【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 aching English, all you English teachers out there. I love it that we have a global language. We need one today more than ever. But I am against using 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 we draw the line? This system equates intelligence with a knowledge of English which is quite arbitrary.
　　于是，我聽到你們問amp。quot。但是研究呢?研究報(bào)告都要用英文。”。的確，研究論著和期刊都要用英文發(fā)表，但這只是一種理所當(dāng)然的現(xiàn)象。有英語要求，自然就有英語供給，然后就這么循環(huán)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(shí)代，當(dāng)時(shí)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(shí)代。但不要誤會(huì)我的意思，我不是反對(duì)英語教學(xué)或是在座所有的英語老師。我很高興我們有一個(gè)全球性的語言，這在今日尤為重要。但我反對(duì)用英語設(shè)立障礙。難道我們真希望世界上只剩下600種語言，其中又以英文或中文為主流嗎?我們需要的不只如此。那么我們?cè)撊绾文媚竽?這個(gè)體制把智能和英語能力畫上等號(hào)這是相當(dāng)武斷的。
　　And I want to remind you that the giants upon whose shoulders todayamp。39。s intelligentsia stand did not have to have English, they didnamp。39。t have to pass an English test. Case in point, Einstein. He, by the way, was considered remedial at school because he was, in fact, dyslexic. But fortunately for the world, he did not have to pass an English test. Because they didnamp。39。t start until 1964 with TOEFL, the American test of English. Now itamp。39。s exploded. There are lots and lots of tests of English. And millions and millions of students take these tests every year. Now you might think, you and me, those fees arenamp。39。t bad, theyamp。39。re okay, but they are prohibitive to so many millions of poor people. So immediately, weamp。39。re rejecting them.
　　我想要提醒你們，扶持當(dāng)代知識(shí)分子的這些”。巨人肩膀amp。quot。不必非得具有英文能力，他們不需要通過英語考試。愛因斯坦就是典型的例子。順便說一下，他在學(xué)校還曾被認(rèn)為需要課外補(bǔ)習(xí)，因?yàn)樗鋵?shí)有閱讀障礙。但對(duì)整個(gè)世界來說,很幸運(yùn)的當(dāng)時(shí)他不需要通過英語考試，因?yàn)樗麄冎钡?964年才開始使用托?！，F(xiàn)在英語測(cè)驗(yàn)太泛濫了，有太多太多的英語測(cè)驗(yàn)，以及成千上萬的學(xué)生每年都在參加這些考試。現(xiàn)在你會(huì)認(rèn)為，你和我都這么想，這些費(fèi)用不貴，價(jià)錢滿合理的。但是對(duì)數(shù)百萬的窮人來說，這些費(fèi)用高不可攀。所以，當(dāng)下我們又拒絕了他們。
　　It brings to mind a headline I saw recently: amp。quot。Education: The Great Divide.amp。quot。 Now I get it, I understand why people would focus on English. They want to give their children the best chance in life. And to do that, they need a Western education. Because, of course, the best jobs go to people out of the Western Universities, that I put on earlier. Itamp。39。s a circular thing.
　　這使我想起最近看到的一個(gè)新聞標(biāo)題：”。教育：大鴻溝”?，F(xiàn)在我懂了。我了解為什么大家都重視英語，因?yàn)樗麄兿Ｍo孩子最好的人生機(jī)會(huì)。為了達(dá)成這目的，他們需要西方教育。畢竟，不可否認(rèn)，最好的工作都留給那些西方大學(xué)畢業(yè)出來的人。就像我之前說的，這是一種循環(huán)。
　　Okay. Let me tell you a story about two scientists, two English scientists. They were doing an experiment to do with genetics and the forelimbs and the hind limbs of animals. But they couldnamp。39。t get the results they wanted. They really didnamp。39。t know what to do, until along came a German scientist who realized that they were using two words for forelimb and hind limb, whereas genetics does not different