- 1〔進級できないこと〕
- 長期欠席のため彼は落第しなければならなかった
- He had to 「repeat the same grade [《英》 repeat the year/stay down] because he had been absent for so long.
- 2〔試験での失敗〕failure (in an examination);〔検査ではねられること〕rejection
落第する fail in an examination
- 化学で落第した
- I failed [《口》 flunked] (in) chemistry.
- その教師は数学で5人落第させた
- The teacher failed [《口》 flunked] five students in mathematics.
- その品は輸出品として落第だった
- The article wasn't accepted for export.
- 彼は教師としては落第だ
- He is 「a failure [no good] as a teacher.
- 落第生a repeater
- 落第点a failing mark
- 3科目に落第点をとった
- He failed (in) three subjects.