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1、 Today the academy holds a highly privileged place in American society because of a 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

2、lavishly as does the Unites States. Americans have an almost childlike faith in what formal education can do for them.” That faith is base 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

3、 robustness of its democratic institutions owe much to the quality of institutions of higher education.現(xiàn)在，由于長期以來美國人對(duì)教育價(jià)值的共識(shí)，大學(xué)在美國社會(huì)中占有崇高的的地位。一位前任校長，哈羅德多茲，1933年在就職演說中曾提到，“沒有哪個(gè)國家像美國這樣，不論對(duì)公立教育還是私立教育的投入都是如此地大方。美國人民對(duì)正規(guī)教育所能起到的作用有一種近乎天真的信念?！边@一信念是在這樣一個(gè)深信不疑的基礎(chǔ)上確立的，即美國的活力：它富有創(chuàng)造性和多樣化的文化生活、它具有驚人創(chuàng)造力的經(jīng)濟(jì)、它的國家安全以及它

4、健全的民主制度，這都極大地依賴于其高等教育機(jī)構(gòu)的質(zhì)量。faith 信念、信仰 belief 相信、信仰 confidence 信任、信心 concept 觀念、概念conviction 確信、說服 certitude 確信 assurance 確信、擔(dān)保 trust 信任、相信 vitality 活力、生命力 energy 活力、精力 vigorousness 蓬勃、朝氣 activity 活躍、活力diverse 多種多樣的、不同的 various 多種多樣的、多方面的 numerous 很多的、許多的 assorted 各式各樣的staggeringly 難以置信地、令人吃驚地 start

5、lingly 驚人地 amazingly 令人驚奇地 astonishingly 令人驚訝地security 安全、保護(hù) safety 安全、安全性 defence 防御、防衛(wèi) safeguard 保護(hù)、保衛(wèi)robustness 健全、穩(wěn)固 sound adj 健全的、合理的 sturdy adj 健全的、堅(jiān)固的 （側(cè)重身體方面） steadiness 穩(wěn)定、穩(wěn)固institutions 機(jī)構(gòu) organization 組織;機(jī)構(gòu);團(tuán)體 outfit 集體、組織、一套服裝 system 體系、系統(tǒng)、制度owe to 歸功于 attribute to 把 . 歸于 give the credit to 歸功于 depend on 依賴、決定于 That belief is base on a certitude that the energy of the United States, its creative and various cultural life, its startlingly inventive economy, its national safety and the sound sys