1. In short what I want to call the attention of the people of Europe and America to, just at this moment when civilization seems to be threatened with bankruptcy, is that there is an invaluable and hitherto unsuspected asset of civilisation here in China. The asset of civilization is not the trade, the railway, the mineral wealth, gold, silver, iron or coal in this country. The asset of civilisation of the world today, I want to say here, is the Chinaman, the unspoilt real Chinaman with his Religion of good citizenship. The real Chinaman, I say, is an invaluable asset of civilisation, because he is a person who costs the world little or nothing to keep him in order. Indeed I would like
here to warn the people of Europe and America not to destroy this invaluable asset of civilisation, not to change and spoil the real Chinaman as they are now trying to do with their New Learning. If the people of Europe and America succeed in destroying the real Chinaman, the Chinese type of humanity; succeed in transforming the real Chinaman into a European or American, i.e., to say, a person who will require a priest or soldier to keep him in order, then surely they will increase the burden either of Religion or of Militarism of the world, _this last item at this moment already becoming a danger and menace to civilization and humanity. But on the other hand, suppose one could by some means or other change the European or American type of humanity, transform the European or American into a real Chinaman who will then not require a priest or soldier to keep him in order,;_just think what a burden will be taken off from the world.
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译文 1：总之，我想引起欧洲和美国的人民的关注的是，在现阶段当人们的道德观念似乎沦丧之时，在中国有一个无价的、迄今为止不为人所知的宝贵文化财产。这个文化的财产不是这个国家的贸易、铁路、矿产资源、金子、银、铁和煤。我这里想说的是，在当今世界，这个文化的财产就是中国人—一个没有道德沦丧的和有着良好公民信仰的真正的中国人。这个真正的中国人，是文明的无价之宝，因为他是不会对世界造成危害并且不用更多规则去约束的一个人。事实上，我想提醒欧美国家的人民不要去毁坏这样一个无价的文化财产，不要去改变和破坏这样的中国人，因为他们正在尝试着去接受新的学习去学习做这样一个中国人。如果欧美国家的人民成功的毁坏了这个真正的中国人—中国式的人；成功的将这样一个中国人转化成一个欧洲人或是美国人，例如，变成一个人想要获得牧师和士兵的保护，然后他们一定会增加无论是宗教或是军国主义的世界的压力，最后一项在这一刻已经成为一个对文明和人类的威胁和恐吓。但是另一方面，如果一个人可以以某些方法改变欧美国家的人民，把他们转变成一个到那时不再需要牧师和士兵来约束的，只想着解除世界所赋予的压力的真正的中国人。
2. The war was the most peaceful period of my life. The window of my bedroom faced southeast. My mother had curtained it, but that had small effect. I always woke up with the first light and, with all the responsibilities of the previous day melted, felt myself rather like the sun, ready to shine and feel joy. Life never seemed so simple and clear and full of possibilities as then. I stuck my feet out under the sheets-I called them Mrs. Left and Mrs. Right-and invented dramatic situations for them in which they discussed the problems of the day. At least Mrs. Right did; she easily showed her feelings, but I didn’t have the same control of Mrs. Left, so she mostly contented herself with nodding agreement.
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They discussed what Mother and I should do during the day, what Santa Claus should give a fellow for Christmas, and what steps should be taken to brighten the home. There was that little matter of the baby, for instance. Mother and I could never agree about that. Ours was the only house in the neighborhood without a new baby, and Mother said we couldn’t afford one till Father came back from the war because if cost seventeen and six. That showed how foolish she was. The Geneys up the road had a baby, and everyone knew they couldn’t afford seventeen and six. It was probably a cheap baby, and Mother wanted something really good, but I felt she was too hard to please. The Geneys’ baby would have done us fine.
Having settled my plans for the day, I got up, put a chair under my window, and lifted the frame high enough to stick out my head. The window overlooked the front gardens of the homes behind ours, and beyond these it looked over a deep valley to the tall, red-brick house up the opposite hillside, which were all still shadow, while those on our side of the valley were all lit up, though with long storage shadows that made them seem unfamiliar, stiff and painted.
