我听写了一下, 只有少数几个句子没有听写出来,如 deafening crowds, all for one idea,借助于网络,找到原文对照了一下,才知道正确答案的.
Let’s talk about manias. Let’s start with Beatles mania. The hysterical teenages, crying, screaming, pandemonium, sports mania, deafening crowds, all for one idea, get the ball in the nets. okay, religious mania, there’s rapture, there’s weeping, there’s visions. Manias can be good, manias can be alarming, or manias can be deadly. The world has a new mania, a mania for learning English. Listen as Chinese students practice their English, by screaming it.
Change my life! I want to change my life! I don’t want to let my parents down! I don’t want to let my parents down! I don’t ever let my country down! I don’t ever let my country down! Most importantly! Most importantly! I don’t want to let myself down! I don’t want to let myself down!
How many people are trying to learn English worldwide? 2 billion of them.
A T-shirt. A dress.
In Latin America, in Inida, Southeast Asia, and most of all in China. If you’re a Chinese student you start learning English in the 3rd grade by law. That’s why this year China will become the world’s largest English speaking country. Why English? In single word, opportunity! Opportunity for a better life, a job, to be able to pay for school or put better food on the table. Imagine a student taking a giant test for 3 full days, her score on this one test literally determines her future. She started 12 hours a day for 3 years to prepare. 25% of her grade is based on her English. It’s called the Gaokao. And 80 million high school students’ve already taken this ruling test. The intensity to learn English is almost unimaginable unless you witness it.
Perfect! Perfect! Perfect! I wanna speak perfect English! I wanna speak perfect English! I wanna speak, I wanna speak, perfect English! perfect English! I want to change my life! I want to change my life!
So is English mania good or bad? Is English a tsunami washing away other languages? Not likely. English’s the world’s 2nd language. Your native language is your life, but with English you can become part of a wilder conversation. A global conversation about global problems, like climate change or poverty or hunger, disease. The world has other universal languages. Mathematics is language of science, music is the language of emotions, and now English is becoming the language of problem solving, not because America is pushing it, but because the world is pulling it. So English mania is a turning point. Like the harnessing of electricity in our cites or the fall of the Berlin Wall. English represents hope for a better future. A future where the world has a common language to solve its common problems. Thank you very much.
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