外刊逐句精读｜《金融时报》：文科专业要被淘汰了吗？｜CATTI一级译员外刊精读｜
2022-09-30 17:09 作者:爱睡懒觉的Nick船长 | 我要投稿
Humanities degrees: ave atque vale
学科相关：
- （the) humanities 人文学科 = （the）arts 人文学科
- course = course of study 专业 eg. nix its English literature course 取消英语文学专业
- programme 也可以指专业
- top-up 追加的钱款 eg. (未达到所需水平而追加的钱款） government top-up funding, subsidy top up sth 补足，充值
- high needs schools/ students 教学条件低下的学校和极度需要帮助的学生
- STEM courses 理科
- Vocational 职业技术的 vocational education/ school 职业培训/职业学校
- graduate job = a job that require someone to hold a degree to start their career in that profession or industry.
- enter professtional employment or further study
Collocation and Vocabulary
- as/ more often than not 通常
- get a bigger bang for your buck 从自己的付出中得到汇报
- fall out of favour 失宠 eg. Humanities degrees are falling out of favour in the Uk.
- spark = trigger 引发，出发
- backlash n 强烈抵制 backlsh against sth from sb. 有谁发起的抵制 eg. sparking an immediate backlash from writers and others in the arets world.
- ill-advised adj 不明智的，eg. It also seems financially ill advised.
- flat 如果形容费用的话是固定的意思 eg. Fess for most British undergraduates are a flat $9250.
- break-even 收支相抵 eg. We're hoping that we'll at least break even, and perhps make a small profit. 我们希望至少收支平衡，或许还能略有盈利。
- state of the art 最先进的 eg. state of the art computing power.
- discrepancy = difference 差异
- bridge vt 弥合 bridge the gap or bridge the shortfall 弥补缺口
- pronounced adj 显著的
- treacherous adj 变化无常的
- be at pains to do sth 小心翼翼地做某事
- Judged returns on investment 根据投资回报判断
- attainment n 达到，成就 (可数） eg. a low level of educational attainment 教育程度低
- end up doing sth 最终处于
Nice sentence：
- More often than not, arts graduates get less bang for their buck than their more scientifically minded peers. 人文学科学生得到回报不如理工科高。The average physics graduate earns almost a quarter more than one brandishing 激动挥舞着an English degree.
- Degrees in subjects such as politics are cheaper to provide than those involving fully furnished labs or state of the art computing power.
- Government top-up funding reflects the discrepancy.
- Most humanities, alongside law, break even on the average student. In the treacherous world of higher education, that counts as a good outcome. 在这个变化无常的高等教育学科中，文科专业收支相抵也算是一个不错的结果了。
- While the university is at pains to point out that its move is not an attack on humanities, market forces are clearly afoot（正在进行）.
- The initial cost to the state is smaller but humanities graduates who end up in low paid jobs contribute less in tax over the longer term.
- Readers should hold on to those arts degrees. They could one day become a collector's item. 读者们要好好抓住文科专业的学历，很有可能有一天他们就变成了没有价值的东西了。
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