1、注册为啥在中国教英语应该留胡子Before I Came to China在我来中国之前When I took my TESOL certification course in the summer of 2010 one of the things they told our class is that we would need to attach a photo to our resume. They also said that if we had beards, goatees or mustaches we might think about shaving. They stron
2、gly suggested shaving in fact because, in the words of our instructor, “in many countries people with facial hair are looked down upon and it might make it more difficult for you to get a job.”当我在 2010 年夏天修读 TESOL（对外英语教学）课程时，班上的人被告知，我们的简历中要附有个人照片。他们还说，如果我们留有髯须、山羊胡或者髭须（译者：嘴唇上的胡子），应该考虑剃掉。事实上，他们强烈建议我们刮
3、掉胡子，用我们导师的话来说，理由是“在许多国家，面部有胡须的人受到蔑视，也许会让你们更难找工作”。Okay, I thought, fair enough. At the time I had a small well trimmed goatee. I have had a goatee off and on for many years. Ive always liked the way it looks but occasionally I become bored and decide to change things up by shaving. So for me it was n
4、o problem to shave before taking my photo to add to my resume. 我想，好吧，这有点道理。当时我有一把精心修剪的山羊胡。多年来我反复地刮掉和蓄起山羊胡，我一直喜欢它的样子，但有时也会感到厌倦，决定通过剃须做些改变。目前为止，在给简历附上照片之前刮个胡子对我来说不成问题。The Growth of the Beard留胡子I continued to remain clean shaven till about half way through my first year teaching in China. Then I revert
5、ed to my old patterns of growing and keeping a goatee for two or three months at a time. The surprising thing is that no one seemed to care. Well that isnt exactly right. People did care. They were interested but no one complained. No one said that it was a problem for me to have a beard. No one got
6、 mad about it. People asked questions out of curiosity but nothing more. November or December of last year I stopped shaving. This was mostly out of laziness. I just didnt feel like shaving. For a couple of months I continued to trim it but I kept a full beard. At some point I stopped trimming and j
7、ust let the beard grow. Currently my beard is about an inch or two long and Im still letting it grow. What began as laziness morphed into my own curiosity with the fact that Ive never in the past had a full beard. This curiosity eventually evolved into a mild rebelliousness and even a useful tool. 直
8、到我在中国教了大约半年书之后，我都依然保持刮得干干净净的。之后，我又回复了旧习惯，蓄了两三个月的山羊胡子，可令人惊讶的是，看起来没人在意。好吧，其实也不完全是如此，人们确实关心，他们对此感兴趣，但没人抱怨。没人说我蓄胡子是个麻烦，没人因此暴走。大家会出于好奇问起些什么，但仅此而已。从去年 11 月还是 12 月起我不再剃胡子了。主要是因为懒，我实在不喜欢刮胡子的感觉。有那么一两个月我坚持修剪它但还是保持着大胡子。某些时候，我不再打理，就那样让我的胡子生长。目前我的胡子大约有一两英寸了而我打算继续留长。本来最初是出于懒惰，可现在，出于好奇，我开始期待着一把我从未有过的大胡子。这种好奇心最终演变成
9、轻度的逆反，甚至你可以说他是一种实用的工具。 One of the things that I have loathed since I started teaching is English Corner. In my school there are three sessions of English Corner scheduled each day. One of these is meant to be a free-for-all situation where anyone can say anything they want. The other two are meant t
10、o be split between students who lower intermediate and below during the first hour and people who are upper intermediate and above during the second hour. Sometimes there is a chosen topic that we have to follow for English corner, or at least pretend to follow. Sometimes there is no topic other tha
11、n what the teachers and student together decide. English corners for me have changed in no small part because of growing a beard.开始教书后我十分不情愿做的一件事是教“英语角”。我的学校每天都安排有三节“英语角”。其中一节是自由发挥，任何人可以就任何话题发言。其他两节根据学生水平分成两组，第一个小时安排中低级以下，第二个小时安排中高级以上。“英语角”有时候会选一个话题，每个人都得按话题，或者至少假装按话题发言。有时候只是由学生和老师一起商量好谈什么话题。由于我的原因，
12、“英语角”有了很大的改变，全拜我蓄了胡子所赐。10 Reasons a Foreign English Teacher Should Grow a Beard in China在中国教英语须留胡子的 10 大理由1.Students react to the beard. They ask about the beard. They ask you what to call it. They ask you about other forms of facial hair. Most importantly they are asking questions.1. 学生对胡子感兴趣。他们会问有
13、关胡子的问题。他们会问该怎么叫它。他们会问脸部毛发的各种类别。最重要的是，他们在提问。If youve ever held an English Corner you know that if no one is taking your English corner is dead and will be very long and painful. But if there is something interesting to talk about the students will talk on their own without you having to prompt them.（
