2. 译文The role of academy
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翻译二级笔译实务分类模拟题30汉译英1. 杨景致同志原在石家庄帮助建立一座新工厂,任务完成之后,他就去上海休假,看望老朋友,一个礼拜以前才回北京来。
正确答案:Comrade Yang Jingzh(江南博哥)i came back to Beijing a week ago from Shanghai where he had spent his vacation visiting his friends after the completion of the job he had been assigned to help build anew factory in Shijiazhuang city.2. 太平宫位于崂山东部的上苑山北麓,初名太平兴国院,是赵匡胤为华盖真人刘若拙建的道场之一。
正确答案:Taipinggong Temple is located at the northern foot of Mount Shang yuan, east of Laoshan Mountain. Its original name was "The Garden of Taiping Xingguo", one of the Taoist temples built for Liu Ruozhuo (his religious name was Huagai) by Zhao Kuangyin, founder of the Song Dynasty (960—1127).3. 互联网对企业内部也是一种革命。
正确答案:The Net has revolutionized the way companies are run.4. 新经济的另一个改变就是,很多跟互联网或高科技有关的新公司像雨后春笋般兴起。
好像只要成立一家公司,高获利率的前景就指日可待。
正确答案:The New Economy has also led to the mushrooming of IT or Internet-related firms as though the mere setting up of such a company is a guarantee of high profits.5. 只有注重技术、企业精神和创新三点,才会在新经济时代成为赢家。
Unit10 The Role of Education

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Listen to a talk on education and educational system, and answer the following questions. 1) What’s the purpose of education? 2) What’s thought to be fashionable in many modern countries? 3) Why do some people refuse to do what they think of as low jobs? 4) Why is the work of a completely uneducated farmer far more important than that of a professor? 5) What kind of education is valuable to the society?
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Unit 10 The Role of Education
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In the mid 1980s, China’s college enrollment rate stood at about 3% of the population, lower than that of many other developing countries. In the early 1990s, the number rose to 5%. In 1999, universities enrolled 1.59 million students, which was a 41.2 percent rise from the previous year. Since then, the numbers have just kept climbing. In 2002, the college enrollment rate reached 15% percent. It rose to 19% in 2005. Some people think the expansion policy is necessary to improve the quality of the nation’s education while others believe that the expansion is responsible for a decline in the quality of teaching as well as the intense competition in the job market. What is your opinion on this issue? Use examples, facts or figures to support your ideas. (P276)
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Unit 2The humanities: Out of date?1When the going gets tough, the tough take accounting.When the job market worsens, many students calculate they can't major in English or history.They have to study something that boosts their prospects of landing a job.2The data show that as students have increasingly shouldered the ever-rising cost of tuition, they have defected from the study of the humanities and toward applied science and "hard" skills that they bet will lead to employment.In other words, a college education is more and more seen as a means for economic betterment rather than a means for human betterment.This is a trend that is likely to persist and even accelerate.3Over the next few years, as labor markets struggle, the humanities will probably continue their long slide in succession.There already has been a nearly 50 percent decline in the portion of liberal arts majors over the past generation, and it is logical to think that the trend is bound to continue or even accelerate.Once the dominant pillars of university life, the humanities now play little roles when students take their college tours.These days, labs are more vivid and compelling than libraries.4Here, please allow me to stand up for and promote the true value that the humanities add to people's lives.Since ancient times, people have speculated about the mystery of those inner forces that drive some people to greatness and others to self-destruction. This inner drive has been called many things over the centuries.The famous psychologist,Sigmund Freud, called it the "unconscious mind" or, more familiarly, "instinct".5From the beginning of time, this inner aspect of our being, this drive that can be constructive or destructive, has captured our imagination.The stories of this amazing struggle have formed the basis of cultures the world over.Historians,architects, authors, philosophers and artists have captured the words, images and meanings of this inner struggle in the form of story, music, myth, painting, architecture, sculpture,landscape and traditions.These men and women developed artistic "languages" that help us understand these aspirations and also educate generations.This fertile body of work from ancient times, the very foundation of civilization, forms the basis of study of the humanities.6Studying the humanities improves our ability to read and write.No matter what we do in life, we will have a huge advantage if we can read complex ideas and understand their meaning.We will have a bright career if we are the person in the office who can write a clear and elegant analysis of those ideas!7Studying the humanities makes us familiar with the language of emotion and the creative process.In an information economy, many people have the ability to produce a useful product such as a new MP3 player.Yet, very few people have the ability to create a spectacular brand: the iPod.Most importantly, studying thehumanities invests us with great insight and self-awareness,there by releasing our creative energy and talent in a positive and constructive manner.8Perhaps the best argument in favor of the humanities is the scope of possibilities that are widely open to us.Did you know