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演讲简介：
在TEDx迪拜,资深的英语教师帕特里夏·瑞安提出了一个发人深省的问题，这个独尊英语的世界是否会妨碍其他语言传播优秀的思想？例如，如果一定要爱因斯坦通过托福，这会造成怎样的结果呢？这段演讲热情地捍卫了翻译和分享思想的价值。
v. 交流，传达，沟通
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- I know what you're thinking.
- 我知道你们在想什么。
- You think I've lost my way,
- 你们想我迷路了，
- and somebody's going to come on the stage in a minute and guide me gently back to my seat.
- 有人马上会上台，把我领回到我的座位。
- I get that all the time in Dubai. "Here on holiday are you, dear?"
- 在迪拜老是有人这样问我。“亲爱的，来度假啊？”
- "Come to visit the children? How long are you staying?"
- “来看孩子们吗？呆多久啊？”
- Well actually, I hope for a while longer yet.
- 事实上，我希望我还能多在这儿呆几年呢。
- I have been living and teaching in the Gulf for over 30 years.
- 我在海湾地区已经生活和教书有30多年了。
- And in that time, I have seen a lot of changes.
- 在这期间，我目睹了很多变化。
- Now that statistic is quite shocking.
- 那些统计数据是令人非常吃惊的。
- And I want to talk to you today about language loss and the globalization of English.
- 而我今天要跟你们讲的是关于语种的消失和英语的全球化。
- I want to tell you about my friend who was teaching English to adults in Abu Dhabi.
- 我想告诉你们，我的一个朋友她在阿布扎比教成年人英语。
- And one fine day, she decided to take them into the garden to teach them some nature vocabulary.
- 一天，她决定带他们去花园，去教他们一些大自然用语。
- But it was she who ended up learning all the Arabic words for the local plants,
- 但是结果她反而学了所有当地植被的阿拉伯名称
- as well as their uses -- medicinal uses, cosmetics, cooking, herbal.
- 和它们的用途--药用的、化妆用的、食用的，草药。
- How did those students get all that knowledge?
- 那些学生是怎样得到这些知识的呢？
- Of course, from their grandparents and even their great-grandparents.
- 当然是从他们的祖父母那里，甚至是他们的曾祖父母那里。
- It's not necessary to tell you how important it is to be able to communicate across generations.
- 本来我没有必要告诉你们能够跨代交流是多么重要。
- But sadly, today, anguages are dying at an unprecedented rate.
- 但是，令人惋惜的是，今天很多语种正在以空前的速度消失着。
- A language dies every 14 days.
- 每14天就有一种语言消失。
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