不可不知的美国100所名校（英汉双语版）

哈佛大学首当其冲，多数都是私立大学，这与国内倒是大相径庭。

R2大学当中还有，就怕你进不去的历史悠久的工科顶尖大学 老布什总统爷爷的母校 19世纪和MIT齐名的Stevens Institute of Technology，德州第二大的富家子弟私立大学Fort worth市中心 Texas Christian University， 两个距离只有40公里整天死磕到底的两个德州4万学生规模的大学Texas State University University of Texas at San Antonio，航天科技的花园城市University of Alabama in Huntsville，科罗拉多泉号称美国西部山区第一富裕 人均收入进入美国前十University of Colorado Colorado Springs，你申请过的私立卫理公会大学 富家子弟学校University of Denver，巴尔迪摩市南郊区的医学院超强的University of Maryland, Baltimore County，医学院很强的University of Missouri–Kansas City，商学院很强的University of Nebraska at Omaha，University of North Carolina at Charlotte Public Charlotte NC University of North Carolina at Greensboro 天主教私立富家子弟学校 俯瞰大海 纯白色建筑群 美极了的 University of San Diego，俄克拉何马州第二大城市石油城 私立大学University of Tulsa，科研经费已经2亿美元铁定进入R1的Utah State University，费城西郊富人区的天主教私立大学 篮球超级好全国总冠军 Villanova University，北卡州的私立大学教育质量超高的Wake Forest University，马塞诸塞州私立工科大学 清华大学校长梅贻琦的母校 就业率很高的Worcester Polytechnic Institute

纯纯的干货，干的都有点儿读不下去，不过还是努力扫完了！对美国的大学有了丢丢了解，在那里会发光的不只是公立大学，更多的私立学校同样取得非凡的成绩，他们的历史延续性很强，动辄都几百年的历史，让我们有几千年文化的国家汗颜！他们的教学，管理都别具一格、各有特色，就像有的学校学生可以自行管理，他们老师和学生的比例很小，他们基本都和社会接轨，他们研究生的比例其实很高，等等，我们的距离不是一点

2022年11月19日 星期六 祝福早安 天气多云 气温11℃ 《不可不知的美国100所名校》 A belief is not merely an idea that mind possesses. It is an idea that possesses the mind. 信仰不只是一种受头脑支配的思想, 它也是一种可以支配头脑的思想。 坚定的信念，是我们掌握命运的前提。 我们有怎样的信念，就会有怎样的人生，没有坚定的信念，我们必将一生迷茫彷徨，无所事事。 成功，首先要从心开始。外界的因素经常会干扰我们前进，但是我们前进力量的来源就是我们的信念。只要信念坚定，我们就有无坚不摧的可能。 You just have to show up or show at so often. Time after time you gotta wake up and you gotta drive. You gotta be driven to get something done now. 你要让世人看见你的努力，你要一次次地觉醒，你要找到自己的动力，你要让一股力量驱使你去实现梦想。 丹佛大学：为了科学与信仰 英文导读 Back to its origin The University of Denver (DU)， founded in 1864， is the oldest private university in the Rocky Mountain Region of the United States.The University of Denver is a coeducational， four-year university in Denver， Colorado. On March 3， 1864 the university was founded as the Colorado Seminary by John Evans， the former Governor of Colorado Territory， who had been appointed by President Abraham Lincoln. By 1880， the Colorado Seminary had been renamed the University of Denver. The University of Denver offers a dynamic learning environment that prizes innovation， cross-disciplinary exploration， and adventurous learning partnerships between students and faculty. Nearly 75 percent of all University of Denver students participate in study abroad programs， studying everything from economics in Budapest to engineering in Australia. The heart of the campus has a number of historic buildings. The longest-standing building is University Hall. More information System： The University of Denver is organized into 11 colleges and schools including： Daniels College of Business， Sturm College of Law， The Women"s College of the University of Denver， University College University of Denver， Morgridge College of Education， Graduate School of Professional Psychology， Graduate School of Social Work， Josef Korbel School of International Studies， Lamont School of Music， School of Engineering and Computer Science， Media， Film， and Journalism Studies. City show： Denver is a consolidated city and county located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Denver is nicknamed the Mile-High City. 生词助读 appoint [pint] vt. 任命；指定 participate [pɑ：tisipeit] vi. 参与；参加 中文概述 丹佛大学是一所四年制私立大学，成立于1864年。学校最初的名字为科罗拉多州神学院，直到1880年，学校才被改名为丹佛大学。丹佛大学位于科罗拉多州首府丹佛市，是洛基山地区最老且最大的一所私立大学。 酒店及餐室专业管理课程闻名遐迩，全美名列前茅。商学院办得非常好，尤其是会计、专业管理及财务。国际研究是丹佛大学另一较好的学科，学生并且有机会到外国进修，所得学分一律予以承认。其他不错的学科还有化学、物理、音乐、计算机科学、心理学和大众传播。学生选修最多的学科是商科、社会科学、历史学、计算机及自然科学、生物科学。其商学院始建于1908年，是美国8所最古老的商学院之一，与哈佛、耶鲁等学院齐名。 丹佛大学规定第一、二年学生都必须修读一些核心课程，学生可选读人文学科、数学、外文、社会科学、传意学、自然科学及"大学经验"，跨进第三年才需要选择主修及副修科目。美国前国务卿赖斯就是该校的学生。 丹佛大学校园的景色就像一个大的植物园，校园生活亦是多彩多姿，不管你是玩音乐、游泳、滑雪、戏剧表演、报纸专栏写作、校园义工等，你都可以享受体验不同的文化和娱乐。另外，丹佛大学的学生可以凭自己的学生卡免费乘坐轻轨和公交车。 梦想成功录 The three foundations of learning： seeing much ，suffering much， and studying much. 求学的三个基本条件：多观察、多磨砺、多研究。 A generation without a cause in its youth has no legacy in its old age. 一代人如果年轻时候没有事业，老了就不会有遗产可以传下去。 