“Visiting Scholar”怎么译?

笔者以visiting scholar的身份赴英国剑桥大学学习,见visiting scholar常译成"访问学者",颇存异义。从表面上看,visiting scholar与"访问学者"对应得天衣无缝,其实,scholar的意义比"学者"广而模糊。据Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary (8th edition,1977),它可以是:1)one who attends a school or studies under a teacher(上学或从师的人);