14、接上）如果你曾经主持过英语角你就会明白，如果没人开口，那它就是漫长而痛苦的死寂。但是如果存在某些有趣的谈资，不需要你诱导，学生们就会自己聊起来。2.Different people will have different opinions and all of them will express them. Some students have told me they think that I should shave. Others have told me that they think that I should keep the beard. Some think that it l
15、ooks strange. Others think that it looks cool. The end result here is that they are talking. See point number one.2.不同的人会有不同的观点，并且都想要表达出来。有些学生就曾对我说，他们认为我该剃胡子。另外一些则告诉我他们觉得我该继续把胡子留起来。有些人认为我的胡子看起来很奇怪，其他人则觉得这很酷。最终，他们谈论起来。参见第一条。3.Even when you have a lively conversation going in an English corner there a
16、re sometimes lulls in the conversation. These lulls came result in the death of the rest of the English corner if something is not done. There are a handful of things that can help to prevent this but among them is the use of the beard. Sometimes it happens on its own with no action from me. As a co
17、nversation lulls an otherwise quiet student (who might not understand the current topic anyway) will sometimes ask a question about the beard. At other times if I stroke the beard it will illicit comments or questions about it. I noticed this happen the first few times accidentally but now will do i
18、t on purpose.3.即使在你的英语角中大家的都聊的很活跃，可谈话中总会有些间歇。搞得不好，这些间歇往往就导致接下来的大段冷场，极少有事物能像你的胡子那样能在这种情况下拯救世界。有时候不需要我做什么，它自然就发生了。在谈话的间隙中，某个一直沉默的学生（他可能并不知道当前的主题）可能就会问到关于胡子的问题。另有些时候我一捋胡子则议论或者提问就打住了。起初我只是偶然意识到，现在我会故意这样做。4. Most Chinese people are an only child. And most of my students come from families that have a bet
19、ter than average income. Like in America, these individuals who grew up as an only child give off the distinct impression that theyve not heard the word “no” very much in their lives. It gives me a deep sense of satisfaction when a little twenty-five year old princess who isnt used to the word “no”
20、tells me that she thinks I should shave my beard; to respond to her that this is my decision and that I dont believe that I will any time soon.4.大多数中国人都是独生子女。而我的大多数学生都来自中等收入以上的家庭。像在美国一样，这些心肝宝贝在成长过程过就没听到过一个态度鲜明的“不”字。所以，当一个对此字不太习惯的 25 岁的小公主跑来告诉我它认为我应该刮胡子，而我回应他这是我的个人决定并且我相信自己在相当的时期内都会保持的时候那感觉叼爆了。5. Som
21、e of them are jealous. Most Chinese men seem to be unable to grow an adequate amount of facial hair. Ive seen many students here with feeble attempts at mustaches. Ive seen others with patches of hair on their face. The vast majority however shave every day whether they are able to grow facial hair
22、or not. With many of them there seems to be a look in their eyes that says, Id like to do that too. if only I could.5.有些人会羡慕。大多数中国男人似乎不能够培养出充足的脸部毛发。我看到过这里许多学生徒劳地想蓄起小胡子。我也看见过一些学生脸上东一块西一块零落地长着毛发。然而，无论能不能长出脸部毛发，大多数的人每天都坚持刮胡子。他们眼睛中经常透露出这么一种眼神，似乎在说：如果行我也想这么来。 6.The subject of the beard often naturally le
23、ads into other subjects. The conversation in English corner might drift from the beard to differences in culture. Today the subject of the beard shifted to the subject of cleanliness as one student asked me if it was difficult to eat. For some reason students often think that having a beard makes yo
24、u a messy eater and the beard will get in the way if you are trying to eat with chopsticks, if you are eating rice or if you are eating soup.6.胡子的话题经常自然而然地引向其他的话题。英语角的对话可能会从胡子飘到讨论文化的差异。今天，胡子的话题就转移到卫生方面了。有个学生问我吃饭是不是有困难。不知为什么，学生会认为有了胡子你的吃相肯定糟糕。因为如果用筷子进餐，如果吃饭或者喝汤的话，胡子会挡住它们送进嘴巴的路程。 The subject then natu
25、rally shifted again to the subject of food. On occasion people will even talk about Christmas. Students who used to tell me that I should shave now tell me that I should keep the beard through next Christmas so that I can play Santa Claus. Again all of the students were talking at some point about s
26、omething.然后这个话题又会自然而然的转到食物的话题上去。在这种时候人们甚至会谈到圣诞节。学生们曾告诉我要剃掉胡子，现在他们告诉我应该继续保持着我的胡子直到下一个圣诞节，这样的话我就可以扮成圣诞老人了。之后所有的学生又会讨论其他的话题上去。7. It actually feels good. At first it was a little itchy but after a while the itching stops. I find that I enjoy stroking the beard and that I sometimes do it unconsciously.7.
