1-20《经济学家》读译参考.pdf

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Rebuilding the American dream machine
重建美国梦机器
Jan 19th 2006 | NEW YORK
From The Economist print edition
FOR America's colleges, January is a month of reckoning. Most applications for the next academic year beginning in the autumn have to be
made by the end of December, so a university's popularity is put to an objective standard: how many people want to attend. One of the more
unlikely offices to have been flooded with mail is that of the City University of New York (CUNY), a public college that lacks, among other
things, a famous sports team, bucolic campuses and raucous parties (it doesn't even have dorms), and, until recently, academic credibility.
对美国的大学而言,一月是一个清算的月份。⃞大多数要进入将于秋季开学的下一学年学****的申请必须在 12 月底前前完成,因此一所
大学的声望就有了客观依据:申请人的多少。⃞纽约城市大学,一所公立学院,与其他学校相比,它没有一支声名显赫的运动动队,没
有田园诗一般的校园,也没有喧嚣嘈杂的派对——甚至连宿舍都没有,而且,直到到最近也没取得学术上的可信度,可就是这所大学
的办办公室塞满了学生们寄来的申请函,这简直有些令人难以置信。⃞

A primary draw at CUNY is a programme for particularly clever students, launched in 2001. Some 1,100 of the 60,000 students at CUNY's
five top schools receive a rare thing in the costly world of American colleges: free education. Those accepted by CUNY's honours
programme pay no tuition fees; instead they receive a stipend of $7,500 (to help with general expenses) and a puter. Applications
for early admissions into next year's programme are up 70%.
城市大学主要吸引人的地方在于它为从 2001 年开始始为聪明过人的学生所设立的培养计划。⃞6 万名城市大学的五所顶尖学院学生中,
约有 1100 人能得到到“‚免费教育”‛,这在花费巨大的美国大学界可是一件稀罕事。⃞被纳入城市大学荣誉计划的学生无需支付学费,相
反,他们还获得一份 7500 美元的定期生活津贴(用于补助助日常开销)以及一本笔记本电脑。⃞这所学校申请尽早被批准进入下一学
年计划的学生达到到了 70% 。⃞

Admission has nothing to do with being an athlete, or a child of an alumnus, or having an influential sponsor, or being a member of a
particularly aggrieved ethnic group—criteria that are increasingly important at America's elite colleges. Most of the students who apply to the
honours e from relatively poor families, many of them immigrant