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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
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