formed by the merger of several smaller colleges. It is worth noting that in Britain, universities are called universities, and in the United States, they are called colleges; ; Some smaller universities can also be called junior colleges. It can be seen that different regions often use different words.

College refers to American universities, British colleges and even middle schools; Therefore, middle schools in Hong Kong are rarely called middle schools but universities. The word "school" refers to both colleges and ordinary primary and secondary schools.

In a university, a department means a "department" (located under a college). For example, the college, research institute and foreign language college of a university include English department, Japanese department, Russian department, etc ... The departments here are used.