美国大学的事(在线收听

  A:Jake, I’d like to tell you something about the universities in the States today.

  Jake,我今天给你讲讲美国大学的事儿

  B:Wonderful. I would like to know how university works before I go abroad.

  好啊。我出国之前也想了解一下大学是怎样运作的。

  A:Ok, first, you should know 3 very important people on campus. They’re chancellor, who’s in charge of the whole university. Program director, who is always a professor and he teaches. The last one is department chair, who is in charge of the whole departments.

  首先,你的知道学校里的三个重要人物。他们是校长,他负责整个大学。部门督导,他通常是个教授。最后是系主任,他负责所有的系

  B:Then what comes after them?

  那他们之后呢?

  A:Then there comes dean, who’s in charge of diffenent colleges.

  之后是主任。他负责各个分院

  B:Where do I pay the tuition?

  我在哪交学费呢?

  A:The Bursar’s Office. That is also a place where you can apply for financial aid. But make sure you apply for the loan every January.

  财务处。在这里你也可以申请经济援助。但只能在一月申请

  B:Thank. What about registering classes? where should I go to register my class?

  谢谢。那我在哪登记课程呢?

  A:You’ll have to go to the Registra. A Registrar could be a person, and it could be a department.

  你得去登记处。

  B:Is there more?

  还有吗?

  A:Of course. Cause you are a foreign student, I’m afraid you’ll have to go to the Study Abroad Department. That’s a department that helps abroad students to get housing and other stuff.

  当然,因为你是外国学生,恐怕你得去一趟海外学生部。那是帮留学生找房子和办其它事情的部门。

  B:Jesus. There’re so many things to remember.

  老天,这么多

  A:And they have…

  还有…

  B:[Exaggeration]Oh my God.

  [夸张地]天啊

  Attention Please…特别提醒

  [你可以请外教反复帮你模仿/训练下面句子/词组的正宗美式发音]

  [1] where do I pay the tuition? Tuition通常是指学费,而另外一个词Fee则是指杂费。上学时我们会交学杂费,因此就有tuition fee合用的情况。

  [2]这是学员们教学费的地方。这个词即可以指人,也可以指地方。

  [3] Registrar课堂登记处

  Related Words…相关词汇

  以下这些词并未给出汉语意思,你可以试着用我们学到的英语问问外教它们的意思

  [ ie:What does“***”mean?“***”是什么意思?]

  student lounge tenure professor associate professor assistant professor auditorium dormitory
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