賴世雄高級(jí)13課
Hi, everyone, and welcome again to Radio English on Sunday.
This is Bruce,
/ and this is Peter.
/ Join us today on page one hundred two for unit thirteen. Last week we talked about one of the world's best museums, today we talk about some of the world's best universities in our lesson entitled the Ivy League Schools: Excellence in Education.
/ 這是指的一些美國的私立大學(xué)。
As usual, we'll read paragraph by paragraph, and then explain each paragraph, then at the end of the program, I'll reread the whole article for you. Listen carefully, please, to the first reading of the first paragraph.
The first permanent English settlement in the New World was at Plymouth Bay in what in now the state of Massachusetts in sixteen twenty. Merely 16 years later, a group of successful settlers in New Town, renamed Cambridge after their alma mater, started a college. They named it after the Periton Minister who willed half of his estate and all his books to the college. This clergyman's name was John Harvard, and his namesake remains the most prestigious among the more than two thousand institutes of higher education in the US today.
___________clergyman
A man who is a member of the clergy.
牧師神職人員中的男性成員
The introductory paragraph is as...some historic background on Harvard University. (大概是哈佛), probably the most famous university in the US, and the one considered the best, among all the two thousand or more higher education institutes up the US. We go back to sixteen thirty six, this was America's first college, which later became a university, so it has more than, let's see here, three hundred and sixty seven years' history.
/ What a miser. haha. 計(jì)算數(shù)字特別快
Well, Bruce is quite good at memorizing figures, or numbers. In fact he's not a miser; he is as generous as can be.
/ Ok, should we go ahead or ..
/ Well, I do have several words that I have to ask you to explain. The first word is on line five, we have this word to the end, or rather at the end, we have this particular word, "will". Usually this word is a helping verb. "I will...I will do something. ", but "will" can also be used as a noun---at will,
/ Uhh...you cannot throw your litter at will, or you will be fined.
/ litter, garbage,
可是這個(gè)litter還有一個(gè)很怪的用法，a litter of, 狗，貓啊，一窩的，
/ a litter of pigs, a litter of cats,
/ 這里的will卻是用作了動(dòng)詞，加了ed,
/ Right. Well, here "will" is used as a transitive verb,
to will your money,
to will your home,
to will your property to...others, usually your hunband or your wife or your children. If you have things that you want to give people after you die, you will things to them.
/ will, 通常還有一個(gè)名詞的意思，(除了at will外)， 指遺囑，last will, one's last will.
As a verb, "to will something to someone."
Ok, let's go ahead to the next paragraph, which tells us more about Harvard and the other Ivy League Schools.
Harvard is not the only great school in the US, of course. A small industry has grown up around the ranking of the best tertiary schools, and year after year, seven schools dominate most of these top twenty or top fifty lists. Harvard is nearly always at, or close to, the top, joined frequently by Yele, (in Connetikit, 地名) Presiden ( in New Jersey 地名) , Darknet (in New Hansher, 地名), Cornale (in New York state), Columbia (in New York city), the university of (Pensilvaia 地名) and Brond (in Rold Island. 地名). These eight private universities are collectively referred to as the Ivy League Schools.
Well, we started all (of?) talking about Harvard as being, probably the best known, if not, also the best university in the US, but there are seven other schools, whose names we are often familiar with, because we hear about them so often. Certainly Yele and Pensiton are world-famous, probably also Cornao, Columbia, and maybe the university of Pensivania. Two other smaller schools but very high quality, and Darnet and Bron.
These eight private universities, there are not state universities, there private universities together are often called the Ivy League schools.
/ Well, these are schools that are no doubt, you know, top-notch schools, around the United States. Top-notch schools means very very good schools in the US, but there is one school that I would like to specifically mention, Prinston, because for those who are interested in studying in the US, this is a school that you have to very mind, because this school is responsible for all kinds of English tests, including Tofel, GRE, GMD, things like that.
/ Very very good school. We'll find out more about Prinston later. Let me spell the "top notch" for you. "top-notch". 拔尖的，第一流的，好的，
Sometimes we just say "a top school.", but you hear some people say "a top-notch school". Also the same idea, the best or one of the best.
/ ..be referred to as...---> be called
He is referred to as a hero...no, the sentence is wrong. It should be "Peter is referred to as, Peter Lai is referred to as a hero." :D
OK, let's go ahead.
