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語源

From matriculation.

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• matric

名詞

Matric (uncountable)

1. (Ireland, historical, informal) The Matriculation Examination of the National University of Ireland (last held in 1992)
   • 1964 Winter, J. P. MacHale, “Selection for Degree Purposes in U.C.D.”, in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, volume 53, number 212, page 390:

     Entrance […] is on the basis of the Matriculation Examination (Matric) of the National University of Ireland (N.U.I.) held in June and September each year. […] Passes in the Leaving Certificate (L. C.) in the requisite subjects, or in the General Certificate of Education, Northern Ireland, are accepted as equivalent to Matric.

   • 1985, Mary Rose Callaghan, Confessions of a prodigal daughter, London: M. Boyars, →ISBN, page 28:

     As well as me failing the Matric, my lack of sophistication was the despair of my mother.

   • 1989 October 6, Christina Murphy, “The Points Race: British option not always the easy one”, in The Irish Times, page 8:

     She had sat the Leaving Cert over 3 weeks in June, the Matric over the first week in July and the College of Surgeons entrance exam in the second week in July.

   • 1992 September 22, Christina Murphy, “The Points Race: Cumbersome grants system needs reform”, in The Irish Times, page 2:

     to qualify for a grant you must have passed five subjects in the Leaving Cert […] Some students got their results in the matric and it is not recognised, so they lost their grant for that reason.

   • 2006, Máire MacSwiney Brugha, History's Daughter: A Memoir from the Only Child of Terence MacSwiney, Dublin: O'Brien, →ISBN, page 118:

     Now, finally, in September 1934, I entered my Matric year. […] I had six subjects – English, Maths, Latin, French, History and Irish – and in most of them I was quite competent, with the exception of Irish, of which I knew nothing. I learned everything off by heart for the Matric Irish.