哈佛大學校園英語情景對話10：哈佛商學院

J: Bravo!

J：好極了 !

H: Hey, John, what made you so excited?

H:梅，約翰，是什么讓你這么興奮?

J: The markets closed strongly last week. The S&P 500 finished up 0.74%, while the DJIA rose 0.65%and the NASDAQ gained 0.19%.

J：上固股票市場強勢收盤。標準普爾500指數(shù)收盤0.74%,道瓊斯工業(yè)平均指數(shù) (DJIA )上漲0.65 % ,納斯達克指數(shù)增進0.19 %。

H： What are you talking about?

H:你在說什么呢?

J： The stock markets.

J:股票市場。

H: Did the markets rebound? But, are you speculating in the stock market?

H:股市反彈了嗎?你在投資股票嗎?

J; Of course not. I’m just interested in economy and business.

J：當然不是。我只是對經(jīng)濟和商業(yè)感興趣而已。

H: You always surprise me. Hello, Mr. All-round.

H:你總是讓我吃驚。你好，全能先生!

J: I told you I，ll study color=red onmouseover="mouseevent('business administration',event)">business administration for my master degree.

J：我跟你說過我碩士會讀工商管理專業(yè)。

H: Did you? (Han thinks for a while.) Oh, yes, you did. color=redonmouseover="mouseevent('Business administration ',event)">Business administration is promising.

H:是嗎?( 梅梅想了一會。)哦，是的，你說過。工商管理很有前途。

J: Not all the time. Due to the financial crisis, a lot of people on Wall Street have lost their jobs.

J:也并不總是這樣的。由于金融危機，華爾街的 很多人都失業(yè)了。

H: Indeed. As far as I know, in the first half of 2007, the Chinese stock market was still the color=redonmouseover="mouseevent('bull market',event)">bull market. Then in the second half year, itplunged and became a color=red onmouseover="mouseevent('bear market',event)">bear market.

H:是的。據(jù)我所知，在2007車前半車，中國的股市還是牛市，但到了后半年，股 市就開始下跌變成了熊市。

J： Things are getting better now. So I’m still color=red onmouseover="mouseevent('bullish',event)"> bullish on business administration.

J：現(xiàn)在情況有所好轉(zhuǎn)。所以我仍然看好工商管理專業(yè)。

H: MBA is very popular now. What’s so good about it?

H: MBA現(xiàn)在非常流行。它有什么好的呀?

J： I don’t know how other people see it, I want to learn it out of interest.

J：我不知道其他人怎么看待工商管理，我是出于興趣才想學它的。

H: But a lot of people just follow the crowd, believing that MBA can bring them status and money.

H:但是許多人僅僅是隨大流，認為MBA能帶給他們地位和金錢。

J: That may be an important reason why so many people all over the world want to Study Harvard’sMBA,

J:這可能是為什么全世界那么多人想到哈佛讀MBA的一個重要原因吧。

H: Why Harvard? I’m not saying it’s not good. I heard that it is only ranked third in the FinancialTimes Global MBA Rankings 2010 and in color=red onmouseover="mouseevent('Forbes BestBusiness Schools',event)">Forbes Best Business Schools. It is even rank I4tb in Wall Street JournalMBA Rankings.

H:為什么是哈佛?我不是說哈佛不好。我聽說哈佛的MBA在《金融時報》2010年 全球MBA排名和福布斯最佳商學院中只排第3,甚至在《華爾街日報》MBA排名 中只排第14位。

J: I never believe in those color=red onmouseover="mouseevent('alleged',event)">alleged rankings. Ionly believe that Harvard Business School is the founder of MBA and the case method which is usedworldwide.

J:我從來不相信這些所謂的排名。我只相信哈佛商學院是MBA和全世界都在用的案 例教學法的奠基者。

H: What’s the case method?

H:什么是案例教學法?

J: That is to say, professors provide a case for you to study. It is more materialized, rather than purelytheoretical.

J:就是敎授給你一個案例讓你去研究。案例是更實體化的，而不是純理論的。

H; Oh, I see. Nevertheless, I admire those people, including you, needless to say. It must be dcolor=red onmouseover="mouseevent('emanding ',event)">emanding to finish MBA study atHarvard.

H:哦，我明白了。我羨慕那些人，不用說也包括你啦。在哈佛大學完成MBA學業(yè)的 要求一定很高。

J: How to say. It’s quite odd that in the first year, students will be burdened with courses that leadyou nowhere. In the second year, however, life will be surprisingly easy.

J:怎么說呢。很奮怪，第一年課程很多讓你設(shè)時間做其他事，但是第二年生活就變 得很輕松。

H: How does it happen?

H:為什么呢?

J: Almost 75% of the tasks are color=red onmouseover="mouseevent(' compressed',event)">compressed to be finished in the first year. Then 20% are left to the first semester of the second year.By the last semester few tasks are left.

J:大約75%的學習都被壓縮在第一年完成。還有20 %安排在第二年的第一學期， 最后一個學期就剩下很少的工作了。

H: That is really unbalanced. So，only two years?

H:這也太不平衡了。這么說學習時間只有兩年嗎?

J; Yes, but in these two years, students have to analyze more than 800 cases, about one case eachday.

J:是的。但在這兩年里，學生必須要分析800多個案例，差不多每天一個。

H: Given the imbalance of the tasks, students of the first year will work color=redonmouseover="mouseevent('around the clock',event)">around the clock.

H:考慮到學習安排的不平衡，學生在第一年得夜以繼日地工作吧。

J: They do. They often stay up until one or two in the morning and go to class at eight, or sleep evenless.

J:是這樣的。學生經(jīng)常熬夜到半夜一兩點，早上八點又要去上課,有的睡眠時間更少。

H: No pains, no gains.

H: 一分耕転，一分收獲嘛。

J: Then in class, they have to be prepared for the questions from professors.

J:在課堂上，他們還要準備回答教授的問題。

H： I can say “sorry” or “pass”.

H:可以說“對不起，我不會”或者"放棄”呀。

J: That’s a big no-no. If you pass twice, you’ll never receive your degree. Three times, sorry, you gohome.

J:這可是大忌。如果你放棄兩次，就永遠別想拿到學位。放棄三次，對不起，回家吧。

H: Oh, My God! That’s quite different from Chinese universities. Are all American graduate collegeslike this?

H:哦，天哪!這和中國的大學太不一樣了。所有的美國研究生院都是這樣的嗎?

J: Not really. But they definitely demand more from students. It’s good for students.

J:不見得。但是對學生的要求確實很高。這對學生有好處。