Why the name? Ivy is a vine, that is, a plant which grows up, or along the surface of other plants such as trees or, in the human landscape, along the sides of stone buildings. As these eight universities are old, the youngest among them Cornell was founded in eighteen fifty three, Ivy has had plenty of time to decorate the outsides of the more historic buildings on these campuses. The the "League", however, is more an invention of imagination than the reality. Though there is an association called the Ivy League, it refers to the above schools' participation in an American football athletic conference rather than to any academic alliance. Further, despite the lengthy academic lineage of these schools, the footballing Ivy League was not formally formed until nineteen fifty six. Though high competitive football, and other athletic games, has been hotly contested among the schools for many generations.
This paragraph tries to explain why we call these eight universities "the Ivy League Schools". "Ivy" is a type of plant, and we can see it growing up in the long side stone buildings, old stone buildings on campuses, and from sixteen thirty six, to eighteen fifty three, this a little over two hundred years of history, these old old buildings are now covered with ivy. Now there is an ivy league but refers to these eight universities, which cooperate in a special football athletic conference. They had their own special competition. But that only started in nineteen fifty six. Actually, many of these schools, especially, Harvard and Yele, have had many kinds of competitions which are quite famous and much older than nineteen fifty six. So, ivy league is not the kind of...uhh, association you would think of, being an academic, many professors coming together to discuss things together. No, Ivy League actually refers to a football conference rather than an academic association.
/..Hey, how about the university ...(非常模糊, 可能是一個(gè)什么鳥學(xué)校的名字)
/ Very good school.
/ Yeah,
/ It ..many ..are in the next groups of very good universities.
/ competitive, compete, competent,
During the highly competitive (ancros) examination, he qualified as a student enter Harvard.
competent...I can find that word in my dictionary.
/ That's on every page of your dictionary.
"Competent" means that you can do the work that you are supposed to do, or you have the skills or knowledge to do something, uhh, which you need to do or your company or your school need you to do. competent.
/ But we have a very good and difficult word, "high-caliber,"
/ "high-calibre" means among the best of something or great. British English is probably "calibre". American English often use "caliber".
A high-caliber (technition), somebody who can operate machinery and does it very very well.
/ 相當(dāng)于有能力的技術(shù)人員，叫high-caliber. _________金山詞霸查不到這個(gè)字。
contest, 第一個(gè)章節(jié)重讀的時(shí)候是名詞。第二個(gè)章節(jié)重讀的時(shí)候是動(dòng)詞。
There is a speech contest tomorrow. n,
______lineage,
Direct descent from a particular ancestor; ancestry.
直系后代某祖先的直系后代；后代
Derivation.
衍生
The descendants of a common ancestor considered to be the founder of the line.
同一世系的后代擁有共同祖先的世系的始祖的后代
descent, extraction.
Ok, let's continue with the next paragraph.
Since these institutes of higher learning had such an early start in the history of the US, it is not surprising that they should individually and collectively have exerted a great influence on American society. Their status within national scholarly circles is unparalleled. Admission to these universities is highly demanding. For every student lucky enough to accepted, many objected. As these universities are private, they are relatively expensive. Offsetting these extremely high tuition are many opportunities for scholarships. These scholarships are awarded to meritorious students regardless of their backgrounds.
Well now, we find out more about the inside of these schools. You would expect great schools to have great students, and that is the case. We'll find out more about the influence of these universities on American society in the next couple of paragraphs; but if you are thinking about attending one of these universities, remember that they are highly demanding. That is, it's not very easy to get into or be accepted to them. Also they are quite expensive. However, there're many scholarships available, including some scholarships for foreign students. So as we say, nothing ventured, nothing gained. You can at least try to get into one of these universities, who knows? You might get lucky.
/ Nothing ventured, nothing gained, if there's nothing is ventured, nothing will be gained.
Ok, let's continue.
Additionally, the roster of the faculties of these schools reads like a Who's Who list of important Americans, and quite a few foreigners as well. Their intellectual integrity shows in the number of Nobel and other major prizes awarded, which they have garnered over the years. Some of the country's most famous doctors, statesmen, engineers, scientists, and educationists have studied and taught within these ivy covered walls. No fewer than fourteen US Presidents have earned degrees here, including six at Harvard, six at Yale, and two at Princeton.