纽约州立大学宾汉姆顿分校：见识由广入深 英文导读 Back to its origin The State University of New York， Binghamton， also known as Binghamton University， (commonly referred to as Binghamton or BU)， is a public research university in the U.S. state of New York. The university is one of the four university centers in the State University of New York (SUNY) system. Binghamton University was first established in 1946 as Triple Cities College to serve the needs of local veterans returning from World War II of the Triple Cities area. Thomas J. Watson of IBM was an early supporter of the college and provided some of the initial support and helped to establish it in Endicott， New York； the college was a branch of Syracuse University. Originally， Triple Cities College offered local students the first two years of their education， while the following two were spent at Syracuse. However， starting in the 1948-1949 year， students were allowed to earn their degrees entirely in Binghamton. When the college split from Syracuse and became incorporated into the State University of New York (SUNY) in 1950， it was renamed Harpur College， in honor of Robert Harpur， a Colonial teacher and pioneer who settled in the Binghamton area. Of the four University Centers (Stony Brook， Albany， Buffalo and Binghamton)， Binghamton was the first to join SUNY. More information System： Binghamton comprises the following colleges and schools including： Harpur College of Arts and Sciences， The College of Community and Public Affairs， The Decker School of Nursing， The Graduate School of Education， The School of Management， Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science. Note： Binghamton offers more than 80 academic undergraduate majors and more than 30 graduate majors. There also exist interdisciplinary programs that allow individualized degree programs at both the undergraduate and graduate level. There are also several combined-degree programs which allow students to complete both their undergraduate and graduate degrees in five years. City show： Binghamton is the principal city and cultural center of the Greater Binghamton metropolitan area (also known as the "Triple Cities").Binghamton is known for its bicycling and walking clubs， facilities， and trails. Binghamton is a transportation crossroad and a manufacturing center， and has been known at different times for the production of cigars， shoes， and high-tech products. Binghamton has a humid continental climate， with cold， snowy winters and warm， wet summers. 生词助读 veteran [vetrn] n. 老兵；老手 split [split] vi. 离开；被劈开；断绝关系 individualize [individjulaiz] vt. 赋予个性 中文概述 纽约州立大学宾汉姆顿分校始建于1946年，位于宾汉姆顿市，已成为美国东北部顶尖的公立大学，是纽约州立大学系统中排名和声望最高的大学。 其前身为三城学院，设校目的是为第二次世界大战后的老兵进行战后技能训练。于公元1950年并入纽约州立大学体系，当时校名为哈波学院，直到1992年正式改名为纽约州立大学宾汉姆顿分校。 宾汉姆顿分校设有六个学院： 护理学院、人文科学学院、社会与公共事务学院、教育学院、管理学院、工程和应用科学学院。宾汉姆顿大学的商学院在美国公立大学中属于佼佼者，学院的师资力量很强，在各个领域内均有建树。护理学院是本校就业率最高的学院，就业率达到了100%，相当于一进入该学院，就意味着一只脚已经踏上了工作岗位。学生选读最多的学科是社会科学、商科管理、文科、心理学和生命科学。 宾汉姆顿大学靠山面河，校园前有美国东海岸最长的河流--萨斯奎汉纳河流过，为繁忙的校园生活增加了不少悠闲的情趣。校园并有四分之一的面积是自然保护区，其中包括森林、湿地与湖泊。在自然保护区旁设置了纽约州唯一一座多温调节温室，极大地方便了植物学、生物学、生物化学等相关科系的研究。 宾汉姆顿市是标准的大陆型气候，冬冷夏热，四季分明。秋天是宾汉姆顿最美丽的季节，满城火红的枫叶为这个冷色系色彩浓郁的北方之都增添了难得的热情。 You gotta be willing to stand on your beliefs. Cuz a lot of times you're the only one who can see it. And other people don't see it really. But you gotta really believe in what you've got inside of you that's telling you and driving you to a certain goal. 你要勇于坚持自己的信念。因为，很多时候，和其他人相比，你才是最清醒的人。但是，你必须对自己的梦想有信心，要对你的目标和动力有信心。 I hope you learn humility by surviving failure 亲爱的孙子，我希望你在经受失败的考验之后能学会谦卑， and that you learn to be honest even when no one is looking. 也希望你能学会诚实，即使在没有人注视你的时候。 I hope you learn to make your bed and mow the lawn and wash the car- 我希望你能学会自己叠被子，自己修剪草坪，自己洗车-- and I hope nobody gives you a brand-new car when you are sixteen. 我还希望在你满十六岁时，没有人送给你一辆崭新的轿车。 It will be good if at least one time you can see a baby calf born, 假如你至少有一次机会看见小牛犊出生， and you have a good friend to be with you if you ever have to put your old dog to sleep. 假如你不得不为你的老狗送终，而此时身边有一位好友陪伴安慰---那样该有多好啊！ I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in. 我希望你能为自己的信仰挺身而出、奋力守护。 I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger brother. And it is all right to draw a line down the middle of the room, 我希望你能和弟弟共用一间卧室--即使你在卧室中间划一条分界线也没关系。 but when he wants to crawl under the covers with you because he is scared, I hope you'll let him. 可是，当弟弟因为害怕要爬进你的被窝时，我希望你接纳他。 