Harvard University
哈佛大学
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established originally by the Massachusetts legislature and soon thereafter named for John Harvard (its first benefactor), Harvard is the United States' oldest institution of higher learning, and the Harvard Corporation is its first chartered corporation. Harvard has been highly ranked by many international and domestic university rankings. From a poll done by The Princeton Review , Harvard is the second most commonly named “Dream College”, both for students and parents in 2013, and was the first nominated by parents in 2009.
哈佛大学是位于美国马萨诸塞州坎布里奇的一所私立研究型大学，也是常春藤盟校之一，最初经马萨诸塞州的立法机关批准建立，之后不久以约翰·哈佛(它的第一位赞助者)的名字命名。哈佛大学是美国最古老的高等学校，哈佛集团是它的第一任特许法人。哈佛大学在许多国际和国内大学排名中位列前茅。据《普林斯顿评论》的一项民意调查显示，哈佛大学在2009年被家长提名第二大“梦想的大学”，而且这一称号在2013年获得学生和家长的一致公认。
The University is organized into eleven separate academic units — ten faculties and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study — with campuses throughout the Boston metropolitan area. Harvard has the largest financial endowment of any academic institution in the world, standing at $32.3 billion as of June 2013.
哈佛大学分为11个独立的学术单位——10个学院加上德克利夫高级研究院。校园穿过波士顿市区。哈佛大学获得的财政资助是世界学术机构中最多的，2013年6月达到323亿。
It has many eminent alumni. Eight U. S. presidents and several foreign heads of state have been graduates. It is also the alma mater of 62 living billionaires and 335 Rhodes Scholars, the most in the country. By 2013, more than 150 Nobel laureates have been affiliated as students, faculty, or staff.
哈佛大学有许多杰出校友，其中有8位美国总统和多位外国国家元首在此毕业，还有62个在世的亿万富翁和335个罗兹学术奖得主，是整个国家中最多的。到2013年为止，哈佛的学生、教职员工或雇员中已有150多位诺贝尔奖得主。