Here we find out about some of the influence that these universities have exerted on American society or had a great effort on American society. The (envy) Nobel Prizes and many other prizes awarded to people at a highest level of their professions. Even, US presidents, fourteen of them have studied at these Ivy League Schools and received degrees there.
/ That's really amazing.
_________roster,
A list, especially of names.
花名冊(cè)，登記表
A list of the names of military officers and enlisted personnel enrolled for active duty.
值勤人員表軍官和入伍的現(xiàn)役軍人的名單
_____________faculty,
pl. fac.ul.ties;abbr:fac.
【復(fù)數(shù)】 fac.ul.ties;abbr:fac.
An inherent power or ability.
天賦先天的智能或能力
Any of the powers or capacities possessed by the human mind.
能力，技能人的智力所具有的能力或才能
See: ability
The ability to perform or act.
實(shí)行或行動(dòng)能力
Any of the divisions or comprehensive branches of learning at a college or university:
學(xué)院大學(xué)或?qū)W院里的分支機(jī)構(gòu)或?qū)W術(shù)的廣泛的分支：
the faculty of law.
法學(xué)院
The teachers and instructors within such a division.
全體教師高等院校分支機(jī)構(gòu)的全體教師或講師
A body of teachers.
教師團(tuán)體
All of the members of a learned profession:
學(xué)術(shù)性專業(yè)的全體成員：
the medical faculty.
全體醫(yī)學(xué)界成員
Authorization granted by authority; conferred power.
（授予的）權(quán)威，權(quán)力特權(quán)授予的權(quán)力；授予的權(quán)力
Archaic
【古語】
An occupation; a trade.
職業(yè)；生意
faculty
古法語faculte<拉丁語facultas [5fAk(E)ltI]
n
-ties
才能
She has the faculty to learn languages easily.
她有輕而易舉學(xué)會(huì)語言的才能。
These girls have the faculty to learn languages easily.
這幾個(gè)女孩擅長(zhǎng)學(xué)習(xí)語言。
（大學(xué)的）分科，學(xué)院，系
the Faculty of Arts
文學(xué)院
the Faculty of Science
理學(xué)院
大學(xué)全體教師；中學(xué)全體教師
faculty meeting
教授會(huì)
an excellent mathematics faculty
優(yōu)秀的數(shù)學(xué)教授陣容
n.
才能, 能力, 技能; 資質(zhì); 天賦
(大學(xué)的)院; 系; 全體教員
[美](大學(xué)或?qū)W院的)全體教職員
任何一種職業(yè)的全體從業(yè)人員
(授譽(yù)的)權(quán)力, 權(quán)限
the faculty of memory
記憶力
the imaginative faculty
想象力
the students and faculty
全院師生
the faculty of law [medicine, theology]
法律[醫(yī)學(xué), 神學(xué)]系
F-of Engineering
工學(xué)院
the medical faculty
醫(yī)界同人
Though only a select few can join the ranks as Ivy Leaguers each year, Americans are endowed with a world-class tertiary educational system second to none. Not every graduate from an Ivy League school makes the grade in life, even the first rate education is no guarantee of success. Still, those who do enter and leave the Ivy League universities in the Northeastern US, have a much better than average chance to join a ranks of movers and shakers of not only the US society, but, once back in their home countries, of their native lands as well.
Here of course, we're reminding people that a university degree, that piece of paper, does not guarantee you success in life. You still have to learn how to work with other people, and how to do your own thinking; how to create your own opportunities in life. Well, that's true for everybody. And if you do have a degree from one of these Ivy League schools, you probably have a better than average chance of becoming a successful person. But you still need to work. You still need to think; and you still need to relate well to the other people around you. So, a good education is a good chance in life. But it's not the only requirement you'll need to become a successful person.
/ In other words, it's your own hard work that will make you different from others. Basically, of course a ..only a very good, or having a very good diploma or certificate may give you a brighter opportunity or brighter future, but if you don't work hard, you will get nowhere.
/ You get it.
/ Be endowed with,
/ Ok, it's usually used in the (pass of voice) as it is here, we could say, for example, that "north America is endowed with a lot of good agricultural land." That means the condition or the state or the background of the place already has many things to offer. Or "Harvard has been endowed with a lot of money for scholarships for students."
/ Yeah, here is endowed with a very good voice or singing voice. 他天生就有很棒的歌喉。
endow, v,
en.dowed; en.dow.ing; en.dows;
To provide with property, income, or a source of income.
