乌干达总统批评高校"非市场需要"课程

短语讲解：

1. Instead, Museveni is urging Ugandan universities and students to focus their resources on the sciences, information technology and business.

focus on对(某事或做某事)予以注意
例句：Many firms are focusing on increasing their markets overseas.
许多商行都专注于扩大国外市场。

2. If you are going to study the history of Rwanda, if you are going to study the reality of Congo, if you are going to look at 2007 in Kenya, if you are going to look at the case of Sudan - let's look at the countries around us.

look at看, 注视(某人或某物)
例句：He looked at me with scorn.
他轻蔑地看了看我。

3. Now let's come back to Uganda and its political evolution - we are a county that has been shaped by conflicts.

come back回来
例句：I'm going away and I may never come back.
我要走了, 可能永远不再回来。

4. At Makarere University, students are divided over whether or not focusing on marketable courses would be good for the country.

whether or not无论; 是否
例句：Whether you like the idea or not, I'm going ahead with it.
无论你是否喜欢这个意见, 我将继续做下去。
be good for对……有好处
例句：The Olympics will be good for tourism.
奥运会将让旅游业大放异彩。

5. But a group of finance students nearby approved of the president's recommendations, arguing that a focus on marketable courses would improve employment prospects for everyone.

approve of赞成, 赞同
例句：Everybody approves of the plans for a new school building.
大家都赞成建造一所新校舍的计划。

6. "It will help a few students who are taking them, and I believe with time we shall get more jobs created, compared to just doing many courses in the university and to then go out there looking for things to do in vain," he said.

compare to与…相比; 与…相比
例句：The writer was compared to Shakespeare.
把这个作家与莎士比亚进行了比较。
look for寻找(某人或某物)
例句：He began to look for a new job immediately after he was fired.
他被解雇后立即开始寻找一份新工作。
in vain白费地, 徒劳无益地; 无效果的, 无用的
例句：We tried in vain to make him change his mind.
我们试图使他改变主意, 结果是白费心机。

7. This leaves out courses like agriculture, teacher training and conflict resolution, which, he says are not where the most jobs are to be found, but which are nonetheless very important.

leave out遗漏, 省略, 删去; 未顾及, 忽略
例句：She left out an important item in her account.
她的账目漏掉了一个重要的项目。

8. So I would argue national governments should also encourage people to enroll in these other disciplines.

enroll in (使)加入
例句：I should like to enroll all my children in the swimming class.
我愿意让我的孩子们都参加游泳班。

9. One philosophy student said he thinks the president's ideas on education have more to do with trying to maintain his own hold on power, than with education itself.

do with与…有关
例句：I'm interested in anything to do with music.
凡与音乐有关的事我都感兴趣。

10. But if necessary, she says, they would be willing to review the arts and social sciences curricula, taking into account the needs of potential employers.

take into account考虑到;体谅
例句：They had to take the baby into account when they wanted to go out.
每当要外出时,他们总得考虑如何将婴孩安顿好。