that James Cameron, world-famous director of the movie,Titanic, graduated with a degree in the humanities?So did Sally Ride, the first woman in space.So did actors Bruce Lee,Gwyneth Paltrow,Renee Zellweger and Matt Damon.Dr.Harold Varmus, who won a Nobel Prize for Medicine, studied the humanities.Even Michael Eisner, Chairman of the Disney Company, majored in the humanities. Famous people who studied the humanities make a long list indeed.It's easy to see that the humanities can prepare us for many different careers and jobs we can undertake, whether medicine, business, science or entertainment.If we study only mathematics, it's likely we will be a candidate only for jobs as a mathematician.If we include studying the humanities, we can make breakthroughs on many barriers and are limited only by our effort and imagination.9Of course, nowadays, if we study the humanities alone, we are liable to miss many opportunities.Each one of us needs to become as technically and professionally skilled as possible to help meet the needs of modern life.In fact, increasingly a pairing of technical knowledge and inner insight is seen as the ideal in the establishment of a career.If I were the Dean of Admissions at a medical school and two people applied to our school, both having the required basic scientific courses, one a philosophy major and the other solely a pre-med student, the philosophy applicant would be chosen.10In summary, the humanities help to create well-rounded human beings with insight and understanding of the passions, hopes and dreams common to all humanity.The humanities, the ancient timeless reservoir of knowledge, teach us to see things differently and broaden our horizons.They are as useful and relevant in our modern age as they have always been.Doesn't it make sense to spend some time in the company of the humanities, our outstanding and remarkable treasure of knowledge?Who knows how famous YOU might become!Translation人文学科:过时了吗?1 当形势变得困难时,强者会去选学会计。
unit 10 The Role of the Academy in Times of Crisis

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2020译林版高中英语必修二课文翻译

UNIT 1 Lights, camera, action!A film is or should be more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. ——Stanley Kubrick电影是,或者说应该是更像音乐而非小说。
它应该是一个情绪和情感的逐步发展过程。
——斯坦利·库布里克Reading (P 2-3)Behind the scenes 幕后Hello, everyone! Let me start by asking you a question: what’s the first thing you notice about a film? The acting? The music? Maybe the amazing sets? Whatever your answer is, there’s always a lot more to it than first meets the eye. Actually, the film you see on the screen is the product of a huge amount of hard work, most of which takes place behind the scenes. Today, I’ll give you a brief introduction to some aspects of film-making you might not be familiar with.大家好!让我来先问你们一个问题作为开场:对于一部电影你首先会注意什么?表演?配乐?也许是令人惊叹的布景?无论你们的答案是什么,事情总要比你们认为的要复杂得多。
事实上,你在银幕上看到的电影是大量艰苦工作的产物,其中大部分工作发生在幕后。
unit 7 the Role of the Academy in Times of Crisis

The opportunity to receive higher education is a privilege that brings with it responsibilities. The President of Princeton University talks about this in her inaugural speech.Unit 7 THE ROLE OF THE ACADEMY IN TIMES OF CRISIS1 Today the academy holds a highly privileged place in American society because of a about the long-standing national consensus about the value of education. One of my predecessors, President Harold Dodds, said in his inaugural address in 1933 that "No country spends money for education, public or private, so lavishly as does the United States. Americans have an almost childlike faith in what formal education can do for them." That faith is based on a conviction that the vitality of the United States, its creative and diverse cultural life, its is national security and the robustness of its democratic institutions owe much to the quality of institutions of higher education.2 Our society’s confidence in its institutions of higher education is expressed through the generous investments of the federal and state government in basic and applied research investment that wisely couple support for research with support for graduate education. It is also expresses through federal and state investments that subsidize the cost of higher education for those who cannot afford to pay, investments by private foundations and charities who see colleges and universities as the best routes for achieving their strategic goals, and investments by individuals and by the private sector, who see universities as the incubators of future health and prosperity. In return for this broad support, society rightfully expects certain things from us. It expects the generation of new ideas and the discovery of new knowledge, the exploration of complex issues in an open and collegial manner and the preparation of the next generation of citizens and leaders. In times of trouble, it is especially important that we live up to these expectations.3 The medieval image of the university as an ivory tower, with scholars turned inward in solitary contemplation, immunized from the cares of the day, is an image that has been superseded by the modern university constructed not of ivory, but of a highly porous material, one that allows free diffusion in both directions. The academy is of the world, not apart from it. Its ideas, crafted over many generations, are meant to suffuse the national consciousness. Its scholars and teachers are meant to move in and out of the academy in pursuit of opportunities to use their expertise in public service, in pursuit of creative work that will give us illumination and insight and in pursuit of ways to turn laboratory discoveries into useful things. Our students engage the world with