資助，捐贈(zèng)提供財(cái)產(chǎn)、收入或收入來源
To equip or supply with a talent or quality:
賦予，賜予具有或賦予資質(zhì)、才能：
Nature endowed her with a beautiful singing voice.
大自然賦予她一副美妙的歌喉
To imagine as having a usually favorable trait or quality:
想象，給予想象為帶有討人喜歡的才能或品性：
endowed the family pet with human intelligence.
想象賦予家庭寵物以人的智慧
endow with
賦予；天賦：
endowed with genius
有天才
She is endowed with great writing ability.
她具有杰出的寫作天賦。
賦與, 天賦
捐助; 捐贈(zèng)基金給(學(xué)校、醫(yī)院等)
He is endowed with genius.
他賦有天才。
Our great motherland is favorably endowed climately.
我們祖國的氣候(真是)得天獨(dú)厚。
...
/ 我每天都搬桌子，搖桌子，can I be regarded as, you know, join in the ranks of the movers and shakers?
/ :D, no, this phrase "movers and shakers" refers to influential people, people who influence their society, usually by making progressive changes in that society.
其實(shí)就是非常有影響力的人，呼風(fēng)喚雨的人，
Well, I hope you'll get a chance to study either in your own country or overseas; education is a kind of treasure. And we will be talking about another...
_________________Pan聽寫于2003年6月。
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Lesson 13,
The Ivy League Schools: Excellence in Education.
常春藤盟校－－教育界的佼佼者
The first permanent English settlement in the New World was at Plymouth Bay in what in now the state of Massachusetts in 1620. Merely 16 years later, a group of successful settlers in New Town (renamed Cambridge after their alma mater) started a college. They named it after the Puritan minister who willed half his estate and all his books to the college. This clergyman's name was John Harvard, and his namesake remains the most prestigious among the more than 2000 institutes of higher education in the United States today.
Harvard is not the only great school in the US, of course. A small industry has grown up around the ranking of the best tertiary schools, and year after year, seven schools dominate most of these Top Twenty or Top Fifty lists. Harvard is nearly always at or close to the top, joined frequently by Yale (in Connecticut), Princeton (in New Jersey), Dartmouth (in New Hampshire), Cornell (in New York state), Columbia (in New York city), the University of Pennsylvania, and Brown (in Rhode Island). These eight private universities are collectively referred to as the Ivy League schools.
Why the name? Ivy is a vine; that is, a plant which grows up or along the surface of other plants such as trees, or, in the human landscape, along the sides of stone buildings. As these eight universities are old (the youngest among them, Cornell, was founded in 1853), ivy has had plenty of time to decorate the outsides of the more historic buildings on these campuses. The word league, however, is more an invention of imagination than a reality. Though there is an association called the Ivy League, it refers to the above schools' participation in an American football athletic conference rather than to any academic alliance. Further, despite the lengthy academic lineage of these schools, the footballing Ivy League was not formally formed until 1956, though highly cometitive football and other athletic games have been hotly contested among the schools for many generations.
Since these institutes of higher learning had such an early start in the history of the United States, it is not surprising that they should individually and collectively have exerted a great influence on American society. Their status whithin national scholarly circles is unparalleled. Admission to these universities is highly demanding: many students apply for every one lucky enough to be accepted.As these universities are private, they are relatively expensive. Offsetting the extremely high tuition are many opportunities for scholarships. These scholarships are awarded to meritorious students regardless of their backgrounds.
Additionally, the roster of the faculties of these schools reads like a Who's Who list of important Americans (and quite a few foreigners, as well). Their intellectual integrity shows in the number of Nobel and other major prizes awarded which they have garnered over the years. Some of the country's most famous doctors, statesmen, engineers, scientists, and educationists have studied and taught within these ivy-covered walls. No fewer than 14 US presidents have earned degrees here, including six at Harvard, six at Yale, and two at Princeton.
Though only a select few can join the ranks as Ivy Leaguers each year, Americans are endowed with a world-class tertiary educational system second to none. Not every graduate from an Ivy League school "makes the grade" in life; even a first-rate education is no guarantee of success. Still, those who do enter and leave the Ivy League universities in the northeastern United States have a much better than average chance to join the ranks of the movers and shakers of not only the US cociety, but, once back in their home countries, of their native lands as well.
