2006年VOA标准英语-New Orleans' Tulane University Re-opens
时间：2019-01-30 作者：英语课 分类：2006年VOA标准英语（一月）
By Ernest Leong
Washington, DC
17 January 2006
watch Tulane University report
Tulane University reopened after being closed for the entire fall semester
As New Orleans continues to recover from Hurricane Katrina, there are some signs of normalcy. Tulane, a nationally known university, and other area colleges, have repaired their campuses, and most of the students and faculty 1 have returned. Most, but not all.
------------------------------------------
Tulane University in New Orleans was home to roughly 10,000 students and faculty until Hurricane Katrina hit. When the levees broke, the once-beautiful campus was left under several meters of water.
Courtney Coffey
Beginning Tuesday, classes start again. Nearly 90 percent of Tulane's student body has returned, including Courtney Coffey.
"I just had faith that they were going to take the school and re-build it and get back on its feet as soon as possible."
Some students' parents found the sight of the bustling 2 campus a moving one. "I thought I was going to just cry my eyes out but it's fine,” said one mom. “I'm really glad it's [Tulane's] back on its feet."
Scott Cowen, Tulane President
The reconstruction 3 comes at a heavy price. Despite a $800-million endowment, Tulane cut 200 faculty and a number of staff. Tulane's President Scott Cowen said, "It is true we made a lot of difficult decisions and we're sorry that it negatively affected 4 anyone's lives. But we felt we had to take control of our own destiny and that's what we did."
Another way Mr. Cowen feels they can control their own destiny is by adding a new requirement for freshmen 5 -- community service.
Jennifer Goltche
Tulane Freshman 6 Jennifer Goltche agrees. "It's sort of incumbent 7 on me that I should be doing that I should come back and help start the city again. We just can't abandon it you know."
Yet some former students at New Orleans universities have done just that, choosing instead to attend schools in other parts of the United States.
There's a lot more work to be done around the town popularly nicknamed "The Big Easy". And with damages of almost $1 billion for college campuses alone, some are wondering -- how many of the returning students will want to stay?
- He has a great faculty for learning foreign languages.他有学习外语的天赋。
- He has the faculty of saying the right thing at the right time.他有在恰当的时候说恰当的话的才智。
- The market was bustling with life. 市场上生机勃勃。
- This district is getting more and more prosperous and bustling. 这一带越来越繁华了。
- The country faces a huge task of national reconstruction following the war.战后，该国面临着重建家园的艰巨任务。
- In the period of reconstruction,technique decides everything.在重建时期，技术决定一切。
- She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
- His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
- We are freshmen and they are sophomores. 我们是一年级学生，他们是二年级学生。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- University freshmen get lots of razzing, but they like the initiation. 大一新生受各种嘲弄，但是他们对这种入门经验甘之如饴。 来自辞典例句
- Jack decided to live in during his freshman year at college.杰克决定大一时住校。
- He is a freshman in the show business.他在演艺界是一名新手。