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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。
adj. 全球性的，全世界的，球状的，全局的
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- Now, at the same time, English is the undisputed global language.
- 而同时，现在英语又无可争辩地成为全球性语言。
- Could there be a connection? Well I don't know.
- 这两者间有联系吗？我不知道。
- But I do know that I've seen a lot of changes.
- 但是我知道我已目睹了很多变化。
- When I first came out to the Gulf, I came to Kuwait in the days when it was still a hardship post.
- 当我初到海湾时，我到了科威特，那个时候那儿还算是一个艰苦地区。
- Actually, not that long ago. That is a little bit too early.
- 其实也就是没多久以前。这幅图还更早一点。
- But nevertheless, I was recruited by the British Council, along with about 25 other teachers.
- 不去管它，我被英国文化协会招聘到这里，同时招来的还有其他25个老师。
- And we were the first non-Muslims to teach in the state schools there in Kuwait.
- 我们是最早在科威特公立学校教书的非穆斯林。
- We were brought to teach English because the government wanted to modernize the country
- 我们被请来教英语，因为政府想要发展国家现代化
- and to empower the citizens through education.
- 让公民通过学习提高自己。
- And of course, the U.K. benefited from some of that lovely oil wealth. Okay.
- 当然，英国也因此收益于那些让人喜爱的石油财富。好。
- Now this is the major change that I've seen --
- 这是我看见过的主要变化--
- how teaching English has morphed from being a mutually beneficial practice
- 英语教学是怎样演变的，使它从一个互惠的交流方式
- to becoming a massive international business that it is today.
- 变成如今的一个规模巨大的国际交流。
- No longer just a foreign language on the school curriculum,
- 它不再只是学校课程的一门外语课。
- and no longer the sole domain of mother England.
- 也不再是英国特有。
- It has become a bandwagon for every English-speaking nation on earth.
- 对地球上每个说英语的国家而言，说英语已成为潮流。
- And why not? After all, the best education
- 为什么不呢？毕竟，最好的教育--
- according to the latest World University Rankings -- is to be found in the universities of the U.K. and the U.S.
- 根据最新的世界大学排名--最好的大学总是在英国或者美国。
- So everybody wants to have an English education, naturally.
- 自然每个人都想得到英语教育。
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| 重点单词 | 查看全部解释 | |||
| global | ['gləubəl] | 联想记忆 | ||
| modernize | ['mɔdən.aiz] | |||
| massive | ['mæsiv] | |||
| beneficial | [.beni'fiʃəl] | 联想记忆 | ||
| hardship | ['hɑ:dʃip] | 联想记忆 | ||
| curriculum | [kə'rikjuləm] | 联想记忆 | ||
| nevertheless | [.nevəðə'les] | |||
| empower | [im'pauə] | 联想记忆 |
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