And when you want to see a Disney movie and your kid brother wants to tag along, I hope you take him. 当你要出去看迪斯尼电影，你的小弟弟想做你的小尾巴时，我希望你会乐意带上他。 I hope you have to walk uphill with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do it safely. 我希望你能和朋友们一起爬山，而在你所生活的城市里，做这项运动不会有什么危险。 If you want a slingshot, I hope your father teaches you how to make one instead of buying one. 如果你想要一把弹弓，我希望你父亲能教你怎样自己做一把，而不是为你买一把现成的。 I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books, and when you learn to use computers, you also learn how to add and subtract in your head. 我还希望你能学会挖泥巴、也学会读书；而就算你学会了使用电脑，也不放弃学习加减法的心算。 I hope you get razzed by friends when you have your first crush on a girl, and that when you talk back to your mother you learn what Ivory soap tastes like. 当你第一次喜欢上一个女孩时，我希望你会遭受朋友的嘲弄；而当你跟你母亲顶嘴时，希望她叫你尝一尝肥皂的滋味。 May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on the stove and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole. 但愿你能在爬山时弄破膝盖上的皮，或者在炉子上烧伤手，或者让舌头粘在结冰的旗杆上。 I hope you get sick when someone blows smoke in your face. 我希望吸烟者对着你的脸上喷吐烟雾时，你会感到恶心。 I don't care if you try beer once, but I hope you won't like it. 如果你尝试喝一次啤酒，我不会在意；但是我希望你不会喜欢上它。 And if a friend offers you a joint or any drugs, I hope you are smart enough to realize that person is not your friend. 如果有一位朋友请你吸一口含大麻的香烟，或者任何毒品，我希望你明智地意识到他不是你的朋友。 I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your grandpa or go fishing with your uncle. 我当然希望你能抽时间来陪爷爷在门廊上坐一坐，或者陪叔叔钓钓鱼。 I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through a neighbor's window, 如果你把捧球扔进了邻居的窗户，我希望你母亲惩罚你。 and that she hugs you and kisses you when you give her a plaster of pared mold of your hand. 如果你能剪掉指甲，用石膏做一只自己的手的模型送给妈妈，我希望她会回赠你拥抱和亲吻。 These things I wish for you-tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. 我希望你能经历：艰难的岁月，挫折和失望；希望你努力工作，幸福快乐。 Every minute you decide upon something, you know that's what you want. You know you're going to do it. All of these negatives that have been bothering you, they pick up their baggage and get out. They can't live in any positive mind. You have to move with courage, with faith, with determination. 每次做决定，你都清楚地知道，这就是你想要的。你知道自己要努力实现它。那些曾经让你心烦意乱的消极的声音，会悄然溜走，因为积极的心态容不得它们存在。你要勇往直前，你要心怀信念，你要意志坚定。 University of Massachusetts Amherst: Peace only un 马萨诸塞大学安姆斯特分校：只在自由之下的和平 英文导读 Back to its origin The University of Massachusetts Amherst (otherwise known as Massachusetts， UMass， or UMass Amherst) is a public research and land-grant university in Amherst， Massachusetts and the flagship of the University of Massachusetts system. The university was founded in 1863 under the provisions of the Federal Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act to provide instruction to Massachusetts citizens in the "agricultural， mechanical， and military arts". The university was initially named the Massachusetts Agricultural College. More information System： The university offers bachelor"s degrees， master"s degrees， and doctoral degrees in 88 undergraduate and 72 graduate areas of study， through nine schools and colleges including：School of Education， College of Engineering， College of Humanities and Fine Arts， Isenberg School of Management， College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics， the Stockbridge School of Agriculture， School of Nursing， School of Public Health and Health Sciences， College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. W.E.B. DuBois library： The W.E.B. DuBois library is the tallest library in the United States and the tallest academic library in the world. It is also well regarded for its innovative architectural design， which incorporates the bookshelves into the structural support of the building.It is home of the memoirs and papers of the distinguished African-American activist and Massachusetts native W. E. B. Du Bois as well as being the depository for other important collections， such as the papers of the late Congressman Silvio O. Conte. The W.E.B. Du Bois Library is well regarded for its innovative architectural design， which incorporates the bookshelves into the structural support of the building. 生词助读 provision [prvin] n. 规定；条款 memoir [memwɑ：] n. 回忆录；自传 depository [dipzitri] n. 贮藏所；存储处 中文概述 马萨诸塞大学建校于1863年，是美国一所著名的研究机构，坐落在美丽富饶的新英格兰镇，四周环绕小山、森林、湖泊以及草地，离开波士顿和纽约城只有几个小时。 