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说到我国高校校名英文 过去的一些研究已注意到了这一译法的不妥。笔者也多次询问来自不同国家的英语外籍教师，他们无一例外地表示无法理解normal university是什么大学，根本无法让人把这样一个校名与一个“教师培养机构”联系起来。再从国外情况来看，normal university/ college是一个并不存在的表达，在功能强大的搜索引擎Google上输入normal university/ college进行检索的结果是，凡是采用这一说法的学校全部是中国的，包括台湾师范大学，而国外则似乎没有一例。 那么，我国的“师范”类高等院校的英文校名为何会是normal university/ college呢？在众多英文辞典没有做出解释的情况下，Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary 著名的网络百科全书Wikipedia 对于normal school 的来历有着如下详细的解释：A normal school was a school created to train high school graduates to be teachers. Its purpose was to establish teaching standards or norms, hence its name. Most such schools are now called teachers colleges, however in some places the term normal school is still used. In 1685, Saint John Baptist de La Salle, founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, founded what is generally considered the first normal school, the École Normale, — that is, a school whose purpose is to train teachers — in Reims. | 
