2017考研英語拓展閱讀：清華北大首次入圍世界學術百強

考研英語來源：新東方網整理 2016-08-20　

Universities from the Chinese mainland have broken into a global top 100 index in an annual ranking for the first time as Harvard retained its No 1 spot for the 14th consecutive year.

來自中國大陸的大學首次躋身全球大學100強年度排行榜，而哈佛已經連續14年蟬聯榜首。

China’s prestigious Tsinghua University was 58th, beating Peking University in 71st place, in the Academic Ranking of World Universities compiled by the independent Shanghai Ranking Consultancy.

在由獨立的上海軟科教育信息咨詢有限公司(以下簡稱上海軟科)編制的全球大學學術排名中，中國久負盛名的清華大學位列第58名，超過了排在第71名的北京大學。

The National University of Singapore also entered the top 100 for the first time, tying for 83rd.

新加坡國立大學也首次挺進100強，排在第83名。

For the top 10, Stanford maintained second place but MIT dropped from third to fifth, with the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Cambridge each moving up one spot to take third and fourth.

排名前10的大學中，斯坦福大學仍維持在第二名，但麻省理工學院由第三名降至第五名。加州大學伯克利分校和劍橋大學各上升一個名次，分別位列第三和第四。

The Shanghai Ranking is consistently largely static at its top levels, and this year nine of the top 20 were in unchanged positions, and another nine moved by only one place.

在該排行榜中名列前茅的大學向來變動不大。今年，前20所高校中有9所保持原有名次不變，另外9所大學只變動了一個名次。

The biggest change was by Britain’s Oxford University, which climbed three spots from 10th to seventh.

變動最大的是英國的牛津大學，其上升了三個名次，由第10名升至第7名。

Princeton University was sixth again, with another three US institutions – the California Institute of Technology, Columbia University and the University of Chicago in places eight to 10.

普林斯頓大學依然是第六名，另有三所美國高校——加州理工學院、哥倫比亞大學和芝加哥大學占據榜單的第8至第10名。

The ranking, which was launched in 2003, has generated controversy in the past for stressing science over the humanities in its grading.

該排行榜自2003年開始發布，過去曾因在評定排名方面重理輕文而引發爭議。

According to the consultancy’s statement the rankings were made using “objective indicators” including the number of staff and alumni winning Nobel prizes and Fields medals, and articles published in the journals of “Nature” and “Science”, according to a statement.

根據上海軟科的聲明，該排名是參照“客觀指標”做出的，具體指標包括獲得諾貝爾獎和菲爾茲獎的校友和教師人數以及發表在《自然》和《科學》期刊上的文章數量。

In the Asia-Pacific region, the University of Tokyo was top at number 20 overall.

在亞太地區，東京大學排名第一，在整個排行榜中位列第20名。

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich was the highest-ranked entry from continental Europe, in 19th place, while the University of Copenhagen in Denmark – which came 31st – overtook France’s Pierre and Marie Curie University (39th) as mainland Europe’s next best, the statement said.

聲明稱，蘇黎世聯邦理工學院在歐洲大陸名列前茅，排在第19名，而丹麥的哥本哈根大學——排在第31名——取代了法國的巴黎第六大學(第39名)，在歐洲大陸排名第二。