VOA慢速英语20060921a
时间：2019-01-30 作者：英语课 分类：2006年慢速英语（九）月
EDUCATION REPORT - Choosing Between a College or a UniversityBy Nancy Steinbach
Broadcast: Thursday, September 21, 2006
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
What is the difference between a college and a university? This is the subject of part three in our series for students who want to attend a college or university in the United States.
Mount 1 Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts
Colleges and universities have many things in common. Both provide a greater understanding of the world and its past. Both provide education in the arts and sciences. And both can help prepare young people to earn a living.
Students who complete their undergraduate 2 studies either at a four-year college or a university receive a bachelor's degree. One difference is that many colleges do not offer graduate studies.
Universities are generally bigger, offer more programs and do more research.
Modern universities developed from those of the Middle Ages in Europe. The word university came from the Latin 3 universitas. This described a group of people organized for a common purpose.
The word college came from a Latin word with a similar meaning, collegium. In England, colleges were formed to provide students with places to live. Usually each group was studying the same thing. So college came to mean an area of study.
But a college can also be a part of a university. The first American universities divided their studies into a number of areas and called each one a college. This is still true.
Programs in higher learning 4 may also be called schools. The University of Arizona in Tucson, for example, has eighteen colleges and ten schools. They include the colleges of pharmacy 5, education, engineering 6 and law. They also include the schools of architecture, dance and public administration 7.
College is also used as a general term for higher education. A news report might talk about college students even if they include students at universities. Or someone might ask, Where do you go to college?
Today, most American colleges offer an area of study called liberal 8 arts. These are subjects first developed and taught in ancient Greece. They include language, philosophy and mathematics. The purpose was to train a person's mind instead of teaching 9 job skills.
And that's the VOA Special English Education Report, written by Nancy Steinbach. Our Foreign Student Series continues next week with a report about online education. You can find our reports at www.unsv.com. And international students can learn more about higher education in the United States at educationusa.state.gov. I'm Steve Ember.
- Their debts continued to mount up.他们的债务不断增加。
- She is the first woman who steps on the top of Mount Jolmo Lungma.她是第一个登上珠穆朗玛峰的女人。
- 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。
- She learned Latin without a master.她无师自通学会了拉丁语。
- Please use only Latin characters.请仅使用拉丁文字符。
- 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。
- She works at the pharmacy.她在药房工作。
- Modern pharmacy has solved the problem of sleeplessness.现代制药学已经解决了失眠问题。
- The science of engineering began as soon as man learned to use tools. 人类一学会使用工具,工程科学就开始了。
- It was the first great engineering works in the world. 这是世界上第一家大型的工程工厂。
- Who is in charge of the administration of your company?你们公司的行政工作由谁负责？
- The teachers are responsible to the school administration.教师向学校行政负责。
- He has a liberal attitude to divorce and remarriage.他对离婚和再婚看得很开。
- This country adopts a liberal foreign policy.该国采用的是开放的外交政策。