The survey by The Harvard Crimson was emailed to incoming first year undergraduates; 1,600 students responded. Results showed that at least a tenth of the students polled admitted to having cheated on an exam prior to starting at the university, while almost half admitted to cheating on their homework.

哈佛大学校报《哈佛深红》日前向本科入学新生发放了一项针对作弊问题的调查问卷。该调查结果表明，参与调查的1600名学生中，至少有十分之一承认在大学入学考试中作弊，而承认在家庭作业中作弊的学生更几近半数之多。

Athletes were apparently the most prone to cheating. 20 percent of students who played a university sport admitted to cheating on an exam compared to 9 percent of students who did not.

据调查显示，爱好运动的学生最为倾向于弄虚作假。参与学校组织的体育项目的学生中承认考试作弊的比例高达20%，相比之下，没有参加体育项目的学生中曾经作弊的比例只有9%。

The survey also revealed that men were not only more likely to cheat but were also more likely to admit to it.

同时，调查也表明与女同学相比，男同学不仅更倾向于作弊，也更倾向于承认自己的这一行径。

The results, compared to a previous survey done on the class of 2013, suggested that cheating may be becoming more commonplace. Of the outgoing seniors only 7 percent admitted to cheating in an exam and another 7 percent said they had been dishonest on a take-home test. 32 percent of the seniors said they had cheated on homework during their undergraduate years.

与该校对2013级入学新生的调查数据相比，研究结果表明大学生们对作弊已经越来越习与为常。在即将离校的大四学生中，只有7%承认曾经在考试中作弊，另有7%承认他们曾经在家庭完成的测验上弄虚作假。32%的大四学生称他们曾在本科期间的家庭作业上作弊。

The surveys come in the wake of a cheating scandal at the university which saw 120 students investigated for sharing answers on an exam in 2012.

这项调查是继哈佛在2012年传出的作弊丑闻之后展开的，在2012年的一场考试中，有120名学生因递交了雷同试卷受到校方审查。

One recent graduate stated: “Cheating was  commonplace when I was at Harvard, especially with students in their first year or two. I would say as many as 60 per cent of students took notes into some exams. No one really cared and the faculty, well some of them at least, seemed to recognise and yet ignore the problem”.

一名最近毕业的学生称道：“在我在校期间，作弊被学生们视为家常便饭，尤其是对大一、大二的学生。我可以说有60%的学生都会在考场上偷看小纸条。没有人重视过这一问题。而教师们——至少一部分的教师们，似乎对作弊问题采取了视而不见的态度。”

In an email to NBC News, Jeff Neal, a Harvard representative, explained that a committee, made up of faculty, staff and students had been established to tackle cheating, which “is a national problem in American education”.

哈佛大学发言人杰夫·尼尔在与NBC新闻的电邮通信中说，作弊问题可谓是“美国教育界一个全国性的问题”，而哈佛已经组织成立一个由教工、师资和学生组成的特殊委员会以专门应对这一问题。