Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Universities should give the same amount of money to their students' sports activities as they give to their university libraries. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.
I disagree strongly with the idea that the same amount of money should go to university sports activities as to university libraries. Although playing sports is a wonderful way to learn about teamwork, strategy and reaching your goals, it should not be the principal focus of a university education.
我强烈反对这样的观点，即大学体育活动的经费应该和大学图书馆的经费一样多。尽管体育运动是学习团队合作、战略和实现目标的一种极好的方式，但它不应成为大学教育的主要重点。
Students need the most up-to-date library facilities available to get the best education. Many of those facilities are very expensive to buy and maintain. These include computerized programs and access to internet research databases that students can use to find information all around the world. If a university is only offering its students resources of a decade ago, it's depriving those students of a tremendous amount of information.
学生需要最新的图书馆设施来获得最好的教育。其中许多设施的购买和维护都非常昂贵。其中包括计算机程序和访问因特网研究数据库，学生可以利用这些数据库在世界各地查找信息。如果一所大学仅仅提供十年前的学生资源，它将剥夺这些学生大量的信息。
Even the book and magazine budget of universities has gone up tremendously in last decade. More is being published on every subject, and every university wants to have this information available to its students.
甚至在过去十年里，大学的图书和杂志预算也大幅增加。每一门学科都有更多的文章发表，每一所大学都想让学生知道这些信息。
It also costs money for universities to keep their libraries open. Students need to have access to all the libraries' research tools as much of time as possible. Because students are young and can stay up all night studying, many universities are starting to leave their libraries open all night during exam periods. This costs money, because the staff has to be paid extra to be there. It also costs money to run the building (electricity, heat) during that time.
大学保持图书馆开放也要花钱。学生需要尽可能多的时间使用所有的图书馆和研究工具。由于学生年龄小，可以熬夜学习，许多大学开始在考试期间让图书馆通宵开放。这要花钱，因为工作人员必须额外付费才能到场。在这段时间里，管理这座大楼（电、热）也要花钱。
Students at universities are only going to benefit from their education if they can get to all the tools they need to learn. Sports are secondary to the resources that students need from university libraries. For this reason, libraries should always be better funded than sport activities.
大学里的学生只有获得了他们需要学习的所有工具，才能从他们的教育中受益。体育是大学图书馆学生所需要的第二资源。出于这个原因，图书馆的经费应该总是比体育活动好