a period of time when somebody, especially a teacher at a university, is allowed to stop their normal work in order to study or travel （尤指供大学教师进行学术研究或旅游的）公休假，休假 to take a year’s sabbatical 享受一年的公休假 - on sabbatical
He's on sabbatical this term. 这个学期他正休假。 a sabbatical term/year 休假学期／学年
Oxford Collocations DictionarySabbatical is used before these nouns:- leave
- year
Word Originlate 16th cent.: via late Latin from Greek sabbatikos ‘of the sabbath’ + -al.