en-us	Western Universities Rely on China. After the Virus, That May Not Last. 
zh-cn	新冠疫情正在使西方大学失去中国学生？ 

en-us	LONDON — On Jiani Zhou’s university campus in southwestern England, the racism arrived before the coronavirus did. 
zh-cn	伦敦——在英格兰西南部，周佳妮（音）的大学校园里，种族主义比冠状病毒来得更早。 

en-us	One girl headed for the stairs as soon as Ms. Zhou stepped up to a dormitory elevator bank in late January. 
zh-cn	1月下旬，周佳妮一走进宿舍的电梯间，就有一个女孩朝楼梯走去。 

en-us	When two construction workers saw a poster of Asian candidates in the student union election, they muttered, “Vote corona.” 
zh-cn	两个建筑工人看到学生会选举中亚裔候选人的海报，低声嘟囔着说：“投新冠一票。” 

en-us	But now that the virus has firmly taken hold in Britain, outmuscling the low-key measures taken by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Chinese students are fretting for a different reason: 
zh-cn	但现在，病毒已经在英国扎下了根，英国首相鲍里斯·约翰逊(Boris Johnson)采取的低调措施远远不够，中国学生又有了新的担忧： 

en-us	“People here haven’t realized how serious this is,” Ms. Zhou said. 
zh-cn	“这里的人还没有意识到问题有多严重，”周佳妮说。 

en-us	“Over in China, there were a lot of control mechanisms in place, but not here yet.” 
zh-cn	“在中国有很多防控机制，但这里还没有。” 

en-us	That wariness toward the way British universities have handled the outbreak could soon have huge financial implications. 
zh-cn	这种对英国大学处理疫情方式的警惕，可能很快会产生巨大的财务影响。 

en-us	Universities in English-speaking countries, especially Britain, Australia and the United States, have grown increasingly dependent on tuition from Chinese students, a business model that the virus could dismantle. 
zh-cn	英语国家的大学越来越依赖中国学生的学费，尤其是英国、澳大利亚和美国的大学，这种商业模式可能会被病毒摧毁。 

en-us	With qualifying exams postponed, travel bans spreading and anger rising among Chinese students and parents at the West’s permissive attitude toward public health, enrollment could plummet in the coming years, experts said, potentially leaving countries with multibillion- dollar holes in their universities’ budgets. 
zh-cn	专家说，由于资格考试推迟、旅行禁令蔓延、中国学生和家长对西方国家在公共卫生上的放任态度越来越愤怒，未来几年中国学生的入学率可能会大幅下降，这可能会让一些国家的大学预算出现数十亿美元的缺口。 

en-us	Already, analysts are talking about the prospect of government bailouts of higher education if Chinese students stay home, starving universities of the often-exorbitant overseas tuition fees that keep their less-profitable departments afloat. 
zh-cn	许多大学通常依靠往往很高昂的海外学费，让盈利能力不足的院系得以维持，分析人士已在讨论，如果中国学生留在本国，让这些大学得不到收入，政府有可能需要对高等教育实施财政救助。 

en-us	“In quite a short period of time, we have become sort of addicted to one source of income,” said Kerry Brown, a professor of Chinese studies at King’s College London. 
zh-cn	“在相当短的时间内，我们已经对一种收入来源上瘾了，”伦敦国王学院(King’s College London)中国研究教授克里·布朗(Kerry Brown)表示。 

en-us	“If the worst case happens and Chinese students don’t want to come here in September, it’s potentially a kind of seismic change.” 
zh-cn	“如果最坏的情况发生，中国学生不想在9月份来这里，这可能是一种巨大的变化。” 

en-us	In Britain, some Chinese students are fuming that universities did not act more decisively to move classes online and scrap major events like spring balls. 
zh-cn	在英国，一些中国学生对大学没有更果断地实施网上授课并取消春季舞会等重大活动感到愤怒。 

