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什么叫做野鸡大学? not wild chicken, 指的是自己印刷文凭但不被官方承认的大学! 英文叫做 diploma mill 或者 degree mill 。 diploma /di'pləumə/是“文凭、证书”; degree /di'ɡri:/是“学位”; mill 在这里表示“大规模制造某种产品的工厂”,也比喻“如工厂般制造产品的机构”。如:The college was nothing more than a diploma mill. diploma mill在词典中的释义是: a usually unregulated institution of higher education granting degrees with few or no academic requirements 即一种通常不受监管的高等教育机构,授予很少或没有学术要求的学校。 例句: Neither did Tang’s purported PhD from the California Institute of Technology. His degree was from an unaccredited “diploma mill” called Pacific Western University. 不久,人们甚至发现他自称获得加州理工学院的博士学位也是捏造的,而真实学位却由一所未经授权的“文凭工厂”西
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