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时间：2019-01-30 作者：英语课 分类：2006年慢速英语（八）月
EDUCATION REPORT - Fulbright Exchange Program Turns 60By Nancy Steinbach
Broadcast: Thursday, August 03, 2006
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
This week is the sixtieth anniversary 1 of the Fulbright Program of international educational exchanges. On August first, nineteen forty-six, President Harry 2 Truman signed legislation 3 to create the program.
Fulbright grants 4 are given to graduate students, to scholars and professionals, and to teachers and administrators 5. Today about six thousand people each year receive grants. People come to the United States to study or teach, while Americans go to other countries.
The Fulbright program operates in about one hundred fifty countries. Around two hundred seventy-five thousand people have taken part over the years. Some have gone on to become Nobel Prize winners and leaders in areas like business, technology and politics.
Those who take part in the program are called Fulbright scholars or Fulbrighters. They receive money for travel, education and living costs. The program is paid for by the United States government and by foreign governments and private groups.
Thomas Farrell is a deputy 6 assistant secretary in the State Department which supervises 7 the program. He says that right now the number of American students who want to spend a year as a Fulbright scholar is at the highest point ever. And, he says, so is the number of Fulbright scholarships they are being awarded. The number is close to one thousand two hundred a year.
William Fulbright
In nineteen forty-six of Arkansas proposed 8 the legislation to create the program. At that time, just after World War Two, he saw the idea as a way to improve world understanding.
Senator 9 Fulbright thought exchanges would help people better understand other ways of life as well as their own. He believed the program could educate future world leaders.
You can learn more about the program online from the Bureau 10 of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the State Department. We have a link to the Web site at www.unsv.com, where you can also download archives of our reports and listen online.
And that's the VOA Special English Education Report, written by Nancy Steinbach. A program note -- in September we will begin our Foreign Student Series. This is information about how to attend school in the United States. So please send us your questions. Write to special@voanews.com. We cannot answer mail personally, but we might answer your question during our series. I'm Steve Ember.
- They celebrate their wedding anniversary annually.他们每年庆祝一番结婚纪念日。
- Today is my parents'30th wedding anniversary.今天是我父母结婚30周年纪念日。
- Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天，人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
- Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。
- They began to draft legislation.他们开始起草法规。
- The liberals band together against the new legislation.自由党员联合一致反对新的立法。
- Higher education grants are a carrot with which to entice students. 高等教育的助学金是吸引学生的诱惑物。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Grants for the arts are not too thick on the ground these years. 这几年提供给艺术的补助金并不很多。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He had administrators under him but took the crucial decisions himself. 他手下有管理人员，但重要的决策仍由他自己来做。 来自辞典例句
- Administrators have their own methods of social intercourse. 办行政的人有他们的社交方式。 来自汉英文学 - 围城
- John will act as a deputy for me during my absence.我离开期间，约翰将代理我的职务。
- She is the deputy headmistress of the school.她是那所学校的代理校长。
- The group leader supervises a dozen workers. 组长管十二个工人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He makes the wines and supervises the vineyards. 他酿酒并管理葡萄园。 来自辞典例句
- There is widespread discontent among the staff at the proposed changes to pay and conditions. 员工对改变工资和工作环境的建议普遍不满。
- an outcry over the proposed change 对拟议的改革所发出的强烈抗议
- The senator urged against the adoption of the measure.那参议员极力反对采取这项措施。
- The senator's speech hit at government spending.参议员的讲话批评了政府的开支。