en-us	In interviews, they said they were weighing the health benefits of wearing a surgical mask with their fear of being racially abused or even attacked, as a student from Singapore was last month in London. 
zh-cn	在采访中，他们说一方面戴口罩对健康有好处，另一方面又担心会受到种族歧视甚至攻击，比如上月一名新加坡学生在伦敦就有这样的遭遇，他们正在两者间做权衡。 

en-us	Now that China has seemingly corralled its outbreak, some students are even swallowing the cost of expensive plane tickets and rushing home. 
zh-cn	现在中国似乎已经控制住了疫情，一些学生甚至购买昂贵的机票赶回家。 

en-us	In Australia, where the academic year began around the end of February, an entry ban on anyone who had recently been in China stranded tens of thousands of Chinese students at home. 
zh-cn	在澳大利亚，新学年大约在2月底开始，一项针对近期去过中国的人的入境禁令将数万名中国学生困在家里。 

en-us	The outbreak has grown enough in Australia, though, that analysts fear the next travel ban will be imposed by the Chinese, with the government potentially asking students not to travel to virus-prone countries for schooling. 
zh-cn	不过，此次疫情在澳大利亚已经蔓延到一定程度，分析人士担心，下一轮旅行禁令将由中国实施，政府可能会要求学生不要前往易受病毒感染的国家上学。 

en-us	And in the United States, swift shutdowns left international students without any help as they packed up and tried to find affordable flights home. 
zh-cn	而在美国，学校迅速关闭，国际学生在收拾行装、试图找到买得起的机票回家时得不到任何帮助。 

en-us	Taken together, those slights and miscalculations have dented the reputation of overseas universities in China, analysts said. 
zh-cn	分析人士说，这些怠慢和误判加在一起，损害了海外大学在中国的声誉。 

en-us	American universities were already hurt by trade tensions between Washington and Beijing and new visa restrictions on Chinese graduates. 
zh-cn	华盛顿和北京之间的贸易紧张关系以及针对中国毕业生的新签证限制已对美国大学造成了伤害。 

en-us	And British universities, too, are dealing with uncertainty over European Union research money and student-exchange programs after Brexit. 
zh-cn	英国大学也在应对脱欧后欧盟研究经费和学生交流项目的不确定性。 

en-us	University administrators are bracing for parents already wary of the risks of global travel in the age of the virus to decide it is no longer worth shelling out tens of thousands of dollars for an overseas degree. 
zh-cn	在这个病毒肆虐的时代，家长们已经对全球旅行的风险产生了警惕，可能会觉得花费数万美元去海外攻读学位不再值得，大学管理者们正在为此做准备。 

en-us	“I think this is going to exacerbate the sense that has been growing for years that the U.K., and to a lesser extent the U.S., are not great destinations for international students, especially Chinese students,” said Craig Calhoun, a professor of social sciences at Arizona State University and a former director of the London School of Economics and Political Science. 
zh-cn	“我认为这将加剧一种多年来一直增长的感觉： 对于国际学生，尤其是中国学生来说，英国不是好地方，美国也有点糟糕，”亚利桑那州立大学(Arizona State University)社会科学教授、伦敦政治经济学院(London School of Economics and Political Science)前院长克雷格·卡尔霍恩(Craig Calhoun)说。

en-us	“Applications and acceptances could go down precipitously, and I think very few U.K. universities have planned for that.” 
zh-cn	“申请和录取人数可能会急剧下降，我认为英国很少有大学为此做过打算。” 

en-us	In Britain, universities began chasing after Chinese students amid declining government funding, combined with a move by Indian students to enroll in American schools instead. 
zh-cn	在英国，由于政府资金减少，加上印度学生转而进入美国学校，大学开始努力招募中国学生。 

en-us	Last year, more than 120,000 Chinese students enrolled in Britain, with some major universities’ student bodies now a fifth Chinese. 
zh-cn	去年，超过12万名中国学生在英国注册，一些主要大学的学生人数中中国学生的总数现在占五分之一。 

en-us	Conservative estimates put their combined fees at about 1.5 billion pounds, about $1.75 billion. 
zh-cn	保守估计，中国学生的总学费约为15亿英镑，约合105亿元人民币。 