马萨诸塞大学安姆斯特分校是美国著名公立大学系统麻省大学中的一员，也是建校最早的校区。马萨诸塞大学安姆斯特分校由马萨诸塞州出资协助，是麻省大学系统中的旗舰分校区，属于研究型大学，并被授予美国"最佳公立大学"之一。 安姆斯特分校有九个学院，主要包括：教育学院、工程学院、人文和艺术学院、管理学院、自然科学学院、护理学院、公共卫生和健康科学学院、社会和行为科学学院、农学院。 安姆斯特分校的一大特色是为本科生提供了直接参与研究的机会，同时也提供服务与志愿机会。 威廉·爱得华·伯格哈特·杜波依斯（W.E.B. DuBois）图书馆是美国最高的图书馆，是世界上最高的学术图书馆，也是创新的建筑设计的代表作。它将书架并入结构性支架中。这里收藏着非洲裔美国人和马萨诸塞州本土政治家的回忆录。 梦想成功录 If you are patient in one moment of anger， you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. 忍一时风平浪静，退一步雨过天晴。 An active man could find a chance from every suffering while a passive man would suffer in every chance. 积极的人在每一次忧患中都看到一个机会，而消极的人则在每个机会中都看到某种忧患。 Iowa State University: Science with practice 爱荷华州立大学：科学与实践相结合 英文导读 Back to its origin Iowa State University of Science and Technology， more commonly known as Iowa State University (ISU)， is a public land-grant and space-grant research university located in Ames， Iowa， United States. In 1856， the Iowa General Assembly enacted legislation to establish the State Agricultural College and Model Farm. Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm (now Iowa State University) was officially established on March 22， 1858， by the legislature of the State of Iowa. Iowa was the first state in the nation to accept the provisions of the Morrill Act of 1862. Iowa subsequently designated Iowa State as the land-grant college on March 29， 1864. Iowa State is a leader in agriculture， engineering， extension， and home economics， and created the nation"s first state veterinary medicine school in 1879. In 1933， Iowa State established the Statistical Laboratory. It was and is the first research and consulting institute of its kind in the country. On July 4， 1959， the college was officially renamed Iowa State University of Science and Technology. However， the short name "Iowa State University"is used even in official documents. More information System： ISU is organized into eight colleges that offer 100 Bachelors degree programs， 115 Masters programs， 83 Ph.D programs， and one professional degree program in Veterinary Medicine.ISU consists of the following colleges： College of Agriculture and Life Sciences， College of Business， College of Design， College of Engineering， College of Human Sciences， College of Liberal Arts & Sciences， College of Veterinary Medicine.In addition to these seven colleges， the Graduate College oversees graduate study in all fields. VEISHEA： Iowa State celebrated its first VEISHEA in 1922. The name of the festival is an acronym， based on the first letters of Iowa State"s colleges： Veterinary Medicine， Engineering， Industrial Science， Home Economics， and Agriculture. VEISHEA has grown to become the largest student-run festival in the nation. Its traditions includes open houses， a cultural festival， an international food fair， and carnival games for children， etc. 生词助读 acronym [krnim] n. 首字母缩略词 open house 开放参观日；家庭招待会 carnival [kɑ：nivl] n. 狂欢节；嘉年华 中文概述 爱荷华州立大学建立于1858年，是美国爱荷华州的公立大学，也是一所土地赠与学院，位于该州安姆斯。其全称为爱荷华州立科学与技术大学，该校前身为爱荷华州立农学与机械学院，是一座以莫利尔学院土地赠送法案而创建的大学。 全校共分八所学院，最好的学科除了工程、农科和兽医学外，商科、设计、教育和传播学等都很有名气。目前最突出的学科是工程和农科。近些年，爱荷华州立大学在农业生物科技，植物和动物基因工程，生物信息工程，农产品和市场开发，人类营养，人类电脑功能，生物再利用和食品安全等重要的领域进行了大胆的新的成果转化研究。爱荷华州立大学以其在科学，工程和农学方面的专业见长，并且是世界上第一台电子计算机阿塔纳索夫-贝瑞计算机的诞生地，也是美国第一所公立兽医医院，第一所统计实验室的的诞生地。 爱荷华州立大学也由于VEISHEA而著名﹐这是一个每年春天在校园内举办的娱乐和教育相结合的庆典。其名源自1922年庆典创办之初的五个学院：兽医(Veterinary Medicine)，工程(Engineering)，工业科技(Industrial Science)，家庭经济(Home Economics)，和农学(Agriculture)的首字母组合。其主办者宣称这项活动是世界上最大的由学生组织的文化庆典之一。 学校的治安良好、景色优美，学术风格优异，加上该校为州立的高等学府，因此每年吸引大量来自世界各地的国际学生。 梦想成功录 If you ride a horse， sit close and tight； if you ride a man， sit easy and light. 骑马时应紧贴马背，待人则应平和可亲。 If you want to have wealth and happiness， you must know how to handle frustration. 如果你想拥有财富和幸福， 你就必须学会如何处理沮丧！ Miami University, Oxford 迈阿密大学牛津分校：有所成就而不是突出自己 英文导读 Back to its origin Miami University (informally known as Miami， Miami U， Miami of Ohio， and MU) is a coeducational public research university located in Oxford， Ohio， United States. Founded in 1809， although classes were not held until 1824， it is the 10th oldest public university in the United States and the second oldest university in Ohio， founded four years after Ohio University.The foundations for Miami University were first laid by an Act of Congress signed by President George Washington， stating that an academy should be located Northwest of the Ohio River in the Miami Valley. The Legislature passed "An Act to Establish the Miami University" on February 2， 1809， and a board of trustees was created by the state. The board of trustees closed the school in 1873， and leased the campus for a grammar school.The university re-opened in 1885， having paid all of its debts and repaired many of its buildings； there were forty students in its first year. The Oxford College for Women merged with Miami University in 1928. In 1974， The Western College for Women in Oxford， was sold to Miami； and President Shriver oversaw the creation of the well-respected and innovative Interdisciplinary Studies Program known as the Western College Program. More information System： Miami University has six academic divisions-the College of Arts & Science， the Farmer School of Business， the School of Engineering & Applied Science， the School of Education， Health， & Society， the School of Creative Arts， the School of Inter-disciplinary Studiesand the Graduate School.Note： The College of Arts & Science is the oldest and largest college at Miami， with nearly half of the undergraduate student body enrollment. Miami"s Farmer School of Business is a nationally recognized school of business that offers eight majors. The school also offers graduate MBA， accountancy， and economics degrees. Miami"s School of Creative Arts comprises four departments-architecture and interior design， music， theatre， and art. Each department has its own admission requirements separate from the standard admissions requirements for the University. Western College Program： The Western College Program was created in 1974 when the Western College for Women merged with Miami University. The program consisted of an interdisciplinary living/learning community with small class sizes and student-designed focuses. Majors included Interdisciplinary Studies， Environmental Science， and Environmental Studies. Academics were divided into three core areas： Creativity and Culture， Social Systems， and Natural Systems. 生词助读 academy [kdmi] n. 学院；研究院；专科院校 lease [li：s] vt. 出租 accountancy [kauntnsi] n. 会计工作；会计学 中文概述 迈阿密大学牛津分校是美国俄亥俄州的一所州立大学，它成立于1809年，是美国最优秀、最美丽的公立大学之一。迈阿密大学牛津分校本部位于美国俄亥俄州牛津市，同时在俄亥俄州的哈密顿（Hamilton）市和米德尔顿（Middletown）市，以及在欧洲的卢森堡设有三个分校。迈阿密大学牛津分校提供私立大学的教育环境，但只收公立大学的学费。随着学校的发展，迈阿密大学牛津分校的声誉不断提升，在19世纪七八十年代被誉为"西部耶鲁"。 迈阿密大学牛津分校现设有七个院系：文学与科学学院，商学院，教育学院，工程与应用科学学院，艺术学院，跨学科研究生院，研究生院。优势专业包括：商业、管理、市场营销、教育、社会学、生物和生物医学、心理学。自然科学方面，化学、微生物学和植物学都很突出。学校的商学院，强调跨学科的综合学习和知识的实际运用，注重培养学生的全球性眼光、领导才能和科技应用的能力。 I don't care what it is. I don't care how difficult it is. 我不管你的梦想是什么，我不管它有多难实现。 I was a new mother and a young rabbi in the spring of 2004 and the world was in shambles. Maybe you remember. Every day, we heard devastating reports from the war in Iraq. There were waves of terror rolling across the globe. It seemed like humanity was spinning out of control. I remember the night that I read about the series of coordinated bombings in the subway system in Madrid, and I got up and I walked over to the crib where my six-month-old baby girl lay sleeping sweetly, and I heard the rhythm of her breath, and I felt this sense of urgency coursing through my body. We were living through a time of tectonic shifts in ideologies, in politics, in religion, in populations. Everything felt so precarious. And I remember thinking, "My God, what kind of world did we bring this child into? And what was I as a mother and a religious leader willing to do about it? 01:14 Of course, I knew it was clear that religion would be a principle battlefield in this rapidly changing landscape, and it was already clear that religion was a significant part of the problem. The question for me was, could religion also be part of the solution? Now, throughout history, people have committed horrible crimes and atrocities in the name of religion. And as we entered the 21st century, it was very clear that religious extremism was once again on the rise. Our studies now show that over the course of the past 15, 20 years, hostilities and religion-related violence have been on the increase all over the world. But we don't even need