■人们去这些地方干在这些地方应该干的事时，上述词语的前面不用定冠词the。例如:
We go：
to bed (to sleep or as invalids) 上床睡觉或（病人）卧床
to church (to pray) 去教堂祷告
to court (as litigants) 上法院打官司
to hospital (as patients) 去医院就医
to prison (as prisoners) 进监狱坐牢
to school / college / university (to study) 去学校 / 学院 / 大学读书
■同样可以说：
in bed (sleeping or resting) 在床上（睡觉或休息）
at church (as worshippers) 在教堂做礼拜
例句： The university awarded him an honorary degree .
这所大学授给他名誉学位。
例句： The judge awarded costs to the defendant .
法官判由原告向被告支付诉讼费。
例句： It is the highest award a producer can receive .
这是一个制作人所能获得的最高奖项。
A few years after his graduation from a university the man acquired the reputation of being a philosopher.
这个人从大学毕业后不久就获得了哲学家的名声。
The university tenured him 2 years later.
两年后，大学授予他终身职位。
He studies in an university in Beijing.
他在北京一所大学学习。
※The university imparts information, but it imparts it imaginatively.——Alfred North Whitehead, British philosopher and mathematician大学提供信息，但它是富于想象力地提供信息。英国哲学家、数学家 怀特海 A N