en-us	Many enroll in postgraduate business and finance programs that are the universities’ biggest moneymakers. 
zh-cn	许多人选择商业和金融的研究生课程，这是大学最大的摇钱树。 

en-us	“If enrollment falls by a quarter, that’s a huge amount of money and, for some universities, the difference between bankruptcy and staying afloat,” Professor Brown said. 
zh-cn	“如果入学率下降四分之一，那会是一大笔钱，对一些大学来说，这足以决定破产还是维生，”布朗说。 

en-us	Almost 400,000 Chinese students were studying in American universities last year. 
zh-cn	去年大约有40万中国学生在美国大学学习。 

en-us	Australia has become even more reliant on Chinese recruitment: With 200,000 Chinese students, it stood to lose about $4 billion, by some estimates, had the coronavirus-related travel ban kept them from attending the first term. 
zh-cn	澳大利亚甚至更依赖中国招生，它拥有20万名中国学生，有人估计，如果与冠状病毒相关的旅行禁令让他们错过第一学期，澳大利亚将损失约40亿美元。 

en-us	“In Australia and New Zealand, the approach has been to treat international students as cash cows, and as a result the shortcomings in their systems are really coming to the surface,” said Salvatore Babones, an associate professor at the University of Sydney and an adjunct scholar at the Center for Independent Studies. 
zh-cn	“在澳大利亚和新西兰，国际学生被当做摇钱树对待，结果他们系统的缺陷真正浮出了水面，”悉尼大学(University of Sydney)助理教授、独立研究中心(Center for Independent Studies)的兼职学者萨尔瓦托·巴博内斯(Salvatore Babones)表示。 

en-us	“We’re essentially just running an offshore university experience at the master’s level.” 
zh-cn	“我们实际上只是在提供一种硕士水平的离岸大学体验。” 

en-us	China, desperate to fill universities hollowed out under the one-child policy, has lately improved the quality of its own higher education system, tempting some students to stay home. 
zh-cn	中国迫切希望解决独生子女政策导致的生源匮乏，近年来提升了其高等教育系统的质量，想要留住一些学生。 

en-us	British university administrators now fear that those changes, combined with China’s success in battling the coronavirus, could make the case for an overseas education more difficult. 
zh-cn	英国大学的管理者现在担心，这些变化，加上中国在与抗击冠状病毒疫情上的成功，可能会更加促使人们不愿意去海外上学。 

en-us	Zhexuan Lu, a second-year student in sports management at the University of Bath, said he was surprised to find the British government ignoring the virus when the spring term started in January. 
zh-cn	巴斯大学(University of Bath)体育管理专业二年级学生卢哲轩（音）说，他惊讶地发现，英国政府在今年1月春季开学时无视这种病毒。 

en-us	Few countries have since charted such a different course from China than Britain, which initially hesitated to shut restaurants and pubs. 
zh-cn	此后，很少有国家能像英国那样选择与中国截然不同的道路。 英国最初不愿关闭餐馆和酒吧。

en-us	China, by contrast, has reported reducing its new local cases to zero by heavily curtailing people’s movements. 
zh-cn	相比之下，根据中国的报告，通过大幅度减少人们的活动，本地新增病例已降至零。 

en-us	As the president of the Bath Chinese Students and Scholars Association, Mr. Lu sent a letter to the university’s vice chancellor asking for more lectures and course notes to be made available online. 
zh-cn	作为巴斯中国学生学者联谊会(Bath Chinese Students and Scholars Association)的主席，卢哲轩致函大学副校长，要求将更多讲座和课程笔记放到网上。 

en-us	But he said the university was reluctant to do more until there was a confirmed case of the virus on campus. 
zh-cn	但是他说，在校园里确诊有这种病毒病例之前，大学不愿做更多的事情。 

en-us	“Nobody worried about it except Chinese students, because Chinese students know what happened and what helped in our home country,” Mr. Lu said. 
zh-cn	卢哲轩说：“除了中国学生以外，没有人担心这件事，因为中国学生知道发生了什么以及在国内怎么做是有帮助的。” 

