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British universities are growing even moredependent on international students from China, according to a report.
一份報告指出，英國高校越來越依賴來自中國的留學生。
The Times Higher Education Supplement highlightedthe latest UK government immigration statistics andfound that the number of study visas granted tostudents from the Chinese mainland rose 10% to 77,290 in the year to March 2017.
《泰晤士報高等教育增刊》在着重研究英國政府最新的移民統計數據後發現，在截至2017年3月的一年中，發放給中國內地學生的留學簽證的數量增加了10%，達77290個。
That represented a 37% of all study visas granted to students from outside the European Unionover the period.
這一數字佔據這一時期內英國給歐盟以外地區學生髮放的全部留學簽證的37%。
This is a major change compared with about 10 years ago when India was the dominantsource of non-EU students.
這與約10年前相比發生了重大變化，那時印度是在英國就讀的非歐盟學生的主要來源國。
The US came in second in the year to March 2017 on study visas granted with almost 14,300, while India was third with just above 11,600.
在截至2017年3月的一年裏，美國以近1.43萬人獲得留學簽證位居第二，而印度則以略多於1.16萬人獲留學簽證位居第三。
UK Home Office visa data which showed that over the past few years around 49% of visaapplicants come from East Asia.
英國內政部的簽證數據顯示，在過去幾年裏，約49%的簽證申請者來自東亞。
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At least 10 students lost their chance to attendHarvard College after posting "obscene memes" to aprivate Facebook chat, the main Harvard studentnewspaper reported.
據哈佛大學校報報道，至少10名學生因在臉書私聊小組中發佈“猥瑣表情”而失去哈佛大學的入學資格。
The memes included jokes about pedophilia, childabuse, sexual assault, and the Holocaust.
這些表情包惡搞的話題涉及戀童癖、虐待兒童、性侵害以及納粹大屠殺。
The memes were shared as part of a privateFacebook chat where admitted students in the class of 2021 shared edgy jokes as part of a "just-because-we-got-into-Harvard-doesn't-mean-we-can't-have-fun kind of thing", an admittedstudent told the Harvard Crimson.
一位被錄取的學生告訴《哈佛深紅報》，這些表情包來自哈佛2021屆學生的臉書私聊小組，他們在這個羣組裏分享一些尖酸刻薄的笑話，“被哈佛錄取不代表我們就不能開玩笑”。
The paper quoted a number of students from the incoming class, who had a range ofresponses, including two who said it was the right approach to withdraw the offers. "I do notknow how those offensive images could be defended," one student said.
新生們對此事各持己見，《哈佛深紅報》報道了一些學生的觀點。其中有兩位新生稱取消這些人的入學資格是正確的。一名學生表示，“我不知道他們對這些冒犯無禮的圖片有什麼可辯解的”。
At least two Harvard professors, however, questioned the decision to withdraw the offers. Alan Dershowitz, an emeritus professor at Harvard Law School, told the Guardian that losingadmission to Harvard was a "draconian punishment" for "very bad taste jokes that studentswere sending to each other".
然而，至少有兩名哈佛教授對取消入學資格的做法表示質疑。哈佛大學法學院榮譽教授艾倫?德肖維茨告訴《衛報》，學生們因互相之間“開非常惡劣的玩笑”而失去哈佛的入學資格，這樣的“懲罰太苛刻”。
"It sounds like Harvard is intruding too deeply into the private lives of students," saidDershowitz, who has represented a series of high-profile clients, including OJ Simpson.
“聽起來，哈佛對學生的私生活管得太寬了”，曾爲OJ?辛普森等多位名人做過代理律師的德肖維茨說。
"It may affect them for life," Dershowitz said.
“這可能影響他們一生。”
Harvey C Mansfield, one of Harvard's most outspoken conservative professors and the authorof a book called Manliness, also told the Guardian he questioned the decision. "The bounds ofwhat is offensive have been extended and distorted, and I no longer trust the bentjudgment of politically correct enforcers."
哈維?C?曼斯菲爾德是哈佛大學最直言不諱的保守派教授，他也是《剛毅》一書的作者。曼斯菲爾德告訴《衛報》，他對這個決定存有質疑。“人們對無禮冒犯的界定已經被放大歪曲，我不再相信那些堅持政治正確的執法者做出的不公判決。”
A spokeswoman for Harvard University declined to comment on the report. "We do notcomment publicly on the admissions status of individual applicants," Rachael Dane wrote in anemail.
哈佛大學發言人瑞秋?戴恩拒絕對該新聞發表評論。她在郵件中寫道：“我們對於個別申請人的錄取情況不予置評”。
The official Facebook page for students admitted to join the Harvard Class of 2021 warnsstudents that "Harvard College reserves the right to withdraw an offer of admission undervarious conditions including if an admitted student engages in behavior that brings intoquestion his or her honesty, maturity, or moral character".
2021屆哈佛待入學新生的臉書官方主頁提醒學生，“如果新生在誠信、成熟度或道德品質方面存在問題，那麼校方保留針對惡劣情況取消學生入學資格的權利。
Dershowitz said this guidance was too vague to provide students with any real understandingof the school's expectations. "When you punish a student seriously without articulatingstandards, I think it raises questions," he said.
德肖維茨稱，這個說法太模糊了，學校沒有提出任何具體的要求。“當學校嚴肅處理學生時，卻不說明他們的判斷標準，我認爲這是有問題的。”
“These students have absolutely no free speech rights that were violated in this context."
“在這種情況下，這些學生的言論自由權利根本沒有被侵犯。”
“The First Amendment’s Free Speech protections apply only to violations by public entities, andsince Harvard is a private university the First Amendment does not apply,” she said.
她表示：“美國憲法第一修正案中對於言論自由的保護僅針對公共實體的違法情況，而哈佛是所私立大學，所以第一修正案根本不適用。”
"The Constitution really doesn't apply here. The Constitution limits how much government cansuppress speech, not a private university," she said.
“此種情形中，憲法還真不適用。憲法限制了政府對言論的壓制，但不限制私立學校。”
Meme-sharing Facebook groups have become a new college tradition, Mic reported last week, with students across the country trading inside jokes and fighting battles with rival universitiesvia screenshot and caption.
據Mic上週報道，臉書表情包分享羣組已經成爲一個新興的大學傳統，全國各地的學生們用截圖和配字互開玩笑，與對手學校互懟。
The names of some of these public Facebook groups, Mic reported, were "Harvard Memes forElitist 1% Tweens", "UCLA Memes for Sick AF Tweens" and "USC Memes for Spoiled Pre-Teens".
報道稱，這些公共臉書羣組的名字包括，“哈佛前1%精英少年表情包羣”、“UCLA超變態青少年表情包羣”、“USC被寵壞的小少年表情包羣”等。
The private Facebook group chat that led to offers of admission being rescinded was named, atone point, "Harvard memes for horny bourgeois teens", the Crimson reported.
《深紅報》稱，此次被取消入學資格的學生所在的私人臉書羣組名爲“哈佛飢渴猥瑣資產階級少年”。
