Harvard and Yale may be North America’s most famous universities but the east coast home cities of these two “Old Ivies” could barely be more different. Harvard is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, an affluent and famously left-leaning locale, once named the US’s most liberal city in a study by the Bay Area Center for Voting Research. It is nicknamed, not always admiringly, the “People’s Republic of Cambridge” and was the first city in the US to elect an openly gay, black man as mayor.
哈佛(Harvard)与耶鲁(Yale)也许是北美最知名的两所大学，但这两所“常青藤老牌院校”(“Old Ivies”)所在的东海岸城市实际情况却大相径庭。哈佛位于马萨诸塞州坎布里奇(Cambridge)，这儿生活富足，是著名的左派思想大本营，曾被湾区选举研究中心(Bay Area Center for Voting Research)的一项研究报告评为美国思想最自由的城市，它被昵称（并不总是人见人羡）为“坎布里奇人民共和国”(“People’s Republic of Cambridge”)也是全美首座公然选举黑人同性恋者为市长的城市。