en-us	Nevertheless, Mr. Lu said that younger Chinese students applying to British universities would not be deterred by the way Britain responded to the coronavirus, saying the virus would pass. 
zh-cn	然而卢哲轩说，尽管英国用这样的方式应对，今后的中国学生并不会因此而不愿申请英国学校，他说病毒会过去。 

en-us	Should it remain a threat for longer, though, Professor Babones said, there was a risk that China would reciprocate other countries’ travel bans by considering asking its students not to go abroad for their studies, fearing that they would bring the virus back from a country where it was more rampant. 
zh-cn	巴博内斯说，如果威胁持续更长的时间，中国有可能会顺应其他国家的旅行禁令，考虑要求其学生不要出国学习，担心他们会把这种病毒从疫情更加严重的国家带回来。 

en-us	“It’d be a big propaganda win,” he said. 
zh-cn	“这将是一次巨大的宣传胜利，”他说。 

en-us	“You kept our students out? 
zh-cn	“你不让我们的学生进去？ 

en-us	Now we’re pulling them out.” 
zh-cn	现在我们把他们接回来。” 

en-us	Some British universities are considering offering preterm English courses online and allowing Chinese students to delay their enrollments until January next year. 
zh-cn	一些英国大学正在考虑在网上提供学期前的英语课程，并允许中国学生将入学时间推迟到明年1月。 

en-us	Some have also tried to diversify their international student body in recent years, though analysts warned that was unlikely to compensate for any financial losses from China. 
zh-cn	近年来，有些人还试图使他们的国际学生群体多样化，尽管分析人士警告说，这不太可能弥补中国学生流失所造成的经济损失。 

en-us	While Britain’s departure from the European Union will pile pressure on its universities, the government has said it will extend the visas of international students as a way of persuading them to stay. 
zh-cn	尽管英国脱欧将给其大学带来压力，但政府表示将延长国际学生的签证，以说服他们留下。 

en-us	In some ways, British universities’ response to the virus reflects the muddled messages coming from the prime minister’s office, which has been reluctant to impose any mandates and slow to discourage large gatherings. 
zh-cn	在某些方面，英国大学对病毒的反应，体现了首相办公室的含糊其辞，它一直不愿下达任何强制命令，迟迟没有劝阻大规模的人群聚集。 

en-us	In one email that upset students at the University of Cambridge, administrators insisted that the business school would hold exams last week in rooms of up to 40 people, despite students’ fear of the crowds. 
zh-cn	在一封令剑桥大学(University of Cambridge)学生感到不安的电子邮件中，校方坚称，尽管学生们担心人群拥挤，但商学院仍将在上周在多达40人的房间内举行考试。 

en-us	The university said it and its colleges were “doing all in their power to prepare students and staff for unforeseeable circumstances.” 
zh-cn	校方以及下属学院“正在竭尽全力为学生和教职员工做好准备，应对不可预见的情况”。 

en-us	For Ms. Zhou, the postgraduate officer in the student union at the University of Bath, being in Britain during the time of the virus meant fielding worried phone calls from her mother. 
zh-cn	对身为英国巴斯大学学生会研究生负责人的周佳妮来说，在病毒感染期间留在英国意味着要应付母亲打来的焦虑的电话。 

en-us	It has also meant trying to adjust to the more relaxed views of others, like a man to whom she tried to sell a concert ticket after she decided the virus made it too dangerous to go. 
zh-cn	这也意味着要尝试适应其他人较为松懈的观点，例如，在她决定认为病毒使演唱会变得太过危险而不能前往后，她试图将门票卖给一名男子。 

en-us	“He was, like, ‘It’s just the media going crazy,’” Ms. Zhou said. 
zh-cn	“他觉得‘只是媒体抽风罢了’，”周佳妮说。 

en-us	“He encouraged me to go and have a fantastic time.”
zh-cn	“他鼓励我去，并享受美好时光。”