阿默斯特学院(Amherst College)留学文书写作指南（2025-2026版）

Choose one of the following quotations, and respond to the question posed, in an essay. It is not necessary to research, read, or refer to the texts from which these quotations are taken; we are looking for original, personal responses to these short excerpts. Remember that your essay should be personal in nature and not simply an argumentative essay.

• 写文书 "Amherst College is committed to learning through close colloquy and to expanding the realm of knowledge through scholarly research and artistic creation at the highest level. Its graduates link learning with leadership—in service to the College, to their communities, and to the world beyond."
  – from the Mission of Amherst College
  What do you see as the benefits of linking learning with leadership and/or service? In your response, please share with us a time where you have seen that benefit through your own experience.
• 写文书 "We seek an Amherst made stronger because it includes those whose experiences can enhance our understanding of our nation and our world. We do so in the faith that our humanity is an identity forged from diversity, and that our different perspectives enrich our inquiry, deepen our knowledge, strengthen our community, and prepare students to engage with an ever-changing world."
  - from the Trustee Statement on Diversity and Community
  In what ways could your unique experiences enhance our understanding of our nation and our world?
• 写文书 "Strong commitment to the freedom of inquiry lies at the heart of Amherst College’s mission to create a home in which the liberal arts may flourish. As a small residential liberal arts college that prides itself on the ability, curiosity, and diversity of its students, Amherst seeks to create a respectful environment in which members of its community feel emboldened to pursue their intellectual and creative passions."
  – from the Amherst College Statement of Academic and Expressive Freedom
  Tell us about an intellectual or creative passion you have pursued; what did you learn about yourself through that pursuit?

翻译：选择下面引文之一，用文书的形式回答问题。研究、阅读或引用它们的出处是不必要的。我们希望看到对这些引文的原创的、个性化的回应。请记住你的短文的性质应该是带有你个性的，而不单纯是一篇议论文。

• “阿默斯特学院致力于在最高级别通过近距离对话学习以及通过学术研究同艺术创作拓展知识领域。毕业生们将学习与领导力联系起来——服务学院、社区以及更广大的世界。”
  ---摘自阿默斯特学院使命
  在你看来将学习与领导力和/或服务联系起来有什么好处？在你的回答中，请与我们分享你在自己经历中发现这种好处的一刻。
• “我们致力于建构更强大的阿默斯特，因为学校成员的经验可以增进我们对美国和世界的理解。我们这么做是基于这样的信念——我们的人性是由多元化塑造的身份，且我们的不同视角丰富了我们的探索、加深了我们的知识、强化了我们的社区并帮助学生融入不断变化的世界。”
  ---摘自校董对多元化与社区的声明
  你的独特经历能以怎样的方式增强我们对美国和世界的理解？
• “坚定致力于自由探索是阿默斯特学院使命的核心，即创造一个博雅教育可以蓬勃发展的家园。作为一所为其学生的能力、好奇心与多样性而自豪的小型寄宿制文理学院，阿默斯特全力营造一个充满尊重的环境，让社区成员勇敢追寻他们求知与创作的爱好。”
  ---摘自阿默斯特学院对学术与表达自由的声明
  告诉我们一个你追寻过的求知或创作的爱好；在追寻过程中你对自己有何了解？

解析：

• AADPS分类I-a
• AADPS分类II-b
• AADPS分类I-b

字数限制：三选一，350词

写文书 At Amherst we know that identity is more than checkboxes. If you would like to share more about your identity, background, family, culture or community, please tell us more here.

翻译： 在阿默斯特我们知道身份不仅是在选项上打勾。如果你希望分享更多关于你身份、背景、家庭、文化或社区的情况，请在这里告诉我们。

解析：AADPS分类IV-a/AADPS分类II-a

字数限制：可选，175词

Please respond to one of the following quotations in an essay. It is not necessary to research, read, or refer to the texts from which these quotations are taken; we are looking for original, personal responses to these short excerpts. Remember that your essay should be personal in nature and not simply an argumentative essay.

• 写文书 "Rigorous reasoning is crucial in mathematics, and insight plays an important secondary role these days. In the natural sciences, I would say that the order of these two virtues is reversed. Rigor is, of course, very important. But the most important value is insight---insight into the workings of the world. It may be because there is another guarantor of correctness in the sciences, namely, the empirical evidence from observation and experiments."
  ---Kannan Jagannathan, Professor of Physics, Amherst College
• 写文书 "Translation is the art of bridging cultures. It's about interpreting the essence of a text, transporting its rhythms and becoming intimate with its meaning… Translation, however, doesn't only occur across languages: mentally putting any idea into words is an act of translation; so is composing a symphony, doing business in the global market, understanding the roots of terrorism. No citizen, especially today, can exist in isolation—that is, untranslated.”
  ---Ilan Stavans, Professor of Latin American and Latino Culture, Amherst College, Robert Croll '16 and Cedric Duquene '15, from "Interpreting Terras Irradient," Amherst Magazine, Spring 2015.
• 写文书 "Creating an environment that allows students to build lasting friendships, including those that cut across seemingly entrenched societal and political boundaries… requires candor about the inevitable tensions, as well as about the wonderful opportunities, that diversity and inclusiveness create.”
  ---Carolyn "Biddy" Martin, President of Amherst College, Letter to Amherst College Alumni and Families, December 28, 2015.
• 写文书 "Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted."
  ---Attributed to William Hastie, Amherst Class of 1925, the first African-American to serve as a judge for the United States Court of Appeals

