英 [ˌɪnstɪˈtjuːʃ(ə)n] 美 [ˌɪnstɪˈtuːʃ(ə)n]
n. 机构，团体；社会收容机构；制度，习俗；建立，制定；知名的人（或事物）
复数institutions
institution /ˌɪnstɪˈtjuːʃən/ CET4 TEM4
An institution is a large important organization such as a university, church, or bank. 机构
...financial institutions.
…金融机构。
An institution is a building where certain people are cared for, such as people who are mentally ill or children who have no parents. 社会福利机构
Larry has been in an institution since he was four.
拉里从4岁起就在孤儿院生活。
可数名词 An institution is a custom or system that is considered an important or typical feature of a particular society or group, usually because it has existed for a long time. 习俗; 制度
I believe in the institution of marriage.
我相信婚姻制度。
不可数名词 The institution of a new system is the act of starting it or bringing it in. 建立
There was never an official institution of censorship in Albania.
阿尔巴尼亚从来就没有正式建立过审查制度。
an organization founded and united for a specific purpose
同义词： establishment
an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated
a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society
the institution of marriage ; the institution of slavery ; he had become an institution in the theater
the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
同义词： initiation / founding / foundation / origination / creation / innovation / introduction / instauration
a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
同义词： mental hospital / psychiatric hospital / mental institution / mental home / insane asylum / asylum
机构
公共机构
制度
制度（Institution）是决定经济增长的关键变量，按制度学派诺斯的说法，资本、劳动力和技术等投入要素的增长只是增长带来的结果，“它们乃是增长”（...
... institute n.学会,探讨所;学院 v.建立,配置,订定 institution n.年夜家机构;协会;黉舍;探讨所;轨制;惯例 instruct v.教,教授;命令,指示 ...
institutional 制度的；制度上的；学会的
institutionalized 使成惯例的；有组织的；遭受收容机构所产生的不良影响的
institutionalised 制度化的
institutive 成例的；有关创设的
institute 学会，协会；学院
institutionalized 使成为惯例（institutionalize的过去式和过去分词）
institutionalised 制度化（institutionalise的过去分词）
[管理]制度；建立；（社会或宗教等）公共机构；习俗
I believe in the institution of marriage.
我相信婚姻制度。
Bernard works at the same institution as Arlette.
伯纳德与阿莱特在同一个机构工作。
The European Parliament is not an institution which excites interest in voters.
欧洲议会是个激不起选民兴趣的机构。
America's plant museum and the Horticultural Services Division of the Smithsonian Institution are presenting the show "Orchids: A Cultural Odyssey."
VOA : special.2010.04.06
Nonetheless, The Faerie Queenecan be said, however strangely, to be the first great poetic celebration in English of the institution of marriage.
然而无论《仙后》多么与众不同，它仍可被称为，第一部伟大的有关婚姻的,英文诗歌体盛典。
弥尔顿课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
and went down to California to go to my undergraduate institution, which was Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.
之后我去了加利福尼亚州，在位于圣路易斯-奥比斯波县的加州理工大学读本科。
SpeakingMax英语口语达人 : 已经成经济学学徒了
Professor Atema works with Boston University and the Marine Biological Laboratory at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, both in Massachusetts.
VOA : special.2010.08.03
To celebrate Darwin and his idea, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington created a special exhibit.
VOA : special.2009.12.01
But the institution would only consider selling works by living artists and with their permission.
Their buyers now need to show licenses indicating that they are a shop or other institution.
We believe that opening it up to same-sex couples will strengthen, not weaken, the institution.