好，其实与其说我是来炫耀的，不如说我是来证明一下ntu的文字游戏也玩得很好。不要说我们学校too chinese, （The recent Gary Goh case has made NTU known for poorly speaking Profs and desperate poorly speaking students), we also play a very good game at manipulating English words.

我verify一下排名的出处。

TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT是英国的一个教育评论性读物。

 The Times Higher Education Supplement, also known as The Times Higher or The THES for short, is a newspaper based in London that reports specifically on issues related to higher education. It is owned by TSL Education, which was, until October 2005, a division of News International. The paper is edited by John O'Leary, author of The Times Good University Guide. The THES is probably best known for publishing The Times Higher World University Rankings (see college and university rankings), which first appeared in November 2004 [1], with new rankings published annually.(wikipedia)

这里提供一下这个机构的general world universities ranking 2005

Top universities overall (worldwide)

Rank	Prev. Rank	Institution	Country	Score (out of 100)
1	1	Harvard University	USA	100.0
2	3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA	86.9
3	6	University of Cambridge	UK	85.8
4	5	University of Oxford	UK	83.9
5	7	Stanford University	USA	83.4
6	2	University of California, Berkeley	USA	80.6
7	8	Yale University	USA	72.7
8	4	California Institute of Technology	USA	71.5
9	9	Princeton University	USA	64.8
10	27	Ecole Polytechnique	France	61.5
11=	52	Duke University	USA	59.1
11=	11	London School of Economics	UK	59.1
13	14	Imperial College London	UK	59.0
14	23	Cornell University	USA	58.1
15	17	Beijing University	China	56.3
16	12	Tokyo University	Japan	55.1
17=	20	University of California, San Francisco	USA	54.9
17=	13	University of Chicago	USA	54.9
19	22	Melbourne University	Australia	54.5
20	19	Columbia University	USA	53.9

上面的文章副题上清楚说明NTU is the only Singapore university to "advance" in the top league...这就让人感觉到NTU是唯一一个进入了排行榜的新加坡大学~ 而实际上~我再查了一下THES,发现'advance"这个词是在是用得神乎其神阿~ 不仅让我对写这篇报道的人佩服得五体投地~

Top universities overall (outside Europe and North America)

Rank	World rank	Institution	Country
1	15	Beijing University	China
2	16	University of Tokyo	Japan
3	19	University of Melbourne	Australia
4	22	National University of Singapore	Singapore
5	23	Australian National University	Australia
6	31	Kyoto University	Japan
7	33	Monash University	Australia
8	38	University of Sydney	Australia
9	40	University of New South Wales	Australia
10	41	Hong Kong University	China

原因是NUS仍然保持着排名~ 其没有“上升”。所以NTU is the only university to have "advanced" in the table...

文字的误导力量是不可被轻视的。