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专八题目：
Should Senior Professors Emphasize More on Research?
专八范文：
Many college students realize that it is a privilege to attend senior professors’ lectures. Oftentimes, those senior professors are unique in their teaching styles, have an encyclopedic knowledge in their domains, and have acquired an efficient way to communicate with their students. However, those senior professorsappear to be always obsessed with academic research, social activities and other engagements.
许多大学生意识到参加教授的课程至关重要。通常，这些资深教授在教学上有自己的独到之处，他们学识渊博，并能够很好的与学生进行交谈。但是，这些教授把大量时间都放在了科研，社会活动，以及其他活动上。
In some universities, authorities have to decree that senior professors should at least give required lectures during a semester. Some people hold that senior professors should lay more emphasis on research, for their achievement will promote the advancement of science and technology. But I do not agree.
在许多大学里，校方要求教授一个学期至少上够所要求的课程。许多人认为，教授应该把更多的精力放在研究上，因为他们的成果将会推动科学和技术的发展。但是我不赞同。
Firstly, while senior professors concentrate on research, they are likely to spend less time preparing fora coming lecture. Though senior professors are likely to make more advancement of their research if they can absorb themselves in their study, they are required to take the responsibility of cultivating talents for our society, which is more important. I still remember late professor Yang Changji’s life pursuit. He said that he would be satisfied if he could cultivate a couple of backbones for China. Some may not clearly list how many books Professor Yang wrote during his lifetime, but almost all Chinese people remember that he succeeded in cultivating a group of people represented by Mao Zedong. In this sense, cultivating students of tremendous promise is more important than carrying out academic research to make a name.
首先，如果教授把大量的时间放在研究上，那么，他们准备上课的时间就会减少。尽管教授会在研究领域有所建树，前提是，他们会更加重视研究，但是，他们更有责任来培养有助于社会的人才，这更加重要。我仍然记得杨昌济教授一生的追求。他说如果他能够为中国培养出股肱之才，那么他就会感到非常满足。人们可能记不清杨教授一生写过多少书籍，但是几乎所有中国人都记得他培养过多少人才。从这一点来说，培养学生比著书研究、功成名就更为重要。
Secondly, while senior professors give fewer lectures to students, young faculties would be denied the opportunity to learn pedagogy from these senior professors. In the past, young teachers would start their teaching career as assistants to senior professors. They were required to participate in lectures and tutor students so that young teachers would be able to acquire requisite skills, attitudes and other essentials of giving lectures. When occasions arise, senior professors would ask their assistant teachers to give democlasses so that seniors could evaluate how much progress their assistants had made. However, young faculties find it difficult to consult with their seniors, for seniors are always otherwise engaged, either in academic research or in the social activities. As a result, when young faculties have to improve their pedagogy by trial and error, college students constitute guinea pigs.
第二，许多教授很少教学生，许多年轻教师也很少有机会能够从教授那里学习教学方法。在过去，年轻教师会从助教开始干起，之后成为资深教授。人们允许他们参加课程，并辅导学生，这样，年轻老师才能获得所必须的技能以及其他一些教授课程所必须的知识。有时教授还会让助教来试讲，这样，教授就能够对助教的水平有一个了解。但是，年轻教师发现他们很难有机会与教授进行沟通，教授总是忙于各种活动之中，或是学术研究，或是社会活动。所以，当年轻教师想要提高自己的教学水平时，学生就成了试验品。
In sum, it is senior professors’ responsibility to cultivate talents for the society and help improve young teachers’ pedagogy. Though they can make a name in research, their preference to research would be to the detriment of the cultivation of promising students in the long run.
总结，教授有责任为社会培养人才，并帮助年轻老师提高教学水平。尽管他们能够功成名就，他们对研究的大量投入将会对学生的长远发展不利。
译文属可可英语原创，未经允许，不得转载。