Hi, everyone, and welcome again to Radio English on Sunday.
This is Bruce,
/ and this is Peter.
/ Join us today on page one hundred two for unit thirteen. Last week we talked about one of the world's best museums, today we talk about some of the world's best universities in our lesson entitled the Ivy League Schools: Excellence in Education.
/ 這是指的一些美國的私立大學(xué)。
As usual, we'll read paragraph by paragraph, and then explain each paragraph, then at the end of the program, I'll reread the whole article for you. Listen carefully, please, to the first reading of the first paragraph.
The first permanent English settlement in the New World was at Plymouth Bay in what in now the state of Massachusetts in sixteen twenty. Merely 16 years later, a group of successful settlers in New Town, renamed Cambridge after their alma mater, started a college. They named it after the Periton Minister who willed half of his estate and all his books to the college. This clergyman's name was John Harvard, and his namesake remains the most prestigious among the more than two thousand institutes of higher education in the US today.
___________clergyman
A man who is a member of the clergy.
牧師神職人員中的男性成員
The introductory paragraph is as...some historic background on Harvard University. (大概是哈佛), probably the most famous university in the US, and the one considered the best, among all the two thousand or more higher education institutes up the US. We go back to sixteen thirty six, this was America's first college, which later became a university, so it has more than, let's see here, three hundred and sixty seven years' history.
/ What a miser. haha. 計(jì)算數(shù)字特別快
Well, Bruce is quite good at memorizing figures, or numbers. In fact he's not a miser; he is as generous as can be.
/ Ok, should we go ahead or ..
/ Well, I do have several words that I have to ask you to explain. The first word is on line five, we have this word to the end, or rather at the end, we have this particular word, "will". Usually this word is a helping verb. "I will...I will do something. ", but "will" can also be used as a noun---at will,
/ Uhh...you cannot throw your litter at will, or you will be fined.
/ litter, garbage,
可是這個(gè)litter還有一個(gè)很怪的用法，a litter of, 狗，貓啊，一窩的，
/ a litter of pigs, a litter of cats,
/ 這里的will卻是用作了動(dòng)詞，加了ed,
/ Right. Well, here "will" is used as a transitive verb,
to will your money,
to will your home,
to will your property to...others, usually your hunband or your wife or your children. If you have things that you want to give people after you die, you will things to them.
/ will, 通常還有一個(gè)名詞的意思，(除了at will外)， 指遺囑，last will, one's last will.
As a verb, "to will something to someone."
Ok, let's go ahead to the next paragraph, which tells us more about Harvard and the other Ivy League Schools.
Harvard is not the only great school in the US, of course. A small industry has grown up around the ranking of the best tertiary schools, and year after year, seven schools dominate most of these top twenty or top fifty lists. Harvard is nearly always at, or close to, the top, joined frequently by Yele, (in Connetikit, 地名) Presiden ( in New Jersey 地名) , Darknet (in New Hansher, 地名), Cornale (in New York state), Columbia (in New York city), the university of (Pensilvaia 地名) and Brond (in Rold Island. 地名). These eight private universities are collectively referred to as the Ivy League Schools.
Well, we started all (of?) talking about Harvard as being, probably the best known, if not, also the best university in the US, but there are seven other schools, whose names we are often familiar with, because we hear about them so often. Certainly Yele and Pensiton are world-famous, probably also Cornao, Columbia, and maybe the university of Pensivania. Two other smaller schools but very high quality, and Darnet and Bron.
These eight private universities, there are not state universities, there private universities together are often called the Ivy League schools.
/ Well, these are schools that are no doubt, you know, top-notch schools, around the United States. Top-notch schools means very very good schools in the US, but there is one school that I would like to specifically mention, Prinston, because for those who are interested in studying in the US, this is a school that you have to very mind, because this school is responsible for all kinds of English tests, including Tofel, GRE, GMD, things like that.
/ Very very good school. We'll find out more about Prinston later. Let me spell the "top notch" for you. "top-notch". 拔尖的，第一流的，好的，
Sometimes we just say "a top school.", but you hear some people say "a top-notch school". Also the same idea, the best or one of the best.
/ ..be referred to as...---> be called
He is referred to as a hero...no, the sentence is wrong. It should be "Peter is referred to as, Peter Lai is referred to as a hero." :D
OK, let's go ahead.
