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Broadcast: Feb 13, 2003
By Nancy Steinbach


This is the VOA Special English Education Report.


We continue our series of reports about how foreign students can study at an American college or university. Today, we tell about the oldest institution of higher learning 1 in the United States, Harvard University.


Harvard University began in sixteen-thirty-six in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Boston. The area was an English colony 2 settled mainly by Puritans who did not agree with the Anglican Church in England. The university was named after a Puritan religious leader, John Harvard. He gave the college four-hundred books when he died.


Today, Harvard has more than ninety libraries containing more than twelve-million books. The university includes Harvard College, Radcliffe College, and ten graduate schools. Its medical college, law school and business school are among the best in the country. It also offers graduate programs in government, education, religion and science.


Many years ago, Harvard students were all white men. Most of them were from rich families from northeastern states. That has changed. This year, about thirty-three percent of the first-year students at Harvard are from minority groups. These include African Americans, Asian Americans and Hispanic Americans. Almost fifty percent of first-year students are women.


Today, most Harvard students are not rich, although it is very costly 3 to study there. It costs more than thirty-five-thousand dollars for one year for tuition 4, room, food and personal expenses. Most of the students at Harvard have loans 5, financial aid or jobs that help pay for their education.


Many experts consider Harvard to be the best university in the United States. It is very difficult to be accepted to study there. More than nineteen-thousand high school students applied 6 to attend Harvard as undergraduates 8 last year. About one-thousand-six-hundred of them began studying there in September.


More than nineteen-thousand undergraduate 7 and graduate students are studying at Harvard this year. More than three-thousand are from outside the United States. Most of the foreign students are from Asia or Europe. Most are studying for graduate degrees. The Harvard International Office helps meet the needs of foreign students.


To find out more about Harvard, you can go to the university's Internet Web site. The address is w-w-w dot h-a-r-v-a-r-d dot e-d-u. (www.harvard.edu)


This V-O-A Special English Education Report was written by Nancy Steinbach.
1. Harvard University [5hB:v[d] n. 美国哈佛大学
2. financial aid 财政援助



n.学问,学识,学习;动词learn的现在分词
  • When you are learning to ride a bicycle,you often fall off.初学骑自行车时,常会从车上掉下来。
  • Learning languages isn't just a matter of remembering words.学习语言不仅仅是记些单词的事。
n.殖民地;(同类人的)聚居地
  • There lived a colony of bees on the tree.树上生活着一群蜜蜂。
  • They live in an artists'colony.他们住在艺术家聚居区。
adj.昂贵的,价值高的,豪华的
  • It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.维修这么一幢房子一定很昂贵。
  • This dictionary is very useful,only it is a bit costly.这本词典很有用,左不过贵了些。
n.(某一学科的)教学,讲授,指导,学费
  • Students can apply for individual tuition.学生可以申请个别指导。
  • Is this money enough for the tuition fee?这些钱交学费够吗?
n.借出物,借款( loan的名词复数 )v.借出,贷与(尤指钱)( loan的第三人称单数 );出借(贵重物品给博物馆等)
  • They are offering loans at extortionate rates of interest. 他们在放高利贷。
  • Government loans have been the salvation of several shaky business companies. 政府的贷款救活了几家濒临倒闭的公司。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
adj.应用的;v.应用,适用
  • She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
  • This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。
n.大学生,大学肆业生
  • Mr. Stone spent his undergraduate days in Columbia University,majoring in economics.斯通先生在哥伦比亚大学度过了他四年的大学生活,主修经济学。
  • During this time,they are called undergraduate students.在此期间,他们被称为大学本科生。
(未获学士学位的)大学生,大学肄业生( undergraduate的名词复数 ); 本科生
  • All undergraduates reading English attend a turtorial group each week. 所有攻读英语的本科生每周上一次导师辅导课。
  • This is a course for undergraduates. 这是为本科生开的一门课。
学英语单词
1-anthrylamine
adenomammectomy
aggregate fund in flow out flow
aibs
alyx
amount of precipitation
analysis of stomach
area pattern
backfeed
black rat snake
cancellation of adoption
Castelluccio del Sauri
ch'ang tzu
comitragedy
cross-reaction
cross-road
culture-flask
deloach
derganil
dual basing-point system
Edline
electric resistance humidifier
equitable conversion
equitization
factor modulus
feminine product
fenbufen
ferric pyrophosphate
field rivetting
first party dma
flanged hose coupling
flapstop
floruits
fog quenching
fractalizes
fusiform excision
fuzzy decision-tree
Good lenses, bad frames
group reinforcement
haubner
Hognestad's syndrome
honey granulation
husker with hydraulic roll-engagement
hyetal map
ICMRT
ill-judging
Indian mongoose
innerspace
interlocking matrix
joint sealing materials
king of beasts
kingoonyas
lamp-shades
langot
languorous
large coal
Lerne
leucomatous
make someone's hair stand on make someone's hair curl
mam-cu-sak
mechanical oil valve
methylethylcellulose
minimal detectable activity
Morocco agencies
morphometric cytology
multiple-beam radar
out of play
paper crop
paysant
peach pyralid moth
pinballed
polyploid state
positive stripe
presser beams
prociphilus tessellatuss
quadrillions
raw wound
Red Horde
repagination
right-cut tool
roll mandrel
rynesh
sandouville
scanning tunneling microscopy
script girl
serial sectioning
shakeel
ship communications
shop bell
smutmonger
social compensation hypothesis
spinae pubis
starter main shaft gear
take advantage of the loophole
tannenite (emplectite)
Tanner stages
tumor disease
uniflux tray S
vertical infection
walking boots
xoanon
York, C.