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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.现在，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崇高的的地位。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大方。美国人民对正规教育所能起到的作用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、它具有惊人创造力的经济、它的国家安全以及它

4、健全的民主制度，这都极大地依赖于其高等教育机构的质量。faith 信念、信仰 belief 相信、信仰 confidence 信任、信心 concept 观念、概念conviction 确信、说服 certitude 确信 assurance 确信、担保 trust 信任、相信 vitality 活力、生命力 energy 活力、精力 vigorousness 蓬勃、朝气 activity 活跃、活力diverse 多种多样的、不同的 various 多种多样的、多方面的 numerous 很多的、许多的 assorted 各式各样的staggeringly 难以置信地、令人吃惊地 start

5、lingly 惊人地 amazingly 令人惊奇地 astonishingly 令人惊讶地security 安全、保护 safety 安全、安全性 defence 防御、防卫 safeguard 保护、保卫robustness 健全、稳固 sound adj 健全的、合理的 sturdy adj 健全的、坚固的 （侧重身体方面） steadiness 稳定、稳固institutions 机构 organization 组织;机构;团体 outfit 集体、组织、一套服装 system 体系、系统、制度owe to 归功于 attribute to 把 . 归于 give the credit to 归功于 depend on 依赖、决定于 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