时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:VOA慢速英语2007年(一)月


英语课
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.

We come to the twentieth week of our series on higher education in the United States. Today we answer two e-mails from Thailand. A refugee 1 from Burma and another listener in Thailand both want to know more about the Fulbright Program.

The Fulbright Program gives Americans a chance to study, teach or do research in other countries. And it gives people in other countries a chance to do the same in America.


Hala al-Sarraf, an Iraqi Fulbright scholar, appears before lawmakers in Congress in July of last year

Fulbright grants are given to graduate students, scholars and professionals. There is also a Fulbright exchange program just for teachers and administrators 2.

Each year about six thousand people receive Fulbright grants. The United States government pays most of the costs. Foreign governments and schools help by sharing costs and providing other support.

The Fulbright Program operates in about one hundred fifty countries. Around two hundred seventy thousand Fulbrighters have taken part over the years.

Legislation 3 by Senator 4 William Fulbright established the program in nineteen forty-six. He saw educational exchange as a way to help people understand other ideas and ways of life. Senator Fulbright also believed the program could educate future world leaders.

In nineteen sixty-eight, the Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program began. This Fulbright program brings foreign teachers to the United States to work with high school or college students.

Two other Fulbright programs that offer ways to come to the United States are the foreign student and visiting scholar programs. The Foreign Student Program brings graduate students to study and do research at a college or university. The Visiting Scholar Program brings foreign experts to speak and do research for up to a year.

The list of countries in the Fulbright Program changes each year. And the requirements may differ from country to country.

You can learn more about the program from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the State Department. We have a link to the program's Web site at www.unsv.com. Or do a search on the Internet for Fulbright Program.

You can also contact the local Fulbright Commission 5 or American Embassy 6 in your country for more information.

And that's the VOA Special English Education Report, written by Nancy Steinbach. To send us e-mail, write to special@voanews.com. I'm Steve Ember.

n.难民,流亡者
  • The refugee was condemned to a life of wandering.这个难民注定要过流浪的生活。
  • The refugee is suffering for want of food and medical supplies.难民苦于缺少食物和医药用品。
n.管理者( administrator的名词复数 );有管理(或行政)才能的人;(由遗嘱检验法庭指定的)遗产管理人;奉派暂管主教教区的牧师
  • He had administrators under him but took the crucial decisions himself. 他手下有管理人员,但重要的决策仍由他自己来做。 来自辞典例句
  • Administrators have their own methods of social intercourse. 办行政的人有他们的社交方式。 来自汉英文学 - 围城
n.立法,法律的制定;法规,法律
  • They began to draft legislation.他们开始起草法规。
  • The liberals band together against the new legislation.自由党员联合一致反对新的立法。
n.参议员,评议员
  • The senator urged against the adoption of the measure.那参议员极力反对采取这项措施。
  • The senator's speech hit at government spending.参议员的讲话批评了政府的开支。
n.委托,授权,委员会,拥金,回扣,委任状
  • The salesman can get commission on everything he sells.这个售货员能得到所售每件货物的佣金。
  • The commission is made up of five people,including two women.委员会由五人组成,其中包括两名妇女。
n.大使馆,大使及其随员
  • Large crowd demonstrated outside the British Embassy.很多群众在英国大使馆外面示威。
  • He's a U.S. diplomat assigned to the embassy in London.他是美国驻伦敦大使馆的一名外交官。
学英语单词
action front
addings
admissible map
ansen
anywhere near
artaxerxes iis
Avila
Az Zaqāzīq
beneship
bulbectomy
capsicum
cardiac edema
carrier task force
cdc25
central pontine myelinolysis
Certificate in Education
Claudel
coming-on
compatible event
conjugate direction algorithm
Connecticut River
contact process
copper choppers
crankshaft end bearing
Dalbergia kingiana
drill cutter
driver's safety device
DT/Vac/APT
dynamic flight simulator
elevate to
energy alternative
equal nipple
expostulation
f-type
feedback error control
flank of cam
flowering aquatic plant
franklinian goesyncline
FYI
glieberman
gottwalds
haruo
have been in
have voice in
heat ray
Helleno-Armenian
HMMT
honeycakes
horseshoe kidney
Hydnum aurantiacum
i-search
incline one's ear
interest-bearing balance
iodo-isopropyl alcohol
Jupiter magnetic field
kickumbob
kleinere
Langendorff cells
loose core
matte up
metamycin
methylarginines
mishooks
misproportions
misteach
municipalises
non-numerical
normal substitution
NSAPI
onychothemis testacea tonkinensis
opdoes
particulate phase
Percy Isles
phosphorus pentahalide
pinacotheca
pocket breads
pre-Han
primary visual cortex
printing calculator
pygmy cypresses
rate of circulation
region of nonoperation
rhythmic time signal
s-milk
savabi
scraper-bar
sellafield
shiver me timbers
slow-wittedly
soap factor
Soofeeism
sulcus sigmoideus
taxon
tendoplasty
Tëplyy Stan
unconsolable
unmanned aircraft warning network
variable reluctance transduction lement
Venezuelan monetary unit
water pump propeller
weche
winter monsoon