1、 兩分鐘做個小測試，看看你的英語水平/test/quwen.aspx?tid=16-73675-0美聯英語提供：關于堅持的英語演講稿（中英文對照）3Okay. Now this is the major change that Ive seen - how teaching English hasmorphed from being a mutually beneficial practice to becoming a massiveinternational business that it is today. No longer just a foreign language on th

2、eschool curriculum. And no longer the sole domain of mother England. It hasbecome a bandwagon for every English-speaking nation on earth. And why not?After all, the best education - according to the latest World University Rankings -is to be found in the universities of the U.K. and the U.S. So ever

3、ybody wants tohave an English education, naturally. But if youre not a native speaker, you have topass a test.言歸正傳，我見過最大的改變，就是英語教學的蛻變如何從一個互惠互利的行為變成今天這種大規模的國際產業。英語不再是學校課程里的外語學科，也不再只是英國的專利。英語(教學)已經成為所有英語系國家追逐的潮流。何樂而不為呢?畢竟，最好的教育來自于最好的大學，而根據最新的世界大學排名，那些名列前茅的都是英國和美國的大學。所以自然每個人都想接受英語教育，但如果你不是以英文為母語，你就要通過考

4、試。Now can it be right to reject a student on linguistic ability alone? Perhaps you havea computer scientist whos a genius. Would he need the same language as a lawyer,for example? Well, I dont think so. We English teachers reject them all the time. Weput a stop sign, and we stop them in their tracks

5、. They cant pursue their dream anylonger, till they get English. Now let me put it this way, if I met a monolingual Dutch speaker who had the cure for cancer, would I stop him from entering my BritishUniversity? I dont think so. But indeed, that is exactly what we do. We Englishteachers are the gate

6、keepers. And you have to satisfy us first that your English isgood enough. Now it can be dangerous to give too much power to a narrowsegment of society. Maybe the barrier would be too universal.但僅憑語言能力就拒絕學生這樣對嗎?譬如如果你碰到一位天才計算機科學家，但他會需要有和律師一樣的語言能力嗎?我不這么認為。但身為英語老師的我們，卻總是拒絕他們。我們處處設限，將學生擋在路上，使他們無法再追求自己的夢

7、想，直到他們通過考試。現在容我換一個方式說，如果我遇到了一位只會說荷蘭話的人，而這個人能治愈癌癥，我會阻止他進入我的英國大學嗎?我想不會。但事實上，我們的確在做這種事。我們這些英語老師就是把關的。你必須先讓我們滿意，使我們認定你的英文夠好。但這可能是危險的。把太多的權力交由這么小的一群人把持，也許會令這種障礙太過普及。Okay. But, I hear you say, what about the research? Its all in English. So thebooks are in English, the journals are done in English, but th

8、at is a self-fulfillingprophecy. It feeds the English requirement. And so it goes on. I ask you, whathappened to translation? If you think about the Islamic Golden Age, there was lotsof translation then. They translated from Latin and Greek into Arabic, into Persian,and then it was translated on int

9、o the Germanic languages of Europe and theRomance languages. And so light shone upon the Dark Ages of Europe. Now dontget me wrong; I am not against teaching English, all you English teachers out there.I love it that we have a global language. We need one today more than ever. But Iam against using

10、it as a barrier. Do we really want to end up with 600 languages and the main one being English, or Chinese? We need more than that. Where do wedraw the line? This system equates intelligence with a knowledge of English whichis quite arbitrary.于是，我聽到你們問但是研究呢?研究報告都要用英文。”的確，研究論著和期刊都要用英文發表，但這只是一種理所當然的現象。有英語要求，自然就有英語供給，然后就這么循環下去。我倒想問問大家，為什么不用翻譯呢?想想伊斯蘭的黃金時代，當時翻譯盛行，人們把拉丁文和希臘文翻譯成阿拉伯文或波斯文，然后再由拉伯文或波斯文翻譯為歐洲的日耳曼語言以及羅曼語言。于是文明照亮了歐洲的黑暗時代。但不要誤會我的意思，我不是反對英語教學或是在座所有的英語老師