27、胡子确实使我感觉很好。最初的时候胡子会让我感觉到痒，但是过了一会这种痒就没了。我发觉我很享受剃胡子的感觉并且有时候我会不自觉的把自己的胡子剃掉。8. Ive grown to like the way that it looks. Having never had a beard this long before Ive never seen myself look like this. I like changing the way that I look and because of this I will eventually shave. At the moment Im enjoyi
28、ng the beard because I look different from how I used to. At some point Im going to want to look different again and that is probably when I will shave.8.我长大后喜欢看着没有胡须的自己，因为我从来没看到过有胡须的自己是什么样子，并且在之前的很长的一段时间里我都没留过胡子。我喜欢改变自己的样子，就是因为这样所以我最终都会把胡须剃掉。在还有胡子时候我会很享受有胡子的我，因为我看起来和从前的我不一样。在某一时刻当我想剃掉胡子的时候可能就是我想变得和
29、之前不一样的时候。9. It is something that I can control. There is so much in Wuhan and in China as a whole that is completely out of my hands. Ordering food in a restaurant is often challenging because my skills in Chinese are limited. This means that often I can not even control something as simple as what
30、I have for lunch. I cant control simple interactions that back home I wouldnt have even thought about. My face though is my property. It belongs to me as much as anything in this world ever will. This face and what is on it are probably the one thing that I can dictate exclusively. Growing a beard a
31、nd keeping that beard gives me something that I can almost completely control. Or at least it gives me that sense of being in control of something.9.我的胡子我做主。在武汉以至于在整个中国，很多事都不在我的掌控之中。在餐厅里点菜经常是种挑战，因为我的中文水平不行。因此，我常常连自己的午餐吃什么这样的事都不能做主。我连简单的交流都不能控制，这种事在老家简直是不可想象的。不过，脸是我的私人财产，在这世界上也没几样东西属于我。这张脸，以及脸上附带的物事，
32、估计就是我唯一能够说一不二的东西了。长胡子和蓄胡子成了我能够完全做主的事情。或至少给我一种能主宰某些事情的感觉。10. There is something about China in general and Wuhan specifically that makes me feel lazy. I dont know if it is the dust in the air, the construction everywhere or the sloppiness of the way people here dress. But there is simply some quality
33、 to the social atmosphere here that makes me feel like letting go enough to not do little things like shave but instead grow a full, long, shaggy beard. 10. 在中国，尤其在武汉，总有些东西让我觉得慵懒。我不知道是不是因为空气中的浮尘，四周的喧闹工地，或者是人们衣着的随意。但这里社会氛围中的某种特性使我对什么事都不够在乎，连刮胡子这样的小事都不屑去做，而由它长出又浓又长且不修边幅的样子。Should Teachers Have Beards?
34、教师该不该留胡子？Is it ok to have a beard if you teach?教书的话留胡子好不好？Since I originally posted this hub I have actually shaved. A few weeks ago I had a class on job interviews. I was asked to dress nicely for this class. The morning of this class I put on a white button down shirt and a nice pair of dark slack
35、s. When I looked in the mirror I was astonished. I looked like a strange combination between an Amish person, a homeless derelict and a kool-aid pushing cult leader. I tried to trim the beard at first but ended up making things look worse. The only logical recourse I decided was to simply shave. I c
36、urrently have a neatly trimmed goatee. Though I will probably have a goatee for a while I will not likely ever grow a full beard again. Unless of course I do decide to move off into the woods and become a hermit or a cult leader. But those are very unlikely scenarios. 我开始贴这个话题以后其实已经剃过胡子了。几周前我教了一节关于工
37、作面试的课。上课前他们要求我着装要整齐些。当天早上我穿了件扣子扣到底的白色商务衬衫，还有一条深色的休闲裤。站在镜子前我大吃一惊。我看起来就像是被一个阿曼门诺派教徒、流浪汉和推销酷爱饮料的邪教教主附体的奇怪混合体。我试图先修理一下胡子，结果看起来更糟糕了。最终我只好无奈地剃掉了事。现在我长了一把精心修剪的山羊胡。尽管我会将这把山羊胡子保留一段时间，但我不会再蓄一脸长胡子了。当然，除非我决心远离尘嚣，遁入森林，成为方外高人或邪教教主。不过，这些都是不可能会出现的场景。（注：Kool Aid，酷爱牌饮料，一种以儿童为销售对象的饮料，具有令孩子们十分感兴趣的颜色和风味，还能变颜色。）Thinking
38、about appearances naturally leads to the question; “should teachers have beards?“ Personally I think this largely depends on the context of the situation and the individuals involved. For someone like myself who teaches in China the answer may well be different than for someone who teaches in public