Why the name? Ivy is a vine, that is, a plant which grows up, or along the surface of other plants such as trees or, in the human landscape, along the sides of stone buildings. As these eight universities are old, the youngest among them Cornell was founded in eighteen fifty three, Ivy has had plenty of time to decorate the outsides of the more historic buildings on these campuses. The the "League", however, is more an invention of imagination than the reality. Though there is an association called the Ivy League, it refers to the above schools' participation in an American football athletic conference rather than to any academic alliance. Further, despite the lengthy academic lineage of these schools, the footballing Ivy League was not formally formed until nineteen fifty six. Though high competitive football, and other athletic games, has been hotly contested among the schools for many generations.
This paragraph tries to explain why we call these eight universities "the Ivy League Schools". "Ivy" is a type of plant, and we can see it growing up in the long side stone buildings, old stone buildings on campuses, and from sixteen thirty six, to eighteen fifty three, this a little over two hundred years of history, these old old buildings are now covered with ivy. Now there is an ivy league but refers to these eight universities, which cooperate in a special football athletic conference. They had their own special competition. But that only started in nineteen fifty six. Actually, many of these schools, especially, Harvard and Yele, have had many kinds of competitions which are quite famous and much older than nineteen fifty six. So, ivy league is not the kind of...uhh, association you would think of, being an academic, many professors coming together to discuss things together. No, Ivy League actually refers to a football conference rather than an academic association.
/..Hey, how about the university ...(非常模糊, 可能是一個(gè)什么鳥學(xué)校的名字)
/ Very good school.
/ Yeah,
/ It ..many ..are in the next groups of very good universities.
/ competitive, compete, competent,
During the highly competitive (ancros) examination, he qualified as a student enter Harvard.
competent...I can find that word in my dictionary.
/ That's on every page of your dictionary.
"Competent" means that you can do the work that you are supposed to do, or you have the skills or knowledge to do something, uhh, which you need to do or your company or your school need you to do. competent.
/ But we have a very good and difficult word, "high-caliber,"
/ "high-calibre" means among the best of something or great. British English is probably "calibre". American English often use "caliber".
A high-caliber (technition), somebody who can operate machinery and does it very very well.
/ 相當(dāng)于有能力的技術(shù)人員，叫high-caliber. _________金山詞霸查不到這個(gè)字。
contest, 第一個(gè)章節(jié)重讀的時(shí)候是名詞。第二個(gè)章節(jié)重讀的時(shí)候是動(dòng)詞。
There is a speech contest tomorrow. n,
______lineage,
Direct descent from a particular ancestor; ancestry.
直系后代某祖先的直系后代；后代
Derivation.
衍生
The descendants of a common ancestor considered to be the founder of the line.
同一世系的后代擁有共同祖先的世系的始祖的后代
descent, extraction.
Ok, let's continue with the next paragraph.
Since these institutes of higher learning had such an early start in the history of the US, it is not surprising that they should individually and collectively have exerted a great influence on American society. Their status within national scholarly circles is unparalleled. Admission to these universities is highly demanding. For every student lucky enough to accepted, many objected. As these universities are private, they are relatively expensive. Offsetting these extremely high tuition are many opportunities for scholarships. These scholarships are awarded to meritorious students regardless of their backgrounds.
Well now, we find out more about the inside of these schools. You would expect great schools to have great students, and that is the case. We'll find out more about the influence of these universities on American society in the next couple of paragraphs; but if you are thinking about attending one of these universities, remember that they are highly demanding. That is, it's not very easy to get into or be accepted to them. Also they are quite expensive. However, there're many scholarships available, including some scholarships for foreign students. So as we say, nothing ventured, nothing gained. You can at least try to get into one of these universities, who knows? You might get lucky.
/ Nothing ventured, nothing gained, if there's nothing is ventured, nothing will be gained.
Ok, let's continue.
Additionally, the roster of the faculties of these schools reads like a Who's Who list of important Americans, and quite a few foreigners as well. Their intellectual integrity shows in the number of Nobel and other major prizes awarded, which they have garnered over the years. Some of the country's most famous doctors, statesmen, engineers, scientists, and educationists have studied and taught within these ivy covered walls. No fewer than fourteen US Presidents have earned degrees here, including six at Harvard, six at Yale, and two at Princeton.