a strong sense of civic responsibility, and when they graduate they become alumni who do the same. This is as it should be.4 The search for new ideas and knowledge is not and cannot be motivated by utilitarian concerns. Rather it depends on the ability to think in new and creative ways. When the Nobel laureate John Nash developed the mathematical concepts underlying non- cooperative game theory8 as a graduate student at Princeton, he could not foresee that those concepts would be used today to analyze election strategies and the causes of war and to make predictions about how people will act. When Professor of Molecular Biology Eric Wieschaus' set out as a young scientist to identify genes that pattern the body plan of the fruit fly embryo, he could not know that he would identify genes that play a central role in the development of human cancer. We have learned that we cannot predict with any accuracy how discoveries and scholarship will influence future generations. We also have learned that it is unwise to search only in predictable places, for new knowledge often depends upon preparing fertile ground in obscure places where serendipity and good luck, as well as deep intelligence, can sprout. Freedom of inquiry, which is one of our most cherished organizing principles, is not just a moral imperative, it is a practical necessity.5 Just as we have an obligation to search widely for knowledge, so we also have an obligation to ensure that the scholarly work of the academy is widely disseminated, so that others can correct it when necessary, or build on it, or use it to make better decisions, develop better products or construct better plans. In the days ahead, I hope that our country's decision-makers will draw on the knowledge that resides on our campuses, on historians who can inform the present through deep understanding of the past, philosophers who can provide frameworks for working through issues of right and wrong, economists whose insights can help to get the economy back on track, engineers who know how to build safer buildings, scientists who can analyze our vulnerabilities to future attack and develop strategies for reducing those vulnerabilities, and scholars in many fields who can help us understand the motivations of those who would commit acts of terrorism here and throughout the world.6 Let me now turn to the third obligation that we have to society: the education of the next generation of citizens and leaders. Princeton's view of what constitutes a liberal arts education was expressed well by Woodrow Wilson, our 13th President, whose eloquent words I read at Opening Exercises:"What we should seek to impart in our colleges, is not so much learning itself as the spirit of learning. It consists in the power to distinguish good reasoning from bad, in the power to digest and interpret evidence, in the habit of catholic observation and a preference for the non-partisan point of view, in an addiction to clear and logical processes of thought and yet an instinctive desire to interpret rather than to stick to the letter of reasoning, in a taste for knowledge and a deep respect for the integrity of the human mind."7 Wilson, and the presidents who followed him, rejected the narrow idea of a liberal arts education as preparation for a profession. While understanding the importance of professional education, they made it clear that at Princeton we should first and foremost cultivate the qualities of thought and discernment in our students in the belief that this will be most conducive to the health of our society. Thus we distinguish between the acquisition of information, something that is essential for professional training, and the development of habits of mind that can be applied in any profession. Consequently we celebrate when the classics scholar goes to medical school, the physicist becomes a member of Congress, or the historian teaches primary school. If we do our job well as educators, each of our students will take from a Princeton education a respect and appreciation for ideas and values, intellectual openness and rigor, practice in civil discourse and a sense of civic responsibility. During these troubled times, our students and our alumni will be called upon to exercise these qualities in their professions, their communities and their daily lives. By so doing, and through their leadership, their vision and their courage, they will help to fulfill Princeton's obligation to society and bring true meaning to our motto, "Princeton in the nation's service and in the service of all nations."Critical thinking1. What do you think is the purpose of education?2. Do you think the idea of a liberal arts education as preparation for a profession is a narrow one? Why? Why not?3. The search for new ideas and knowledge is not and cannot be motivated by utilitarian concern. Do you agree?普林斯顿大学校长在其任职演说中提到:与接受高等教育这项权利相伴的是各种义务。
Unit Ten The Role of Education
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That faith is based on a conviction that the vitality of
the United States, its creative and diverse cultural life, its staggeringly inventive economy, its national security and the robustness of its democratic institutions owe much to the quality of institutions of higher education. 这一信念是在这样一个深信不疑的基础上确立的,即 美国的活力、它富于创造性和多样化的文化生活、它 具有惊人独创力的经济、它的国家安全以及它健全的 民主制度---极大地依赖于其高等教育机构的质量。
This passage is the inaugural speech
delivered by the president of Princeton University about the role of higher education in times of crisis. The speech focuses on the obligations of modern universities: to search for new ideas and knowledge, to disseminate the knowledge to educate the next generation of citizens and leaders.
