请看《中国日报》相关报道:A total of 150 million rural students in China will be exempted from paying tuition and incidental fees for their nine-year compulsory education when the second phase of the programme is implemented in the spring semester of 2007.
显然,日常所说的“学杂费”可表达为“tuition and incidental fees”。在教育词汇中,tuition常用来指“学费”。与“tuition”相比,“fee”涵盖的语义范围要宽,可以指“各类特定费用”或者“业务报酬”,如:“license fee”(执照费)、“surgeon's fee”(诊费)。
在该短语中,“incidental”指“非主要的、偶发的”,单独作名词也可表示“杂费”。除“incidental fees”外,杂费也可表示为“incidental expenses”或“incidental charges”。
此外,在财务报表中,杂费更常用“miscellaneous expense”来表示。

