n.学科的分支；亚学科
Neuroscience, perhaps more than any other biological subdiscipline, will force us to confront questions of equity. 神经科学可能比其他任何生物学门更迫使我们面对平等的问题。
Endocrine disruption by environmental contaminants has recently emerged as a new subdiscipline of environmental toxicology. 近年来，在环境毒理学这门边缘学科中又诞生了一个新的领域，即环境污染对内分泌功能的扰乱。
Educational economics should become an interdisciplinarity of pedagogics and economics, but not a subdiscipline of them. 教育经济学必须发展成为经济学和教育学的交叉学科，而不仅仅是二者的分支学科。
Sociolinguistics emerged as a subdiscipline of linguistics studying all aspects of the relationship between language and society in 1960s. 社会语言学是语言学的一个重要分支，出现于二十世纪六十年代。社会语言学从社会的角度研究语言现象，也从语言的角度研究社会。
In the United States and the rest of the Anglophone world, “philosophy of law” is a subdiscipline of philosophy, a special branch of what is nowadays frequently called “normative theory. 在美国或是其他英语国家，“法哲学”是哲学的一个子学科，也就是我们现在称之为“规范理论”的那个哲学分支。