Here we find out about some of the influence that these universities have exerted on American society or had a great effort on American society. The (envy) Nobel Prizes and many other prizes awarded to people at a highest level of their professions. Even, US presidents, fourteen of them have studied at these Ivy League Schools and received degrees there.
/ That's really amazing.
_________roster,
A list, especially of names.
花名冊(cè)，登記表
A list of the names of military officers and enlisted personnel enrolled for active duty.
值勤人員表軍官和入伍的現(xiàn)役軍人的名單
_____________faculty,
pl. fac.ul.ties;abbr:fac.
【復(fù)數(shù)】 fac.ul.ties;abbr:fac.
An inherent power or ability.
天賦先天的智能或能力
Any of the powers or capacities possessed by the human mind.
能力，技能人的智力所具有的能力或才能
See: ability
The ability to perform or act.
實(shí)行或行動(dòng)能力
Any of the divisions or comprehensive branches of learning at a college or university:
學(xué)院大學(xué)或?qū)W院里的分支機(jī)構(gòu)或?qū)W術(shù)的廣泛的分支：
the faculty of law.
法學(xué)院
The teachers and instructors within such a division.
全體教師高等院校分支機(jī)構(gòu)的全體教師或講師
A body of teachers.
教師團(tuán)體
All of the members of a learned profession:
學(xué)術(shù)性專業(yè)的全體成員：
the medical faculty.
全體醫(yī)學(xué)界成員
Authorization granted by authority; conferred power.
（授予的）權(quán)威，權(quán)力特權(quán)授予的權(quán)力；授予的權(quán)力
Archaic
【古語】
An occupation; a trade.
職業(yè)；生意
faculty
古法語faculte<拉丁語facultas
n
-ties
才能
She has the faculty to learn languages easily.
她有輕而易舉學(xué)會(huì)語言的才能。
These girls have the faculty to learn languages easily.
這幾個(gè)女孩擅長(zhǎng)學(xué)習(xí)語言。
（大學(xué)的）分科，學(xué)院，系
the Faculty of Arts
文學(xué)院
the Faculty of Science
理學(xué)院
大學(xué)全體教師；中學(xué)全體教師
faculty meeting
教授會(huì)
an excellent mathematics faculty
優(yōu)秀的數(shù)學(xué)教授陣容
n.
才能, 能力, 技能; 資質(zhì); 天賦
(大學(xué)的)院; 系; 全體教員
[美](大學(xué)或?qū)W院的)全體教職員
任何一種職業(yè)的全體從業(yè)人員
(授譽(yù)的)權(quán)力, 權(quán)限
the faculty of memory
記憶力
the imaginative faculty
想象力
the students and faculty
全院師生
the faculty of law [medicine, theology]
法律[醫(yī)學(xué), 神學(xué)]系
F-of Engineering
工學(xué)院
the medical faculty
醫(yī)界同人
Though only a select few can join the ranks as Ivy Leaguers each year, Americans are endowed with a world-class tertiary educational system second to none. Not every graduate from an Ivy League school makes the grade in life, even the first rate education is no guarantee of success. Still, those who do enter and leave the Ivy League universities in the Northeastern US, have a much better than average chance to join a ranks of movers and shakers of not only the US society, but, once back in their home countries, of their native lands as well.
Here of course, we're reminding people that a university degree, that piece of paper, does not guarantee you success in life. You still have to learn how to work with other people, and how to do your own thinking; how to create your own opportunities in life. Well, that's true for everybody. And if you do have a degree from one of these Ivy League schools, you probably have a better than average chance of becoming a successful person. But you still need to work. You still need to think; and you still need to relate well to the other people around you. So, a good education is a good chance in life. But it's not the only requirement you'll need to become a successful person.
/ In other words, it's your own hard work that will make you different from others. Basically, of course a ..only a very good, or having a very good diploma or certificate may give you a brighter opportunity or brighter future, but if you don't work hard, you will get nowhere.
/ You get it.
/ Be endowed with,
/ Ok, it's usually used in the (pass of voice) as it is here, we could say, for example, that "north America is endowed with a lot of good agricultural land." That means the condition or the state or the background of the place already has many things to offer. Or "Harvard has been endowed with a lot of money for scholarships for students."
/ Yeah, here is endowed with a very good voice or singing voice. 他天生就有很棒的歌喉。
endow, v,
en.dowed; en.dow.ing; en.dows;
To provide with property, income, or a source of income.