the studies to prove it, because I ask you, how many of us are surprised today when we hear the stories of a bombing or a shooting, when we later find out that the last word that was uttered before the trigger is pulled or the bomb is detonated is the name of God? It barely raises an eyebrow today when we learn that yet another person has decided to show his love of God by taking the lives of God's children. In America, religious extremism looks like a white, antiabortion Christian extremist walking into Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs and murdering three people. It also looks like a couple inspired by the Islamic State walking into an office party in San Bernardino and killing 14. And even when religion-related extremism does not lead to violence, it is still used as a political wedge issue, cynically leading people to justify the subordination of women, the stigmatization of LGBT people, racism, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. This ought to concern deeply those of us who care about the future of religion and the future of faith. We need to call this what it is: a great failure of religion. 03:16 But the thing is, this isn't even the only challenge that religion faces today. At the very same time that we need religion to be a strong force against extremism, it is suffering from a second pernicious trend, what I call religious routine-ism. This is when our institutions and our leaders are stuck in a paradigm that is rote and perfunctory, devoid of life, devoid of vision and devoid of soul. 03:46 Let me explain what I mean like this. One of the great blessings of being a rabbi is standing under the chuppah, under the wedding canopy, with a couple, and helping them proclaim publicly and make holy the love that they found for one another. I want to ask you now, though, to think maybe from your own experience or maybe just imagine it about the difference between the intensity of the experience under the wedding canopy, and maybe the experience of the sixth or seventh anniversary. 04:17 And if you're lucky enough to make it 16 or 17 years, if you're like most people, you probably wake up in the morning realizing that you forgot to make a reservation at your favorite restaurant and you forgot so much as a card, and then you just hope and pray that your partner also forgot. 04:33 Well, religious ritual and rites were essentially designed to serve the function of the anniversary, to be a container in which we would hold on to the remnants of that sacred, revelatory encounter that birthed the religion in the first place. The problem is that after a few centuries, the date remains on the calendar, but the love affair is long dead. That's when we find ourselves in endless, mindless repetitions of words that don't mean anything to us, rising and being seated because someone has asked us to, holding onto jealously guarded doctrine that's completely and wildly out of step with our contemporary reality, engaging in perfunctory practice simply because that's the way things have always been done. 05:21 Religion is waning in the United States. Across the board, churches and synagogues and mosques are all complaining about how hard it is to maintain relevance for a generation of young people who seem completely uninterested, not only in the institutions that stand at the heart of our traditions but even in religion itself. And what they need to understand is that there is today a generation of people who are as disgusted by the violence of religious extremism as they are turned off by the lifelessness of religious routine-ism. 06:02 Of course there is a bright spot to this story. Given the crisis of these two concurrent trends in religious life, about 12 or 13 years ago, I set out to try to determine if there was any way that I could reclaim the heart of my own Jewish tradition, to help make it meaningful and purposeful again in a world on fire. I started to wonder, what if we could harness some of the great minds of our generation and think in a bold and robust and imaginative way again about what the next iteration of religious life would look like? Now, we had no money, no space, no game plan, but we did have email. So my friend Melissa and I sat down and we wrote an email which we sent out to a few friends and colleagues. It basically said this: "Before you bail on religion, why don't we come together this Friday night and see what we might make of our own Jewish inheritance?" 