dean
n
1 clergyman who is head of a cathedral chapter 教长(大教堂教士中职位最高者); 主任牧师.
2 (also ,rural `dean) (esp Brit) clergyman who is responsible for a number of parishes (乡区的)主任牧师(主管若干牧区).
3
(a) (in some universities) person who is responsible for discipline (在某些大学中的)学监.
(b) head of a university department of studies (大学的)系主任
dean of the faculty of law 法律系系主任.
4 (US) = doyen.
Anthropologists wondered where the remote ancestors of the Polynesian peoples now living in the Pacific Islands came from.The sagas of these people explain that some of them came from Indonesia about 2,000 years ago.