dux
noun [ C ] Scottish English uk/dʌks/ us/dʌks/
成绩最优的学生
the best student in a school or class
My son Arjun was dux at the school. 我的儿子阿朱恩曾是学校的学霸。
The dux of the High School had somehow failed his Higher geography. 不知为什么，中学成绩最好的学生没有通过高等地理的考试。
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- He excelled academically and was offered a scholarship to a private school in Edinburgh, where he became joint dux.
- He was educated at Edinburgh Academy, where he was dux, and Magdalen College, Oxford.
- My name was the first to go on the Dux board in the new school hall.
- The dux, to whom I presented a prize, was the son of a local politician.
- Her name is there on a plaque commemorating past duxes.