新加坡政府帮助越南学生留学斯坦福

 

Singapore Government Helps Vietnamese Student

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新加坡政府帮助越南学生留学斯坦福

 

Viet Minh Huynh is attending Stanford University in California. He tells us how the Singapore government helped him get to the United States.

 

Viet Minh Huynh: As my name says I am from Vietnam and in 1997 Singapore government came over to Vietnam and they sponsored twenty-one scholarships for Vietnamese students as a program to help students in the Aceh South Asia region. So twenty-one students from Vietnam received a scholarship to study in Singapore so after I completed my high school in Singapore I applied¹ to Stanford University and now I am here and Stanford is sponsoring my education and I am having a great time here.

 

Having the freedom to make his own decisions and interacting with other students at Stanford has been a good experience according to Viet.

 

Viet Minh Huynh: When I first came here I was rather apprehensive² because it was the first time I had been in the United States; however the people here are extremely, extremely friendly. They are helpful and kind to me. The second thing is the academic environment.  I came here wanting to be an engineer, however after exploring all the academic opportunities here, I have total freedom to change my major and explore whatever I like. The academic environment is very open, liberal and very flexible. And thirdly last year I was awarded a fellowship to do a public service program in Vietnam. So I just designed my own service program and return to Vietnam.I work with a group of volunteers the United States and from Singapore to do a medical trip in Vietnam and Stanford sponsored me to organize the trip. So overall Stanford is very interesting and very great.

 

Although opportunities for young people in Vietnam needs to improve, Viet says his country has made great economic strides in the past five to ten years. When it comes to Vietnam and the United States diplomacy³, Viet says.

 

Viet Minh Huynh: regarding the relationship between the U-S and Vietnam I definitely see much progress, made in the past few years and recently I met with some people from this new organization called ‘Vietnam Education Foundation. This organization is established by the U-S government. It was an initiative proposed by Bill Clinton and it was signed by Senator John Kerry. So what this program does is provide opportunity for students who graduated from Vietnam University to attend a master or PhD program in the United States. And every year they offer about sixty something to one hundred outstanding students from Vietnam to study in the U-S and after that they are required to return to Vietnam and help the country. And I think this initiative is one of the good examples to show how much the two countries have made in normalizing and improving the relationship between the two and especially Vietnam is trying to get into the World Trade Organization, the W-T-O. And I hope Vietnam will be admitted to the WTO in the next three years and once they are inside the international trade relationship between Vietnam and the United States will be improved and definitely international trade is one important aspect that tie the two countries to get together. So at the moment the two countries is already making good progress, but everything will be much better after Vietnam enters the World Trade Organization.

 

It will be a while before Viet graduates, but he already knows what he wants to do when he finishes Stanford.

 

Viet Minh Huynh: Personally I am still exploring what I am very interested in, but at least I know I want to make some social changes to improve people welfare. So I am interested in poverty, elevation⁴ and create jobs helping⁵ employment in Vietnam. So I am thinking about two careers prospect⁶. One is to go to graduate school and get a PhD in development economic and I hope to work for the World Bank or the U-N or some big institution that can attract investments and help poverty elevation in Vietnam.The second option that I am thinking about I hope to work for some private sector⁷ or set up my own company that help international trade and create jobs in Vietnam. The reason why I hope to do something for Vietnam is because there are so many great and smart people in the U-S and there are many great people too in Vietnam, however I feel more privilege that I received this education at Stanford University and I have an opportunity to expose more to the international environment and I hope to contribute to the country especially to the economy aspect.

 

注释：

sponsor [5spCnsE] vt. 发起

academic [7AkE5demik] adj. 学术的

liberal [5libErEl] adj. 自由的

diplomacy [di5plEumEsi] n. 外交

normalizing [5nC:mElaiziN] n. 正常化

privilege [5privilidV] n. 特权

1 applied   

adj.应用的；v.应用，适用

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。

2 apprehensive   

adj.担心的，恐惧的，善于领会的

参考例句：

• She was deeply apprehensive about her future.她对未来感到非常担心。
• He was rather apprehensive of failure.他相当害怕失败。

3 diplomacy   

n.外交；外交手腕，交际手腕

参考例句：

• The talks have now gone into a stage of quiet diplomacy.会谈现在已经进入了“温和外交”阶段。
• This was done through the skill in diplomacy. 这是通过外交手腕才做到的。

4 elevation   

n.高度；海拔；高地；上升；提高

参考例句：

• The house is at an elevation of 2,000 metres.那幢房子位于海拔两千米的高处。
• His elevation to the position of General Manager was announced yesterday.昨天宣布他晋升总经理职位。

5 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

6 prospect   

n.前景，前途；景色，视野

参考例句：

• This state of things holds out a cheerful prospect.事态呈现出可喜的前景。
• The prospect became more evident.前景变得更加明朗了。

7 sector   

n.部门，部分；防御地段，防区；扇形

参考例句：

• The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
• The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。