考研英語時文賞讀（127）：高校天價宿舍引爭議

　　Private dormitory for students in eye of storm over annual charge

　　學生宿舍因年費用陷入風波

　　Pengyuan Apartment, a dormitory for students of a university’s branch in Qinhuangdao city, North China’s Hebei province, has caught the public attention in past two days for charging high accommodation fees from students, a report by Hongxing News said on Monday.

　　據《紅星新聞》周一報道，在過去兩天里，位于中國北部河北省秦皇島市的一所高校的鵬遠學生公寓因向學生收取高額住宿費而引起了公眾的關注。

　　The apartment, run by a company, charges each student 16,640 yuan ($2,324) per year for a shared room which can accommodate two students of Northeastern University at Qinhuangdao, the report said.

　　報道稱，該公寓是由一家公司運營的，每個房間是可以容納兩名東北大學秦皇島分校學生居住的合住房間，每位學生每年的住宿費為16640元（約合2324美元）。

　　Hongxing News reported that dormitories at the university campus do not have sufficient space for students, forcing some to live in the Pengyuan Apartment.

　　據《紅星新聞》報道稱，由于該大學沒有足夠的宿舍容納所有學生，因此一些學生被迫住在鵬遠公寓。

　　But its price is high enough to rent a house of more than 100 square meters with three bedrooms near the campus, the Finance and Economics website reported.

　　但據財經網站的報道稱，其價格高到足以在校園附近租一套面積超過100平方米、有三間臥室的房子。

　　The upper limit of school’s dormitory accommodation charges must be under 1,200 yuan per year, according to relevant regulations of Hebei Bureau of Commodity Price.

　　根據河北省物價局的相關規(guī)定，學校宿舍住宿費的最高收費標準不得超過每年1200元。

　　A platform of Pengyuan Apartment showed the exceeding part – 15,440 yuan – is for other services, including facilities, room services and water fees.

　　鵬遠公寓的網站平臺顯示，住宿費用中超出的部分（15440元）是包括設施、客房服務和水費在內的其他服務費。

　　Qinhuangdao Pengyuan College Logistics Service Co, which runs the dormitory, has raised the dormitory price several times in the past years.

　　該宿舍由秦皇島鵬遠高校后勤服務有限公司經營管理，在過去幾年里，該公司已多次提高了宿舍的住宿價格。

　　Students who refused to pay the extra charge were threatened with eviction or warned they will not be allowed to use electricity.

　　拒絕支付額外費用的學生還受到了被趕出宿舍的威脅，或被警告將停止供電。

　　(全文共225個詞，China Daily)

　　重難點詞匯：

　　branch  n. 分支；分公司；分部；樹枝；支流；岔路 v. 發(fā)出新枝；岔開，分岔；出現(xiàn)分歧

　　accommodation  n. 住處，膳宿；調節(jié)；和解；預訂鋪位

　　eviction  n. 逐出；趕出；收回

 

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