39、 school in America. I believe that the real question isnt whether teachers should be allowed to grow beards but rather should they pay attention to their how they look and maintain professional appearances.? To this question I would say yes. I actually let my beard grow too long. It was unkempt and
40、unprofessional looking and I am half surprised that no one said anything to me about it. I believe that teachers with beards are fine but they should keep their beards well trimmed and they should strive to maintain a professional image.说到外观，自然会引到这个问题：“老师该不该留胡子？”我个人觉得这基本上得根据场合和与之有关的人而定。对于类似我这样在中国教书的
41、人和在美国公立学校教书的人来说，答案是不一样的。我认为问题的要点不在于是否允许教师长胡子，而是在于教师自身是否应该注重仪表，以及如何保持一个良好的职业形象？对于这点，我的回答是应该。实际上我的胡子留得是太长了点。这很不整洁，职业形象也不佳。令我惊讶的是没人就这事跟我提到过一丁点。我相信老师长胡子应该是可以的，但要注意修理整齐，同时要努力保持一个良好的职业形象。 By the way, shaving a beard causes just as much excitement among ESL students as growing one.顺带一句，剃胡子跟长胡子一样，在 ESL 学生当中
42、也会引起轰动。 hdast7 4 months ago from Atlanta, Georgia Level 8 Commenter Interesting and amusing and some unexpected commentary of facial hair. Very interesting observations about how the beard helped the students open up and converse more. I like your writing style easy to read. Welcome to HP. Check out
43、 my home page when you have time I am a teacher as well. :) SHARING WITH MY FOLLOWERS.很有意思，非常风趣，还有关于脸部毛发的出人意表的评论。另外关于胡子如何帮助学生开口说话的描述也很精彩。很喜欢你的文风，通俗易懂。欢迎来 HP 网站。有空到我的主页看看。我也是一名教师。：） 正在跟我的崇拜者分享（注：指他自己的学生）。John Sarkis 4 months ago from Los Angeles, CA Level 7 Commenter Very unique and unusual hub. I re
44、ally enjoyed your point of view on this matter.Voted up - welcome to HP John非常独特不凡的话题。非常欣赏你对这件事的观点。给你加分了-欢迎来到 HP 网站。Paul Kuehn 4 months ago from Bangkok, Thailand Level 6 Commenter As an EFL teacher in Thailand, beards arent allowed in most schools. If a beard is kept clean and trimmed, I have no pr
45、oblem with teachers having them as long as school administration approves. Yes, I can see how having a beard can be a good conversation starter. The same might apply to tattoes. Are teachers in China allowed to expose tattoes in the classroom? They cant in Thailand. This is a good, interesting hub.我
46、是一名在泰国的 EFL 教师。这里大多数的学校不允许留胡子。只要学校同意可以留胡子，我跟长胡子的教师在一起没有问题，如果他们的胡子能保持清洁和整齐。是的，我觉得长胡子可以有助于开启话题。纹身或许也有同样效果。中国允许教师在课堂上暴露纹身吗？在泰国是不允许的。这个话题很好，很有趣。Wesley Meacham 4 months ago from Shreveport, Louisiana and Wuhan, China Hub Author Tattoos dont seem to be a major problem. I had a friend last year from Canada
47、 who had a tattoo on his wrist. I guess he could have covered it but he never did. He worked at a Primary school here. I recall him telling me that his students would ask questions about what it was or whether it would come off. Ive been told by others that the restrictions in Thailand are greater t
48、han they are in most of China. The same has been mentioned to me about South Korea. At the present moment though Ive not been to either country. It would also probably depend on the city youre in. From what Ive been told the major cities like Beijing and Shanghai are much more competitive and would
49、probably also have greater restrictions.博主回复：纹身似乎不是一个重大问题。我去年一个来自加拿大的朋友身上就有纹身，纹身在他的手腕处。我想他可以把它隐藏起来，但他从来没有。他在这儿的一所小学。我记得他告诉我，他的学生们会问的问题那个是什么或它会不会脱落。我被其他人告知，泰国的限制比中国大部分地方要多。同时也向我提及韩国。目前，虽然我没有没去过其他国家。这也可能取决于你所在城市。据我所知，大城市如北京和上海竞争更激烈，也可能限制更多。Wesley Meacham 4 months ago from Shreveport, Louisiana and Wuhan, China Hub Author Thank you.博主回复：谢谢。Wesley Meacham 4 months ago from Shreveport, Louisiana and Wuhan, China Hub Author Thank you. Im reading your homepage now.博主回复：谢谢你。正在拜读你的主页。quickbooker 4 months ago from Gurgaon, India When I seen your hub topic, it seem
