TED演：Jay Walker談中國英語學(xué)習(xí)狂熱.doc

TED演講：Jay Walker談中國英語學(xué)習(xí)狂熱Lets talk aboutmanias. Lets start withBeatle mania: hysterical teenagers, crying, screaming,pandemonium. Sports mania:deafening crowds, all for one idea - get the ball in the net. Okay,religiousmania: theresrapture, theresweeping, theres visions. Manias can be good. Manias can be alarming. Or manias can be deadly.讓我們來談?wù)効駸?。先從甲殼蟲熱說起。歇斯底里的少年們：高呼，尖叫，喧囂。體育熱：震耳欲聾的人群，都是為了一個(gè)目標(biāo)，讓球入網(wǎng)。還有宗教熱：有歡笑、也有淚水還有夢想?？駸峥赡苡幸?，也可能會(huì)令人擔(dān)憂。有時(shí)狂熱可能會(huì)很致命。The world has a new mania. A mania for learning English. Listen as Chinese students practice their English by screaming it.現(xiàn)在，世界上有種新的狂熱。學(xué)習(xí)英語的狂熱。下面聽聽中國學(xué)生用高聲叫喊的方式練習(xí)英語。Teacher: . change my life!老師：.改變我的生活！Students: I will change my life.學(xué)生：我要改變我的命運(yùn)。T: Idont want to let my parents down.老師：我不想讓父母失望。S: I dont want to let my parents down.學(xué)生：我不想讓父母失望。T: I dont ever want to let my country down.老師：我從不想讓國家失望。S: I dont ever want to let my country down.學(xué)生：我從不想讓國家失望。T: Most importantly . S: Most importantly .老師：最重要的.學(xué)生：最重要的.T: I dont want to let myself down.老師：我不想讓我自己失望。S: I dont want to let myself down.學(xué)生：我不想讓我自己失望。Jay Walker: How many people are trying to learn English worldwide? Two billion of them.JayWalker:全世界現(xiàn)在有多少人學(xué)習(xí)英語？20億Students: A t-shirt. A dress.學(xué)生：一件T恤。一條裙子。JW: InLatin America, in India, in Southeast Asia, and most of all in China. If you are a Chinese student you start learning English in the third grade, by law. Thats why this year China will become the worlds largest English-speaking country. (Laughter) Why English? In a single word: Opportunity. Opportunity for a better life, a job, to be able to pay for school, or put better food on the table. Imagine a student taking agianttestfor three full days. Her score on this one test literallydetermines her future. She studies 12 hours a day for three years to prepare. 25 percent of her grade is based on English. Its called the Gaokao, and 80 million high school Chinese students have already taken thisgruelingtest. The intensity to learn English is almost unimaginable, unless youwitnessit.JW：在拉丁美洲、印度、東南亞和幾乎整個(gè)中國。如果你是名中國學(xué)生，根據(jù)法律要求，你在小學(xué)三年級(jí)就得開始學(xué)英語。這就是為什么今年（2009年）中國會(huì)成為全世界最大的講英語的國家。（笑聲）為什么是英語？用一個(gè)詞來回答就是：機(jī)會(huì)。一個(gè)獲得更好的生活、工作的機(jī)會(huì)?？梢陨系闷饘W(xué)，可以吃上更好的食物。想象一個(gè)學(xué)生用整整三天時(shí)間參加一次大考。她的這次考試成績幾乎決定她的未來前途。為了準(zhǔn)備這次考試，她在三年的時(shí)間里，每天學(xué)習(xí)12小時(shí)。而這次考試25%的成績是由英語決定。這個(gè)考試叫做高考。有8000萬中國高中生參加過這個(gè)“獨(dú)木橋”考試。學(xué)英語的強(qiáng)度幾乎不可想象，除非你親眼目睹。Teacher: Perfect! Students: Perfect!老師：完美！學(xué)生：完美！T: Perfect! S: Perfect!老師：完美！學(xué)生：完美！T: I want to speak perfect English.老師：我想講完美的英語S: I want to speak perfect English.學(xué)生：我想講完美的英語T: I want to speak - S: I want to speak -老師：我想說-學(xué)生：我想說-T: perfect English. S: perfect English.學(xué)生：完美的英語。學(xué)生：完美的英語T: I want to change my life!老師：我要改變我的命運(yùn)！S: I want to change my life!學(xué)生：我要改變我的命運(yùn)！JW: So is English mania good or bad? Is English atsunami,washing away other languages? Not likely. English is the worlds second language. Your native language is your life. But with English you can become part of a widerconversation: a global conversation about global problems, like climate change or poverty, or hunger or disease. The world has other universal languages. Mathematics is the language of science. Music is the language of emotions. And now English is becoming the language of problem-solving. Not because America is pushing it, but because the world ispullingit. So English mania is aturning point. Like the harnessing of electricity in our cities orthe fall of the Berlin Wall, English represents hope for a better future - a future where the world has a common language to solve its common problems.JW：那么這股英語熱是好是壞呢？英語是不是海嘯，會(huì)席卷其它所有語言？不太可能。英語是世界第二大語言。你的母語就是你的人生。但英語可以讓你參與更大范圍的討論：關(guān)于全球性問題的全球范圍內(nèi)的討論。比如氣候變化、貧窮、饑餓