英语新闻视频：杨澜英文对话哈佛大学校长－德鲁·福斯特

福斯特DREW FAUST-- 1968年毕业于宾夕法尼亚州布尔茅尔女子学院，1971年和1975年分别获得宾夕法尼亚大学硕士和博士学位，之后在宾大工作了25年，期间被授予美国艺术与科学院院士。2001年1月福斯特接手拉德克利夫学院任院长，该学院于1999年并入哈佛。2007年10月福斯特就任哈佛大学校长。

English Version：（英文版）

   1. People say that you have a good combination of capabilities¹ and characters in terms of you can be both collaborative and decisive at the same time, what has empowered you in terms of you know heading a firm line but also at the same time how to negotiate and work with other people.

    I like to listen, I find people extremely interesting and especially in the place my Harvard, they know so much. If you listen to them, you learn a lot. So I like to try to figure out what I can learn from them, but also where they are. If there is a problem that I need to address, I'd like to hear they talk about that problem, so I can see what is the difference between how I am thinking this problem and how they are thinking about the problem, and what is the way to bridge that divide so this thing is a good contacts for setting up the possibility of the connection, and comprising, and collaboration². So I think my collaborationist³ comes partly from curiosity, and partly from a strategy of the problem solving. But I emphasis, and I have strong opinions on many things. There are some things I do not have strong opinions not at all. We went out for dinner the other night here. You don't know what to order, just order for me, I don't care. So I don't need to control everything. But there certain principles I have that I don't want comprise on. So once I listened, once I figured out where everyone is, I am willing to say here's we wanna to go.

    2. Dealing⁴ with government, how about raising funds, part of the most difficult job and challenge for the president of leading university to raise fund.

    I like fund thing, I enjoyed it. I enjoyed talk to the people who are interested in institution, and I enjoyed the challenge of having to explain myself. I think that fund thing is a very good discipline, because you have to be able to communicate. What matters, why is matters, what you are doing it is valuable. And That is very good things for a leader to have to do, so I found that I learned a lot from having to express myself in that way, and I learned a lot from those who care about the university when they say to me how they see it from their eyes from outside the university. So funding is something that could be fun.

  3. Against women.

   Well, people could say those things, or wouldn't say those things. What is the most important , what kind of job I did, whether I am a good president or not, whether I made the right decisions, whether I made the strong decisions? I'd really better do well. Myself I felt that women can do anything. I am not the female president of Harvard; I am the president of Harvard.

  4. Part of your career has been about talking with young people, how are the different /what kind of things they expect from their college education as compare your day's college?

   I think many students come to college today very pressure to succeed and they often have very narrow understanding what success might be there. They are quite focus on careers, on meeting to choose the career, and loaf rapidly to achieved that. I found when I was in college many years ago, we someone isolate⁵ from those pressure what have to be after college, we found we have more freedom to explore, and so I try to encourage students to take that freedom at Harvard, and to make sure they don't just march a long pre directed pad. As I told the elementary freshmen⁶ they take some risks, take a course unlike anything they ever expect to take, take the advantage of the marvelous verity⁷ of course this is Harvard the museums, the collections, the libraries, the opportunities to work and study internationally, and stressed themselves.

 5.What kind of students would be your favorite or what kind of the students do you like the most?

   The students I like the most either ones that are the curious, that follow their curiosity where ever lead them, that surprise me with the ways they come to ask questions and try to answer questions, with students that love what they are doing. That to me is the most delight part is being involved in the university.
 

1 capabilities   

n.能力( capability的名词复数 )；可能；容量；[复数]潜在能力

参考例句：

• He was somewhat pompous and had a high opinion of his own capabilities. 他有点自大，自视甚高。 来自辞典例句
• Some programmers use tabs to break complex product capabilities into smaller chunks. 一些程序员认为，标签可以将复杂的功能分为每个窗格一组简单的功能。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓

2 collaboration   

n.合作，协作；勾结

参考例句：

• The two companies are working in close collaboration each other.这两家公司密切合作。
• He was shot for collaboration with the enemy.他因通敌而被枪毙了。

3 collaborationist   

通敌卖国者

参考例句：

• Quinn headed the collaborationist government throughout the war. 奎因在战争期间领导汉奸政府。 来自柯林斯例句

4 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。

5 isolate   

vt.使孤立，隔离

参考例句：

• Do not isolate yourself from others.不要把自己孤立起来。
• We should never isolate ourselves from the masses.我们永远不能脱离群众。

6 freshmen   

n.（中学或大学的）一年级学生( freshman的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• We are freshmen and they are sophomores. 我们是一年级学生，他们是二年级学生。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• University freshmen get lots of razzing, but they like the initiation. 大一新生受各种嘲弄，但是他们对这种入门经验甘之如饴。 来自辞典例句

7 verity   

n.真实性

参考例句：

• Human's mission lies in exploring verity bravely.人的天职在勇于探索真理。
• How to guarantee the verity of the financial information disclosed by listed companies? 如何保证上市公司财务信息披露真实性?