Unit Ten
The Role of Education
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(完整word版)unit 7 the Role of the Academy in Times of Crisis
The opportunity to receive higher education is a privilege that brings with it responsibilities. The President of Princeton University talks about this in her inaugural speech.Unit 7 THE ROLE OF THE ACADEMY IN TIMES OF CRISIS1 Today the academy holds a highly privileged place in American society because of a about the long-standing national consensus about the value of education. One of my predecessors, President Harold Dodds, said in his inaugural address in 1933 that "No country spends money for education, public or private, so lavishly as does the United States. Americans have an almost childlike faith in what formal education can do for them." That faith is based on a conviction that the vitality of the United States, its creative and diverse cultural life, its is national security and the robustness of its democratic institutions owe much to the quality of institutions of higher education.2 Our society’s confidence in its institutions of higher education is expressed through the generous investments of the federal and state government in basic and applied research investment that wisely couple support for research with support for graduate education. It is also expresses through federal and state investments that subsidize the cost of higher education for those who cannot afford to pay, investments by private foundations and charities who see colleges and universities as the best routes for achieving their strategic goals, and investments by individuals and by the private sector, who see universities as the incubators of future health and prosperity. In return for this broad support, society rightfully expects certain things from us. It expects the generation of new ideas and the discovery of new knowledge, the exploration of complex issues in an open and collegial manner and the preparation of the next generation of citizens and leaders. In times of trouble, it is especially important that we live up to these expectations.3 The medieval image of the university as an ivory tower, with scholars turned inward in solitary contemplation, immunized from the cares of the day, is an image that has been superseded by the modern university constructed not of ivory, but of a highly porous material, one that allows free diffusion in both directions. The academy is of the world, not apart from it. Its ideas, crafted over many generations, are meant to suffuse the national consciousness. Its scholars and teachers are meant to move in and out of the academy in pursuit of opportunities to use their expertise in public service, in pursuit of creative work that will give us illumination and insight and in pursuit of ways to turn laboratory discoveries into useful things. Our students engage the world with a strong sense of civic responsibility, and when they graduate they become alumni who do the same. This is as it should be.4 The search for new ideas and knowledge is not and cannot be motivated by utilitarian concerns. Rather it depends on the ability to think in new and creative ways. When the Nobel laureate John Nash developed the mathematical concepts underlying non- cooperative game theory8 as a graduate student at Princeton, he could not foresee that those concepts would be used today to analyze election strategies and the causes of war and to make predictions about how people will act. When Professor of Molecular Biology Eric Wieschaus' set out as a young scientist to identify genes that pattern the body plan of the fruit fly embryo, he could not know that he would identify genes that play a central role in