07:01 We hoped maybe 20 people would show up. It turned out 135 people came. They were cynics and seekers, atheists and rabbis. Many people said that night that it was the first time that they had a meaningful religious experience in their entire lives. And so I set out to do the only rational thing that someone would do in such a circumstance: I quit my job and tried to build this audacious dream, a reinvented, rethought religious life which we called "IKAR," which means "the essence" or "the heart of the matter." 07:36 Now, IKAR is not alone out there in the religious landscape today. There are Jewish and Christian and Muslim and Catholic religious leaders, many of them women, by the way, who have set out to reclaim the heart of our traditions, who firmly believe that now is the time for religion to be part of the solution. We are going back into our sacred traditions and recognizing that all of our traditions contain the raw material to justify violence and extremism, and also contain the raw material to justify compassion, coexistence and kindness -- that when others choose to read our texts as directives for hate and vengeance, we can choose to read those same texts as directives for love and for forgiveness. 08:25 I have found now in communities as varied as Jewish indie start-ups on the coasts to a woman's mosque, to black churches in New York and in North Carolina, to a holy bus loaded with nuns that traverses this country with a message of justice and peace, that there is a shared religious ethos that is now emerging in the form of revitalized religion in this country. And while the theologies and the practices vary very much between these independent communities, what we can see are some common, consistent threads between them. 09:03 I'm going to share with you four of those commitments now. 09:07 The first is wakefulness. We live in a time today in which we have unprecedented access to information about every global tragedy that happens on every corner of this Earth. Within 12 hours, 20 million people saw that image of Aylan Kurdi's little body washed up on the Turkish shore. We all saw this picture. We saw this picture of a five-year-old child pulled out of the rubble of his building in Aleppo. And once we see these images, we are called to a certain kind of action. 09:42 My tradition tells a story of a traveler who is walking down a road when he sees a beautiful house on fire, and he says, "How can it be that something so beautiful would burn, and nobody seems to even care?" So too we learn that our world is on fire, and it is our job to keep our hearts and our eyes open, and to recognize that it's our responsibility to help put out the flames. 10:08 This is extremely difficult to do. Psychologists tell us that the more we learn about what's broken in our world, the less likely we are to do anything. It's called psychic numbing. We just shut down at a certain point. Well, somewhere along the way, our religious leaders forgot that it's our job to make people uncomfortable. It's our job to wake people up, to pull them out of their apathy and into the anguish, and to insist that we do what we don't want to do and see what we do not want to see. Because we know that social change only happens -- 10:44 when we are awake enough to see that the house is on fire. 10:49 The second principle is hope, and I want to say this about hope. Hope is not naive, and hope is not an opiate. Hope may be the single greatest act of defiance against a politics of pessimism and against a culture of despair. Because what hope does for us is it lifts us out of the container that holds us and constrains us from the outside, and says, "You can dream and think expansively again. That they cannot control in you." 11:21 I saw hope made manifest in an African-American church in the South Side of Chicago this summer, where I brought my little girl, who is now 13 and a few inches taller than me, to hear my friend Rev. Otis Moss preach. That