subject

英 ['sʌbdʒekt; 'sʌbdʒɪkt] 美[ˈsʌbdʒekt]

• n. 主题；科目；[语] 主语；国民
• adj. 服从的；易患…的；受制于…的
• vt. 使…隶属；使屈从于…

1. the subject matter of a conversation or discussion;

"he didn't want to discuss that subject"

"it was a very sensitive topic"

"his letters were always on the theme of love"

2. some situation or event that is thought about;

"he kept drifting off the topic"

"he had been thinking about the subject for several years"

"it is a matter for the police"

3. a branch of knowledge;

"in what discipline is his doctorate?"

"teachers should be well trained in their subject"

"anthropology is the study of human beings"

4. something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation;

"a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject"

5. a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation;

"the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly"

"the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities"

6. a person who owes allegiance to that nation;

"a monarch has a duty to his subjects"

7. (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated

8. (logic) the first term of a proposition