Humanities degrees: ave atque vale

學科相關：

1. （the) humanities 人文學科 = （the）arts 人文學科
2. course = course of study 專業(yè) eg. nix its English literature course 取消英語文學專業(yè)
3. programme 也可以指專業(yè)
4. top-up 追加的錢款 eg. (未達到所需水平而追加的錢款） government top-up funding, subsidy top up sth 補足，充值
5. high needs schools/ students 教學條件低下的學校和極度需要幫助的學生
6. STEM courses 理科
7. Vocational 職業(yè)技術的 vocational education/ school 職業(yè)培訓/職業(yè)學校
8. graduate job = a job that require someone to hold a degree to start their career in that profession or industry.
9. enter professtional employment or further study

Collocation and Vocabulary

1. as/ more often than not 通常
2. get a bigger bang for your buck 從自己的付出中得到匯報
3. fall out of favour 失寵 eg. Humanities degrees are falling out of favour in the Uk.
4. spark = trigger 引發(fā)，出發(fā)
5. backlash n 強烈抵制 backlsh against sth from sb. 有誰發(fā)起的抵制 eg. sparking an immediate backlash from writers and others in the arets world.
6. ill-advised adj 不明智的，eg. It also seems financially ill advised.
7. flat 如果形容費用的話是固定的意思 eg. Fess for most British undergraduates are a flat $9250.
8. break-even 收支相抵 eg. We're hoping that we'll at least break even, and perhps make a small profit. 我們希望至少收支平衡，或許還能略有盈利。
9. state of the art 最先進的 eg. state of the art computing power.
10. discrepancy = difference 差異
11. bridge vt 彌合 bridge the gap or bridge the shortfall 彌補缺口
12. pronounced adj 顯著的
13. treacherous adj 變化無常的
14. be at pains to do sth 小心翼翼地做某事
15. Judged returns on investment 根據(jù)投資回報判斷
16. attainment n 達到，成就 (可數(shù)） eg. a low level of educational attainment 教育程度低
17. end up doing sth 最終處于
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Nice sentence：

1. More often than not, arts graduates get less bang for their buck than their more scientifically minded peers. 人文學科學生得到回報不如理工科高。The average physics graduate earns almost a quarter more than one brandishing 激動揮舞著an English degree.
2. Degrees in subjects such as politics are cheaper to provide than those involving fully furnished labs or state of the art computing power.
3. Government top-up funding reflects the discrepancy.
4. Most humanities, alongside law, break even on the average student. In the treacherous world of higher education, that counts as a good outcome. 在這個變化無常的高等教育學科中，文科專業(yè)收支相抵也算是一個不錯的結果了。
5. While the university is at pains to point out that its move is not an attack on humanities, market forces are clearly afoot（正在進行）.
6. The initial cost to the state is smaller but humanities graduates who end up in low paid jobs contribute less in tax over the longer term.
7. Readers should hold on to those arts degrees. They could one day become a collector's item. 讀者們要好好抓住文科專業(yè)的學歷，很有可能有一天他們就變成了沒有價值的東西了。

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