双语资讯：清华大学与华盛顿大学在西雅图合作办学.docx

SEATTLE — With hometown companies like Amazon and Microsoft, this bustling region on the Puget Sound easily ranks in the top tier of technology hubs in the United States. 西雅图——作为亚马逊(Amazon)和微软(Microsoft)等公司的家乡，位于普及湾(Puget Sound)的这个繁荣区域，可以轻松跻身美国一流科技中心之列。But the area lags its peers in one glaring way: It is home to a single major research university, the University of Washington, while nearly every other big technology scene in the country has at least two. 但与美国其他大型科技中心相比，它有一个明显的薄弱环节：这里只有一所重要的研究型大学，即华盛顿大学(University of Washington)，而其他中心至少有两所这种档次的大学。For years, that weakness has stoked local unease about whether the gap between the supply of people with computer-related degrees and the surge in demand for those skills could impede the region’s economy. “We’ve long realized we’re at a relative competitive disadvantage when it comes to higher education,” said Bradford L. Smith, Microsoft’s general counsel. 多年来，这个薄弱环节令当地人感到不安，因为这里对计算机相关人才的需求激增，而对人才的培养却不足，其差距有可能会阻碍该地区的经济发展。“我们早就意识到，在高等教育方面，我们相对处在劣势，”微软总法律顾问布拉德福德·L·史密斯(Bradford L. Smith)说。On Thursday, Seattle’s top academic and business leaders unveiled a plan to create a new institute of learning, with the goal of strengthening the educational foundation of the region’s high-tech economy. The institute, the Global Innovation Exchange, is a partnership between the University of Washington and one of China’s leading research universities, Tsinghua University. It will open in fall 2016 with a master’s degree program in technology innovation. 本周四，西雅图学术界和商业界的领袖，公布了建立一所新高校的计划，目的是加强该地区高科技经济的教育基础。这所机构名为全球创新学院(Global Innovation Exchange)，是华盛顿大学和中国一流的研究型院校清华大学合作成立的，将在2016年秋季开学，开设技术创新相关的硕士学位课程。Microsoft will contribute $40 million to help the institute get started. Some of the money will go toward creating a base for the institute in a large new urban development project in Bellevue, Wash., about 10 miles from the University of Washington’s main campus. Faculty for the school will come from the University of Washington, Tsinghua and,