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请看TED2009年度大会上JayWalker对亚洲人学英语热潮的分析。Jay Walker解释了为什么全世界20亿人在学英语。他展示了一些图片和一些令人激动的录像，展示了成千上万的中国学生练习“世界第二语言”英语的场面。Jay Walker explainswhy two billion people around the world are trying to learn English. He sharesphotos and spine-tingling audio of Chinese students rehearsing English -"the world's second language" - by the thousands..
《世界英语热》中英文演讲稿#奇速英语时文阅读#
Let's talk about manias. Let's start with Beatle mania. Hystericalteenagers, crying, screaming, 
pandemonium. Sports mania. Deafening crowds.All for one idea. Get the ball in the net. Okay, religious mania. There'srapture. There's weeping. There's visions. Manias can be good. Manias canbe alarming. Or manias can be deadly.
让我们来谈谈狂热，先从甲壳虫热说起。歇斯底里的少年们，高呼、尖叫、喧嚣的场面。体育热震耳欲聋的人群，都是为了一个目标，要球进网。还有，宗教热，有欢笑，也有泪水。还有梦想。狂热可以是件好事，狂热也可以使人担心，有时狂热也可以是致命的。
The world has a new mania. A mania for learning English. Listen as Chinesestudents practice their English by screaming it.
现在世界上有一种新的狂热。学习英语的狂热。听，中国学生在练习讲英语，用高声叫喊的方式练习英语。
Teacher: ... change my life!
老师：……改变我的生活!
Students: I will change my life.
学生：我要改变我的命运。
T: I don't want to let my parents down.
老师：我不想让父母失望。
S: I don't want to let my parents down.
学生：我不想让父母失望。
T: I don't ever want to let my country down.
老师：我从不想让国家失望。
S: I don't ever want to let my country down.
学生：我从不想让
国家失望。
T: Most importantly ...
S: Most importantly ...
老师：最重要的……
学生：最重要的……
T: I don't want to let myself down.
老师：我不想让我自己失望。
S: I don't want to let myself down.
学生：我不想让我自己失望。
Jay Walker: How many people are trying to learn English worldwide? Twobillion of them.
Jay Walker: 全世界现在有多少人学习英语? 20亿。
Students: A T-shirt. A dress.
学生：一件衬衫。一条裙子。
JW: In Latin America, in India,in Southeast Asia, and most of all in China. If you are a Chinesestudent, you start learning English in the third grade, by law. That's why thisyear Chinawill become the world'slargest English speaking country. (Laughter) Why English? In a single word: Opportunity. Opportunityfor a better life, a job, to be able to pay for school, or put better food onthe table. Imagine a student taking a giant test for three full days. Her score on thisone test literally determines her future. She studies 12 hours a day for three yearsto prepare. 25 percent of her grade is based on English. It's called theGaokao. And 80 million high school Chinese students have already taken thisgrueling test. The intensity to learn English isalmost unimaginable. Unless you witness it.
JW：在拉丁美洲，在印度，在东南亚, 甚至在几乎整个中国。如果你是个中国学生，根据法律，在小学三年级你得开始学习英语。这就是为什么今年中国会成为全世界最大的讲英语的国家。(笑声)为什么是英语?用一个词来回答：机会。一个获得更好生活，工作的机会。可以上得起学，可以吃更好的食物。想象一个学生用整整三天时间参加一次大考。她的这个考试的成绩真正地决定了她的前途。她每天学习12个小时，三年间都是如此，就是为了准备这个考试。其中25%的成绩是由英语决定的，这个考试叫做高考。有8000万的中国高中生都已经参加过这个“独木桥”考试。学习英语的强度几乎不可想象。除非你亲自见证过。
Teacher: Perfect!
Students: Perfect!
老师：完美!
学生：完美!
T: Perfect!
S: Perfect!
T: I want to speak perfect English.
老师：我想讲完美的英语。
S: I want to speak perfect English.
学生：我想讲完美的英语。
T: I want to speak …
S: I want to speak …
老师：我想说…….
学生：我想说……
T: perfect English.
S: perfect English.
学生：完美的英语。
T: I want to change my life!
老师：我要改变我的命运!
S: I want to change my life!
学生：我要改变我的命运!
JW: So is English mania good or bad? Is English a tsunami, washing away other languages?Not likely. English is the world's second language. Your native language isyour life. But with English you can become part of a widerconversation. A global conversation about global problems. Like climate changeor poverty. Or hunger or disease. The world has other universal languages.Mathematics is the language of science. Music is the language of emotions. Andnow English is becoming the language of problem solving. Not because America ispushing it. But because the world is pulling it. So English mania is a turningpoint. Like the harnessing of electricity in ourcities, or the fall of the Berlin Wall, English represents hope for a betterfuture. A future where the world has a common language to solve its commonproblems.
JW：那么这股英语热是好还是坏呢?英语是海啸吗?席卷其他所有的语言?未必。英语是世界第二大语言。你的母语是你的生活，但是英语可以让你参与更大范围的讨论。一个全世界范围的关于全球问题的讨论。比如，气候改变或者贫穷，或者饥饿，或是疾病。这个世界上还有其他的全球性语言。数学是科学的语言，音乐是感情的语言。现在，英语正在成为解决问题的语言。并不是因为美国促使其如此。而是因为全世界的需要。所以英语热是一个转折点。就像我们城市里的供电系统，或者柏林墙的倒塌，英语代表着希望，拥有一个更好的未来的希望。未来全世界将用共同语言去解决共同的问题。
Thank you very much. (Applause)
非常感谢。(掌声)
英语路上，最难的就是坚持。当考试，工作，出国......这些理由也不足以支撑你坚持下去时。看看这10条语录吧，分分钟让你动力满满!
1. If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to 
his heart.
如果你用别人能理解的语言与对方谈话，那么谈话会进入对方的大脑。如果你用对方的语言与之谈话，那么谈话会进入对方的心里。Nelson Mandela
2. One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.一种语言可以为人生开启一条走廊。俩种语言则会使这条人生走廊的沿途上处处开启大门。Frank Smith
3. The limits of my language are the limits of my world.语言的限制就是对我的世界的限制。Ludwig Wittgenstein
4. Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can; there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.学习一切你所能学，任何时间，无论向谁;总有一天你会为你所做感到欣慰。Sarah Caldwell
5. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.学习是无论到哪都追随主人的财富。Chinese Proverb
6. You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.除非你掌握了俩门以上的语言，否则你永远无法真正理解一门语言。Geoffrey Willans
7. To have another language is to possess a second soul.掌握另一门语言，拥有第二个灵魂!Charlemagne
8. Those who know nothing 
of foreign languages know nothing of their own.不了解外语的人也无法真正了解自己的语言。Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
9. Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.语言是文化的地图。它为你解答人们从哪里来到哪里去。Rita Mae Brown
10. Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.语言是灵魂的血肉，有了血肉，思想就可以奔跑，有了灵魂，语言才得以成长。Oliver Wendell Holmes