the development of human cancer. We have learned that we cannot predict with any accuracy how discoveries and scholarship will influence future generations. We also have learned that it is unwise to search only in predictable places, for new knowledge often depends upon preparing fertile ground in obscure places where serendipity and good luck, as well as deep intelligence, can sprout. Freedom of inquiry, which is one of our most cherished organizing principles, is not just a moral imperative, it is a practical necessity.5 Just as we have an obligation to search widely for knowledge, so we also have an obligation to ensure that the scholarly work of the academy is widely disseminated, so that others can correct it when necessary, or build on it, or use it to make better decisions, develop better products or construct better plans. In the days ahead, I hope that our country's decision-makers will draw on the knowledge that resides on our campuses, on historians who can inform the present through deep understanding of the past, philosophers who can provide frameworks for working through issues of right and wrong, economists whose insights can help to get the economy back on track, engineers who know how to build safer buildings, scientists who can analyze our vulnerabilities to future attack and develop strategies for reducing those vulnerabilities, and scholars in many fields who can help us understand the motivations of those who would commit acts of terrorism here and throughout the world.6 Let me now turn to the third obligation that we have to society: the education of the next generation of citizens and leaders. Princeton's view of what constitutes a liberal arts education was expressed well by Woodrow Wilson, our 13th President, whose eloquent words I read at Opening Exercises:"What we should seek to impart in our colleges, is not so much learning itself as the spirit of learning. It consists in the power to distinguish good reasoning from bad, in the power to digest and interpret evidence, in the habit of catholic observation and a preference for the non-partisan point of view, in an addiction to clear and logical processes of thought and yet an instinctive desire to interpret rather than to stick to the letter of reasoning, in a taste for knowledge and a deep respect for the integrity of the human mind."7 Wilson, and the presidents who followed him, rejected the narrow idea of a liberal arts education as preparation for a profession. While understanding the importance of professional education, they made it clear that at Princeton we should first and foremost cultivate the qualities of thought and discernment in our students in the belief that this will be most conducive to the health of our society. Thus we distinguish between the acquisition of information, something that is essential for professional training, and the development of habits of mind that can be applied in any profession. Consequently we celebrate when the classics scholar goes to medical school, the physicist becomes a member of Congress, or the historian teaches primary school. If we do our job well as educators, each of our students will take from a Princeton education a respect and appreciation for ideas and values, intellectual openness and rigor, practice in civil discourse and a sense of civic responsibility. During these troubled times, our students and our alumni will be called upon to exercise these qualities in their professions, their communities and their daily lives. By so doing, and through their leadership, their vision and their courage, they will help to fulfill Princeton's obligation to society and bring true meaning to our motto, "Princeton in the nation's service and in the service of all nations."Critical thinking1. What do you think is the purpose of education?2. Do you think the idea of a liberal arts education as preparation for a profession is a narrow one? Why? Why not?3. The search for new ideas and knowledge is not and cannot be motivated by utilitarian concern. Do you agree?普林斯顿大学校长在其任职演说中提到:与接受高等教育这项权利相伴的是各种义务。