翻译：请用短文的形式回应下面的一段引文。研究、阅读或引用它们的出处是不必要的。我们希望看到对这些引文的原创的、个性化的回应。请记住你的短文的性质应该是带有你个性的，而不单纯是一篇议论文。

• “严密的推理在数学中是至关重要的，近来洞察力也会扮演重要的辅助角色。但在自然科学中，我得承认这两个美德的次序要颠倒过来。严密当然还是很重要的。但最重要的价值在于洞察力——对世界运作原理的洞悉。这或许是因为科学里有另一个保证正确性的因素的缘故，即由观察和实验得来的经验证据。”
  ---Kannan Jagannathan，阿默斯特学院物理教授
• “翻译是连接不同文化的艺术。翻译是关于阐释文本的内在，转递它的韵律以及亲近它的含义……然而翻译并不只是针对语言而言——把任何想法灌注到词里都可以视为是翻译的一种，而谱写交响乐、进行国际贸易或理解恐怖主义的根源也属于翻译。尤其是在今天，没有公民能孤立存在，或者换种说法，拒绝翻译而存在。”
  ---Ilan Stavans，阿默斯特学院拉丁美洲与拉丁文化教授，与两位学生Robert Croll与Cedric Duquene合著的文章《阐释“光耀大地”》，发表于2015年春校刊。“光耀大地”(Terras Irradient)为阿默斯特校训
• “创造一个让学生突破社会和政治藩篱而建立长久友谊的环境……需要坦率直面多元文化和兼容并蓄的议题。它们既会不可避免造成紧张，又能同时创造妙不可言的机会。”
  ---Carolyn “Biddy” Martin，阿默斯特学院校长，致校友和校友家属的信，2015年12月28日
• “困难并不预兆着绝望或失败。克服的障碍往往带来更大的满足感。”
  ---据称是William Hastie所言。阿默斯特学院1925级毕业生，美国联邦上诉法院的第一位黑人法官

解析：

• AADPS分类IV-d
• AADPS分类II-b
• AADPS分类II-b
• AADPS分类IV-b

字数限制：四选一，300词

Please respond to one of the following quotations in an essay. It is not necessary to research, read, or refer to the texts from which these quotations are taken; we are looking for original, personal responses to these short excerpts. Remember that your essay should be personal in nature and not simply an argumentative essay.

• “Literature is the best way to overcome death. My father, as I said, is an actor. He’s the happiest man on earth when he’s performing, but when the show is over, he’s sad and troubled. I wish he could live in the eternal present, because in the theater everything remains in memories and photographs. Literature, on the other hand, allows you to live in the present and to remain in the pantheon of the future. Literature is a way to say, I was here, this is what I thought, this is what I perceived. This is my signature, this is my name.”
  ---Ilán Stavans, Professor of Spanish, Amherst College. From “The Writer in Exile: an interview with Ilán Stavans” by Saideh Pakravan for the Fall 1993 issue of The Literary Review.
• “It seems to me incumbent upon this and other schools’ graduates to recognize their responsibility to the public interest...unless the graduates of this college…are willing to put back into our society those talents, the broad sympathy, the understanding, the compassion... then obviously the presuppositions upon which our democracy are based are bound to be fallible.”
  ---John F. Kennedy, at the ground breaking for the Amherst College Frost Library, October 26, 1963
• “Stereotyped beliefs have the power to become self-fulfilling prophesies for behavior.”
  ---Elizabeth Aries, Professor of Psychology, Amherst College. From her book Men and Women in Interaction, Reconsidering the Difference.

翻译：请用短文的形式回应下面的一段引文。研究、阅读或引用它们的出处是不必要的。我们希望看到对这些引文的原创的、个性化的回应。请记住你的短文的性质应该是带有你个性的，而不单纯是一篇议论文。

• “文学是胜过死亡的最好方式。我的父亲，正如我之前说的，是个演员。当他表演时他是世上最高兴的人，但演出结束后，他却充满了忧愁烦恼。我希望他能活在永恒的当下，因为对于演艺事业，一切还保留在回忆录和照片中。另一方面，文学同样让你活在当下并留在未来的万神殿中。文学是表达“我在这儿、这是我所想的、这是我所观察到的、这是我的特质、这是我的名字”的一种途径。”
  ---伊兰·斯塔，阿默斯特学院西班牙语教授。引自《被流放的作家：访伊兰·斯塔》，赛德·帕卡梵著，最初发表在《文艺评论》的1993年秋季卷上
• “我觉得有必要让这所学院以及其他学院的毕业生们认识到他们对于公众利益的责任。除非这所学院的毕业生们愿意用他们的才能、广博的同情心、理解能力和慈悲回馈社会，很显然的，那些我们的民主所建立其上的前提会注定失败。”
  ---约翰·肯尼迪，在阿默斯特学院福斯特图书馆破土时发表的演说，1963年10月26日
• “先入为主的信念在行为上会成就自我应验预言。”
  ---伊丽莎白·阿瑞斯，阿默斯特学院心理学教授。引自她的著作《重新认识男女互动的不同》

解析：

• AADPS分类IV-c
• AADPS分类II-a
• AADPS分类II-b

字数限制：300词