summer, there had already been 3,000 people shot between January and July in Chicago. We went into that church and heard Rev. Moss preach, and after he did, this choir of gorgeous women, 100 women strong, stood up and began to sing. "I need you. You need me. I love you. I need you to survive." And I realized in that moment that this is what religion is supposed to be about. It's supposed to be about giving people back a sense of purpose, a sense of hope, a sense that they and their dreams fundamentally matter in this world that tells them that they don't matter at all. 12:23 The third principle is the principle of mightiness. There's a rabbinic tradition that we are to walk around with two slips of paper in our pockets. One says, "I am but dust and ashes." It's not all about me. I can't control everything, and I cannot do this on my own. The other slip of paper says, "For my sake the world was created." Which is to say it's true that I can't do everything, but I can surely do something. I can forgive. I can love. I can show up. I can protest. I can be a part of this conversation. We even now have a religious ritual, a posture, that holds the paradox between powerlessness and power. In the Jewish community, the only time of year that we prostrate fully to the ground is during the high holy days. It's a sign of total submission. Now in our community, when we get up off the ground, we stand with our hands raised to the heavens, and we say, "I am strong, I am mighty, and I am worthy. I can't do everything, but I can do something." 13:35 In a world that conspires to make us believe that we are invisible and that we are impotent, religious communities and religious ritual can remind us that for whatever amount of time we have here on this Earth, whatever gifts and blessings we were given, whatever resources we have, we can and we must use them to try to make the world a little bit more just and a little bit more loving. 13:59 The fourth and final is interconnectedness. A few years ago, there was a man walking on the beach in Alaska, when he came across a soccer ball that had some Japanese letters written on it. He took a picture of it and posted it up on social media, and a Japanese teenager contacted him. He had lost everything in the tsunami that devastated his country, but he was able to retrieve that soccer ball after it had floated all the way across the Pacific. How small our world has become. It's so hard for us to remember how interconnected we all are as human beings. And yet, we know that it is systems of oppression that benefit the most from the lie of radical individualism. 14:45 Let me tell you how this works. I'm not supposed to care when black youth are harassed by police, because my white-looking Jewish kids probably won't ever get pulled over for the crime of driving while black. Well, not so, because this is also my problem. And guess what? Transphobia and Islamophobia and racism of all forms, those are also all of our problems. And so too is anti-Semitism all of our problems. Because Emma Lazarus was right. 15:19 Emma Lazarus was right when she said until all of us are free, we are none of us free. We are all in this together. And now somewhere at the intersection of these four trends, of wakefulness and hope and mightiness and interconnectedness, there is a burgeoning, multifaith justice movement in this country that is staking a claim on a countertrend, saying that religion can and must be a force for good in the world. 15:47 Our hearts hurt from the failed religion of extremism, and we deserve more than the failed religion of routine-ism. It is time for religious leaders and religious communities to take the lead in the spiritual and cultural shift that this country and the world so desperately needs -- a shift toward love, toward justice, toward equality and toward dignity for all. I believe that our children deserve no less than that. 16:17 Thank you.

介绍的基本都是私立的精英教育，然后是宗教所创办的大学，其次公立没几个。

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才读了前几章便不想继续读，倒不是说内容有不正确，而是内容简略。像是在读特别简易版的百度百科内容，整理百所学校，从网上摘录些段落内容，就成了一本书。

参观当地大学是旅游时不可缺少的一部分，遗憾未能走遍美国。这本书让我遍览美国名校，简单明了，受益匪浅。

可以收藏，虽然章节安排好像不是按最新排名 一，泛读后可以有针对性的精读 二，英文描述很专业，对巩固词汇量和撰写英文个人简历有帮助

对美国大学略知皮毛了。是一部不错的参考工具书。