VOA标准英语2011--Ethics Get Workout in College Bowl Game（在线收听）

Ethics Get Workout in College Bowl Game

美国大学橄榄球比赛重视道德培养

College football teams are preparing for postseason play in events such as the venerable Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, and Orange Bowl.

大学足球队正在为季后赛的玫瑰杯赛事,糖果杯赛事及橘子杯赛事等庄严的各种赛事积极备战。

And the not-so-venerable Beef O’Brady’s Bowl, San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl, and the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl. Yes, those are real college football games.

还有不是很知名的像Beef O'Brady's Bowl, San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl, and the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl这样的赛事。是的,那些是真正的大学橄榄球比赛。

But they are not the only bowl competitions underway.Preliminary matches are in full swing for the next annual Ethics Bowl.

但这些并不是唯一的在进行中的超级赛事。各种初级赛事也为下一年度的Ethics Bowl（伦理杯）如火如荼的进行中。

Thirty-two university teams, whose members wear dresses or suits and ties, not helmets and cleats, will face off until one winner is declared at the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl, to be held next March at the annual meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics.

三十二个大学队伍,这些队员们身着裙子或者西服及领带,而不是传统的头盔和钉鞋，他们将静静等待在明年3月举行的校际伦理杯这项赛事中其中的一支队伍被宣布获得冠军的那一激动时刻。

These competitions are more like a television quiz show than a gridiron collision. Moderators pose questions to teams of three to five students about moral problems such as classroom cheating, choices between right and wrong on the job, and political ethics.

这些比赛,更像一个电视问答节目,而不是一次橄榄球的激情碰撞。节目主持人对三到五名队伍的学生提出各种道德问题,如课堂作弊,选择适合与否的工作及政治伦理。

Of course, some would say the last of those - political ethics - is an oxymoron: an impossible, contradictory term and therefore some sort of trick question.

当然,有些人会说，最后的政治伦理是一种矛盾修饰法:一种不可能的，矛盾的术语,因此是某种恶作剧的问题。
　

The University of Central Florida sports teams are called the “Knights.” We might call this 2011 Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl championship team from UCF the “Brights!”

Ethics Bowl questions posed to contestants will be taken from 15 case studies posted on the Practical and Professional Ethics Association’s Web page in January.

所提出的问题将被从15个案例研究中选择，这些案例全部在一月份Practical and Professional Ethics Association（实用和专业伦理协会）的网站上公布。

One such study concerned ethical dilemmas at Virginia Commonwealth University, which faced spiraling costs and funding cuts in 2010. It accepted research grants from a big Virginia tobacco company, and agreed to give that company the intellectual property rights to the results of that research.

在弗吉尼亚联邦大学，一项这样的研究也面临着道德困境,2010年他们曾面临着成本上升和经费减少。而在从一个大的维吉尼亚烟草公司接受了科研赞助后,他们也同意给这家公司研究结果的知识产权。

A panel of judges evaluates the students’ answers to Ethics Bowl questions and declares a winner in each round. The 2011 Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl champion was a team from the University of Central Florida.

一位评委评估学生回答的问题，并且在每一轮都宣布获胜者。2011年获得校际伦理杯冠军的是来自中央佛罗里达大学的一个研究小组。

Instructions for Ethics Bowl participants, also printed on the Ethics Association’s Web site, include a section called “Rules for Acceptable Behavior.” So just as in football, referees will be vigilantly watching these intellectual tussles.

对于伦理杯的参赛者说明也公布在道德协会的网站上,其中一段称为“可接受行为的规则”。就像在足球比赛中,裁判将警觉的看着这些高智商人群的争执。