After that I went into Mother’s room and climbed into the big bed. She woke and I began to tell her of my schemes. By this time, though I never seem to have noticed it, I was freezing in my nightshirt, but I warmed up as I talked until the last frost melted. I fell asleep beside her and woke again only when I heard her below in the kitchen, making breakfast.
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译文 2：
战争是我人生中最平静的时期。我房间的窗户朝着东南方向。我的母亲已经给它挂上了窗帘，但是这仅仅起了很小的作用。我经常在第一缕光射进来时醒来，所有的责任都在前一天融化，感觉我自己就像太阳一样，准备好照耀和感受快乐。从那以后，生活从未看起来如此简单清晰和充满可能性。我把我的脚伸出被窝，我叫她们左小姐和右小姐，她们在讨论一天中的烦恼时候我给她们创造了一个戏剧性的场景。至少，右小姐这样做了，她很轻松地表达了她的观点，但我没有左小姐那样的控制力，所以她基本上都是点头同意使她自己满意。
她们讨论今天我跟妈妈应该做什么事，圣诞老人在圣诞节应该给小孩什么礼物，怎样做才能使家里明亮一点。例如，一辆汽车的问题。妈妈和我都不会同意的。我们家是这个小区里唯一没有汽车的家庭，妈妈说我们负担不起17美元6美分直到爸爸从战争那里回家。那显得她很傻。路口的Geney家就有一辆汽车，所有人都知道他们不能负担得起17美元6美分。那真是一个廉价的汽车，而妈妈想要的是一个很好的汽车，但我觉得她太难满足了。Geney家的汽车可能已经比我们想象的好了。
已经确定好今天的计划之后我就起床了，搬了一张椅子在我的窗前，把窗户拉高到可以伸出我的头。这个窗户可以俯视位于我们家后面的那个房子的前院，除了这些看起来一个深山谷到在对面的山坡上的高大的红砖房子还很朦胧，而那些在我们这边的山谷都亮了，尽管那些有着长长影子的仓库让它们看起来还很不清楚、僵硬和五彩斑斓。
然后我走进妈妈的房间爬上那张大床。妈妈醒了，然后我就告诉她我的计划。直到这时候，尽管我好像没有发现但是穿着睡衣的我已经冻僵了但是我感觉很温暖当我讲着这些时直到最后的霜也融化了。我在她的旁边睡着了，等我再次醒来时只听到她俯身在厨房里做着早餐。
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3. 一提起中文或汉语的危机，有人就马上想到了弥漫全国的“英语热”，愤愤然，悻悻然，仿佛汉语遭遇危机的根源就在于英语的过“热”。汉语学者尤其喜欢这么说。这种观点我们不能认同。我认为，这是找错了靶子，批错了对象，也是在推卸责任，把本来应该由自己负的责任推到别人身_上去。
英语有没有过热的现象?有。不但有，而且还很严重。请看几个数字:
一是学习英语的人数。有人根据人口普查数据中初中以上文化的人口比例，估算出1964年以来中国大约有4亿人学过英语。
二是学习英语所花的时间。中国外语教育研究中心2004年10月对几千名非英语专业的大学生做了一次英语学习时间的调查，结果是，几乎占据上大学全部时间的有19%，占大部分时间的有56%。
三是学习英语所花费的财力。据统计，英语教育市场已成为中国一大市场，年产值高达数百亿元，为国民生产总值的1% 。
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Mention about Chinese or Chinese crisis, somebody maybe angrily and sulkily think of the “English fever” which has spread over the country, as if the root of Chinese suffered the crisis is that English is too hot. Chinese scholars especially like to say so. We cannot agree to this opinion. I think that it is find the wrong target, criticize the wrong object and shirk the responsibilities to others which should have been blamed ourselves.
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Does English is overheating? Yes, it is, and very serious. Look at a few numbers.
First, the number of people learning English is very high. According to the census data that the proportion of the population of junior high school and above culture, people estimated that there has about 400million people learned English since 1964.
Second, the time that people spend on learning English. Chinese Foreign Language Education Research Center did a survey of English learning time among thousands of non-English major college students in October 2004. Only to find that there are 19% of students spend almost their college life time on studying English, and 56% of them spend most of the time.
Third, the amount of money people cost to learn English. According to statistics, English education has become a big market in china. Its annual value of production up to tens of billions of Yuan, the proportion of GNP is 1%.
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