由美国华盛顿大学的教授罗伯特·卡罗尔(Robert Carroll)的一项调查显示，结合组织国家(美国除外)的企业税率从上世纪80年代早期的51%降至2009年的32%。
A survey by Robert Carroll of American University in Washington, DC, found that the top rate in OECD countries (excluding America) had dropped from 51% in the early 1980s to 32% by 2009.
然而一个广泛的研究发现在20世纪70年代早期和90年代晚期之间美国大学培养的科学，科技，工程和数学领域的学生远远超过了需求。
Yet an extensive study found that between the early 1970s and late 1990s American colleges produced more than enough graduates in science, technology, engineering and maths to meet demand.
19世纪早期，美国通过发行各种各样的彩票来资助教堂和大学（包括哈佛）的创建，还有那些遍及全国的民用设施建设，其资金来源大部分也是彩票。
Lotteries are used to finance U.S. churches and colleges (including Harvard), along with other civic improvements across the nation.
即使是在上世纪八十年代初的衰退期间，当时美国全国的失业率触及10.8%，具有大学或更高学历背景人群的失业率从未超过3.9%。
Even in the early 1980s recession, when national unemployment hit 10.8%, the rate for people with college degree or higher never eclipsed 3.9%.
二十世纪末，枫华（FungWah）公交公司开始在纽约唐人街和波士顿唐人街之间往返运送大学生和其他经济拮据的美国人，单程票价为10美元。
By the end of the decade, the Fung Wah bus company had begun shuttling college students and other cash-strapped Americans between New York's Chinatown and Boston's for $10 each way.
他于上世纪七十年代在美国密歇根大学取得硕士学位，两个孩子都在美国出生并已经成为美国公民。
He got his master's degree at Michigan State University in the 1970s, and both his children, born in the United States, are American citizens.
耶鲁大学的Robert Shiller指出，按实值计算，美国房价指数由1890年的100点上升到二十世纪末的110点。
Robert Shiller of Yale University has pointed out that, in real terms, an index of American house prices rose from 100 in 1890 to 110 by the end of the 20th century.
在2009年，美国的70%的高中毕业生能够进入大学学习，这样的大学录取率差不多是美国上世纪六十年代的高校录取率的两倍。
In 2009, more than 70 percent of high school graduates enrolled in college - nearly twice as many as in 1960.
自耶鲁大学于1876年率先在美国高校创设中国语文讲座起，到1949年美国高校开展中国知识教育已有半个多世纪。
It had been more than half a century since Yale University beginning holding lectures on Chinese in 1876 to education on Chinese knowledge being on the way in American colleges in 1949.
美国研究型大学的本科生教育重建自世纪之交拉开序幕。
At the turn of the century, American research universities start a new reform movement to reinvent its undergraduate education.
尽管在20世纪90年代中期美国大学有过禁欲的宣誓行为，但在中国是很少见的。
While abstinence pledges have existed in US colleges since the mid-1990s, they're very rare in China.
19世纪后期美国研究型大学初创之后，本科教育便处于较为尴尬的境地。
The undergraduate education had been in an awkward position since the research universities were created in the late 19th century.
以美国为例，上个世纪六十年代美国出现了教育平等运动，鼓励大学将种族作为招生的考量因素之一。
In the us for example, there was an education equality movement in the 1960s that encouraged colleges to use race as a factor in determining admission.
据美国新奥尔良大学的研究显示，早在20世纪三十年代，大学游泳队们就发现了佛罗里达作为热门度假地的潜力。
According to research from the University of New Orleans, college swim teams discovered Florida's vacation potential back in the 1930s.
学分制是19世纪末产生于美国的一种教学制度，在大学实施已有100多年历史。
Credit System is a teaching system which occurred in the USA in the 1980s. It has been mainly carried out in universities for more than 100 years.
学分制是19世纪末产生于美国的一种教学制度，在大学实施已有100多年历史。
Credit System is a teaching system which occurred in the USA in the 1980s. It has been mainly carried out in universities for more than 100 years.
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