新视野大学英语2(第三版)课后翻译中译英
新视野大学英语2(第三版)课后翻译中译英Unit 1中国书法是一门独特的艺术,是世界上独一无二的艺术瑰宝。
中国书法艺术的形成、发展与汉文字的产生与演进存在着密不可分的关系。
汉字在漫长的演变发展过程中,一方面起着交流思想、继承文化的重要作用,另一方面它本身又形成了一种独特的艺术。
书法能够通过作品把书法家个人的生活感受、学识、修养、个性等折射出来,所以,通常有"字如其人"的说法。
中国书法不仅是中华民族的文化瑰宝,而且在世界文化艺术宝库中独放异彩。
Chinese calligraphy is a unique art and the unique art treasure in the world. The formation and development of the Chinese calligraphy is cl osely related to the emergence and evolution of Chinese characters. In this long evolutionary process, Chinese characters have not only played an important role in exchanging ideas and transmitting culture but also developed into a unique art form. Calligraphic works well reflect calligraphers' personal feelings, knowledge, self-cultivation, personality, and so forth, thus there is an expression that "seeing the calligrapher's handwriting is like seeing the person". As one of the treasures of Chinese culture, Chinese calligraphy shines splendidly in the world's treasure house of culture and art.Unit 2近年来,随着互联网技术的发展,我国的数字化教育资源建设取得了巨大的成就。
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普林斯顿大学校长在其任职演说中提到:与接受高等教育这项权利相伴的是各种义务。
危机时代,大学该扮演的角色
雪莉·M.泰夫曼1今天,由于长期以来美国人对教育价值的共识,大学在美国社会中占有得天独厚的地位。
一位前任校长哈罗德·多兹1933年在就职演说中曾提到,“没有哪个国家像美国这样,不论对公立教育还是私立教育的投入都是如此地慷慨大方。
美国人民对正规教育所能起到的作用抱有一种近乎天真的信念。
”这一信念是在这样一个深信不疑的基础上确立的,即美国的活力、它富有创造性和多样化的文化生活、它具有惊人独创力的经济、它的国家安全以及它健全的民主制度——极大地依赖于其高等教育机构的质量。
2我国社会对高等教育机构的信心通过以下几点表现出来:联邦政府和州政府对基础研究和应用研究给予大量投资,这些投资明智地将对研究的支持与对研究生教育的支持结合起来;联邦政府和州政府对无力负担高等教育学费的学生给予资助;一些私人基金会和慈善机构给予投资,他们认为高等院校是达成其战略目标的最佳途径;一些个人和私人部门给予投资,他们认为高等院校是未来健康发展和富裕繁荣的孵化器。
社会当然期望我们能有所作为以回报这种广泛的支持。
社会期望我们产生新思想,开发新知识,以一种开放和共同协作的方式探索复杂的问题,培养未来一代公民和领导者。
当处于困境的时候,我们不辜负这些期望就尤为重要。
3中世纪大学的形象是一座象牙塔,学者们远离社会进行孤独的沉思,不关心窗外之事——这一形象已被现代大学所取代——现代大学不是象牙构筑的,而是高度开放的机构,允许内外自由交流。
高校是属于社会的,而不是游离于社会之外的。
高校的理想,经由多少代人的铸造,旨在渗入国民意识之中。
学者和教师必定要周旋于学院内外以寻觅运用他们的才能为公众服务的机会,寻觅能给我们带来启发和见识的创造性工作,寻觅把实验室的研究发现转化为实际应用的途径。
我们的学生在从事社会活动时怀有一种强烈的公民责任意识,并且当他们毕业若干年后成为老校友时仍然会这样做。
这些都是理所当然的。
4探索新思想和新知识不是依靠也不应该依靠功利主义动机,而是依靠以新颖的和创造性的方式进行思考的能力。
当诺贝尔奖获得者约翰·纳什在普林斯顿大学读研究生时推动了构成“非合作博弈论”基础的数学概念的发展时,他可能根本不会想到这些概念会在今天被用于分析选举策略、战争起因及预测人的行为表现等方面。
当还是一名年轻科学家的分子生物学教授埃里克·维绍斯着手识别决定果蝇胚胎身体结构模式的基因时,他可能不知道他会识别出在推动对人类癌症的研究中起到关键性作用的基因。
由此得知,我们无法准确地预测科学发现及学术成就将如何影响未来一代又一代的人们。
同时,我们也得知,只在可预知的领域来挖掘知识是不明智的,因为新知识往往依赖于在未知领域准备好肥沃的土壤,在那些领域,好运气同深奥的智慧一样能开花结果。
我们最珍视的组织原则之一——探索的自由,不仅仅从道德上说是必需的,而且它也是一个实际需要。
5就像我们有义务广泛寻求新知识一样,我们也有义务确保我们的学术研究能够被广泛地传播。
只有这样,别人才能对其做出必要的修正,或将其发扬光大,或依据它来作出更好的决定,开发出更好的产品,或构建出更好的规划。
在日后的岁月中,我希望我们国家的决策者根据留存于大学的知识来做决定,咨询能通过对过去的深刻理解而洞悉现在的历史学家们;咨询能提供明辨是非原则的哲学家们;咨询能以其洞察力使经济回归正轨的经济学家们;咨询知道如何建造更安全建筑的工程师们;咨询能分析我们容易招致未来袭击的软肋并能制订出弥补这些弱点的战略的科学家们;以及咨询能帮助我们弄清恐怖分子在我国及世界各地实施恐怖行动的动机的多个领域的学者们。
6现在,请允许我来阐述一下我们应对社会所尽的第三项义务:培育下一代的公民与
领导者。
普林斯顿大学所提倡的对大学文科教育的见解,我校第13任校长伍德罗。
威尔逊曾作过精辟的表述,我在开学典礼上曾诵读过他的雄辩的语句:“在大学里我们应当努力传授的,与其说是知识本身还不如说是做学问的精神。
它包括:辨别正确推理与错误推理的能力,消化与阐释论据的能力,广泛观察的习惯,对于持客观见解的偏好,执着于清晰有条理的思维过程,本能地热衷于阐释内涵而不拘泥于推论的字面意思,对知识的鉴赏力,对人类健全心智的无限尊重。
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7威尔逊及其继任者们拒绝这一狭隘的观念:即大学文科教育只限于为某种职业做准备。
他们在了解职业教育重要性的同时,更清楚在普林斯顿首先应该培养学生的思考能力和洞察力,坚信这才最有益于社会健全发展。
因此我们对以下两方面做了区分:对职业素质的培养有重要作用的信息获取和能够应用于任何职业的思维习惯的发展。
所以,当古典文学家走进医学院、物理学家成为国会议员或历史学家执教小学的时候,我们便感到庆幸。
如果我们作为教育家做好我们的工作,我们的每一个学生将从普林斯顿的教育中学会尊重和欣赏各种理念与价值、思维的开放与严谨、社交实践与公民责任感。
在这困难重重的年代,我们将号召我们的学生和校友们在他们的职业中、在他们的团体和日常生活中实践这些品质。
通过这样做,通过他们的领导力、洞察力和勇气,他们将帮助履行普林斯顿对社会的义务和实践我们的座右铭:“普林斯顿——为国家服务,为世界服务!”。