美国多所高校更名以招揽外国学生
文章来源:未知 文章作者:enread 发布时间:2017-06-16 08:46 字体: [ ]  进入论坛
(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
What's in a name? A lot, if you had asked Johnson State College and Lyndon State College in the US state of Vermont.
 
如果有人问美国佛蒙特州的约翰逊州立学院和林登州立学院,名字重要吗?它们会告诉你,非常重要。
 
The schools are now one, at least in name - Northern Vermont University - with two campuses 89 kilometers apart.
 
The name change was designed to attract foreign students willing to pay higher tuition. "University" just sounds better than "college".
 
NVU will welcome its first freshman1 class in the fall of 2018.
 
Across the United States schools have been trying to step up to the surge in foreign students, especially Chinese students. Last year, 328,547 Chinese studied in the US, accounting2 for 32 percent of all foreign students, according to the Institute of International Education.
 
But Vermont ranks low - 48th among the country's 50 states. Last year, a paltry3 1,712 foreign students studied in Vermont, 39 percent of them Chinese.
 
Currently, Lyndon has eight international students, including five from China; Johnson State has two international students, one from the United Kingdom and one from Bermuda.
 
Last year, the board of trustees of the state college system voted unanimously to unify4 Johnson and Lyndon State - but keeping each school's campus separate - to save money and increase revenue.


点击收听单词发音收听单词发音  

1 freshman 1siz9r     
n.大学一年级学生(可兼指男女)
参考例句:
  • 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。
2 accounting nzSzsY     
n.会计,会计学,借贷对照表
参考例句:
  • A job fell vacant in the accounting department.财会部出现了一个空缺。
  • There's an accounting error in this entry.这笔账目里有差错。
3 paltry 34Cz0     
adj.无价值的,微不足道的
参考例句:
  • The parents had little interest in paltry domestic concerns.那些家长对家里鸡毛蒜皮的小事没什么兴趣。
  • I'm getting angry;and if you don't command that paltry spirit of yours.我要生气了,如果你不能振作你那点元气。
4 unify okOwO     
vt.使联合,统一;使相同,使一致
参考例句:
  • How can we unify such scattered islands into a nation?我们怎么才能把如此分散的岛屿统一成一个国家呢?
  • It is difficult to imagine how the North and South could ever agree on a formula to unify the divided peninsula.很难想象南北双方在统一半岛的方案上究竟怎样才能达成一致。
TAG标签: name students college
发表评论
请自觉遵守互联网相关的政策法规,严禁发布色情、暴力、反动的言论。
评价:
表情:
验证码:点击我更换图片