大学英语自学教程 下册 un15

[12:25.61]Some of the major banks, for example,
[12:27.65]例如,
[12:29.69]are studying the possibility of entrance examinatnons
[12:34.83]that would test the knowledge and abilities of graduates applying for jobs
[12:37.62]例如,一些大银行正在研究测试求职毕业生的知识和能力的入门考试的可能性.
[12:40.40]Students and parents,too,
[12:43.87]will demand greater accountability from schools on all levels.
[12:46.60]  学生和父母也希望积极级学校有更好的成绩责任制.
[12:49.33]It will be increasingly common to go to lawagainst school districts
[12:52.36]因为学校授予学位却没有传授给学生样应该得到的技能而状告校区
[12:55.39]and colleges for awarding degrees without imparting the skills
[13:01.14]that are supposed to go along with them
[13:02.90]和学院的事会越来截止常见.
[13:04.67]And many young people are already switching to practical"hard"subjects
[13:07.64]许多青年人已经转向更实际的"难学的"课程.
[13:10.62]Caring little about the so-called "youth culture" and the media,
[13:13.21]由于不怎么关心所谓的"青年文化"和媒体,
[13:15.79]they have been shifting from psychology into medicine,
[13:18.22]他们一直在从心理学转入医学,
[13:20.65]from sociology into accounting and from black studies into computer programming.
[13:24.22]从社会学转入会计学,从黑人研究转入计算机编程.
[13:27.78]Demand for education is actually going up, not down.
[13:30.61]  对教育的要求事实上正在提高,并非降低.
[13:33.43]What is going down, and fairly fast,
[13:37.68]is demand for traditional education in traditional schools:
[13:40.47]正在降低,并且降得相当快的是对传统学校中传统教育的要求.
[13:43.25]Indeed,the fastest growing industry in America today
[13:45.82]实际上,当今美国增长最快的产业
[13:48.40]may be the continuing professional education of highly schooled adults
[13:51.41]能是已上了不少学的成年人的继续职业教育.
[13:54.43]Much of it takes place outside the education establishment through companies,
[13:57.69]这种教育大部分发生在教育机构之外
[14:00.96]hospitals and government departments that run courses for managerial
[14:04.09]--通过公司,医院和政府部门,
[14:07.23]and professional employees or through management associations
[14:13.08]and trade associations.
[14:14.77]这些单位为其雇佣的管理人员和专业人员开设课程,
[14:16.45]In the meantime,any number of private enterprises are organizing courses
[14:19.62]或者通过管理协会或待业协会进行.
[14:22.80]producing training films and tapes
[14:24.68]同时,许多么人企业已在组织课程,制作培训电影和磁带,
[14:26.56]and other wise taking advantage of growth opportunities
[14:28.92]并以其他方式利用着各种增长的机会,
[14:31.29]that universities shy away from.
[14:33.27]而这些机会是大学避而不用的.
[14:35.26]The demand for continuing education does not take the form that most observers,
[14:38.54]  对继续教育的要求不是采取大多数观察者,
[14:41.82]including this writer,originally expectednamely,
[14:44.04]包括本文作者原来预期的形式
[14:46.26]"Great Books" classes for adults wanting to learn about the humanities
[14:52.81]the arts,the "life of the mind.
[14:54.94]--即给想了解人文科学,艺术和尽智的活动的成年人用"大部头书"上课.
[14:57.07]We face instead a growing demand for advanced professional education
[14:59.94]代之,我们面临着日益增长对高级专业教育的要求:
[15:02.82]in engineering and medicine,in accounting and journalism,
[15:05.60]在工程学和医学,会计学和新闻学,
[15:08.38]in law and in administration and management.
[15:10.56]法律和管理方面.
[15:12.74]Yet the adults who come back for such studies also demand
[15:18.10]what teachers of professional subjects are so rarely able to supply:
[15:21.06]  然而回来进行这类学习的成年人所要求的东西却是专业课程的教师很少能提供的:
[15:24.03]a humanistic perspective that can integrate advanced professional
[15:29.88]and technical knowledge into a broader universe of experience and learning
[15:33.12]一种能把先进的专业技术知识洪到经验和常识更广阔的普遍体系中的人文主义的观点.
[15:36.36]Since these new students also need unconventional hours--evenings,
[15:39.48]因为这些"新"学生需要非常规的时间
[15:42.60]weekends or high-intensity courses that stuff a term's work into two weeks