資助，捐贈(zèng)提供財(cái)產(chǎn)、收入或收入來源
To equip or supply with a talent or quality:
賦予，賜予具有或賦予資質(zhì)、才能：
Nature endowed her with a beautiful singing voice.
大自然賦予她一副美妙的歌喉
To imagine as having a usually favorable trait or quality:
想象，給予想象為帶有討人喜歡的才能或品性：
endowed the family pet with human intelligence.
想象賦予家庭寵物以人的智慧
endow with
賦予；天賦：
endowed with genius
有天才
She is endowed with great writing ability.
她具有杰出的寫作天賦。
賦與, 天賦
捐助; 捐贈(zèng)基金給(學(xué)校、醫(yī)院等)
He is endowed with genius.
他賦有天才。
Our great motherland is favorably endowed climately.
我們祖國的氣候(真是)得天獨(dú)厚。
...
/ 我每天都搬桌子，搖桌子，can I be regarded as, you know, join in the ranks of the movers and shakers?
/ :D, no, this phrase "movers and shakers" refers to influential people, people who influence their society, usually by making progressive changes in that society.
其實(shí)就是非常有影響力的人，呼風(fēng)喚雨的人，
Well, I hope you'll get a chance to study either in your own country or overseas; education is a kind of treasure. And we will be talking about another...
_________________Pan聽寫于2003年6月。
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Lesson 13,
The Ivy League Schools: Excellence in Education.
常春藤盟校－－教育界的佼佼者
The first permanent English settlement in the New World was at Plymouth Bay in what in now the state of Massachusetts in 1620. Merely 16 years later, a group of successful settlers in New Town (renamed Cambridge after their alma mater) started a college. They named it after the Puritan minister who willed half his estate and all his books to the college. This clergyman's name was John Harvard, and his namesake remains the most prestigious among the more than 2000 institutes of higher education in the United States today.
Harvard is not the only great school in the US, of course. A small industry has grown up around the ranking of the best tertiary schools, and year after year, seven schools dominate most of these Top Twenty or Top Fifty lists. Harvard is nearly always at or close to the top, joined frequently by Yale (in Connecticut), Princeton (in New Jersey), Dartmouth (in New Hampshire), Cornell (in New York state), Columbia (in New York city), the University of Pennsylvania, and Brown (in Rhode Island). These eight private universities are collectively referred to as the Ivy League schools.
Why the name? Ivy is a vine; that is, a plant which grows up or along the surface of other plants such as trees, or, in the human landscape, along the sides of stone buildings. As these eight universities are old (the youngest among them, Cornell, was founded in 1853), ivy has had plenty of time to decorate the outsides of the more historic buildings on these campuses. The word league, however, is more an invention of imagination than a reality. Though there is an association called the Ivy League, it refers to the above schools' participation in an American football athletic conference rather than to any academic alliance. Further, despite the lengthy academic lineage of these schools, the footballing Ivy League was not formally formed until 1956, though highly cometitive football and other athletic games have been hotly contested among the schools for many generations.
Since these institutes of higher learning had such an early start in the history of the United States, it is not surprising that they should individually and collectively have exerted a great influence on American society. Their status whithin national scholarly circles is unparalleled. Admission to these universities is highly demanding: many students apply for every one lucky enough to be accepted.As these universities are private, they are relatively expensive. Offsetting the extremely high tuition are many opportunities for scholarships. These scholarships are awarded to meritorious students regardless of their backgrounds.
Additionally, the roster of the faculties of these schools reads like a Who's Who list of important Americans (and quite a few foreigners, as well). Their intellectual integrity shows in the number of Nobel and other major prizes awarded which they have garnered over the years. Some of the country's most famous doctors, statesmen, engineers, scientists, and educationists have studied and taught within these ivy-covered walls. No fewer than 14 US presidents have earned degrees here, including six at Harvard, six at Yale, and two at Princeton.
Though only a select few can join the ranks as Ivy Leaguers each year, Americans are endowed with a world-class tertiary educational system second to none. Not every graduate from an Ivy League school "makes the grade" in life; even a first-rate education is no guarantee of success. Still, those who do enter and leave the Ivy League universities in the northeastern United States have a much better than average chance to join the ranks of the movers and shakers of not only the US cociety, but, once back in their home countries, of their native lands as well.