时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:TED演讲教育篇


英语课

   The children came running in. It was three feet off the ground, and they said, "What is this?" 孩子们跑了进来。电脑离地面有3英尺,他们问:“这是什么?”


  And I said, "Yeah, it's, I don't know. So..."  我说:“唔,这是……我不知道。”
  They said, "Why have you put it there?" 他们问:“为什么你把它放在那儿?”
  I said, "Just like that." 我说:“就那样。”
  And they said, "Can we touch it?"I said, "If you wish to." 然后他们说:“我们可以摸一下吗?”我说:“如果你们愿意的话。”
  And I went away. About eight hours later, we found them browsing 1 and teaching 2 each other how to browse 3.  然后我走开了。大概过了8小时以后,我发现他们在上网冲浪并相互教对方如何浏览网页。
  So I said, "Well that's impossible, because -- How is it possible? They don't know anything." 于是我说:“这不可能,因为……这怎么可能?他们什么都不知道。”
  My colleagues 4 said, "No, it's a simple solution. One of your students must have been passing by, showed them how to use the mouse." 我同事说:“不,答案很简单。一定是你哪个学生经过,给他们演示了如何使用鼠标。”
  So I said, "Yeah, that's possible." 于是我说:“对,那有可能。”
  So I repeated the experiment.  我于是重复了这个实验。
  I went 300 miles out of Delhi into a really remote village where the chances of a passing software development engineer was very little.  我跑去离开德里300英里的一个偏远的村子,在这里,偶然路过一个软件开发工程师的概率极低。
  I repeated the experiment there.  我就在那里重复了实验。
  There was no place to stay, so I stuck my computer in, I went away, came back after a couple of months, found kids playing games on it. 那里没有地方能让我住下来,所以我装好电脑就走了,几个月之后才回来,我发现几个小孩在上面玩游戏。

1 browsing
v.吃草( browse的现在分词 );随意翻阅;(在商店里)随便看看;(在计算机上)浏览信息
  • He sits browsing over[through] a book. 他坐着翻阅书籍。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Cattle is browsing in the field. 牛正在田里吃草。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 teaching
n.教学,执教,任教,讲授;(复数)教诲
  • We all agree in adopting the new teaching method. 我们一致同意采取新的教学方法。
  • He created a new system of teaching foreign languages.他创造了一种新的外语教学体系。
3 browse
vi.随意翻阅,浏览;(牛、羊等)吃草
  • I had a browse through the books on her shelf.我浏览了一下她书架上的书。
  • It is a good idea to browse through it first.最好先通篇浏览一遍。
4 colleagues
n.同事,同僚( colleague的名词复数 );同人
  • He wanted to confer with his colleagues before reaching a decision. 他想与他的同事先商议一下再作出决定。
  • She is held in high esteem by her colleagues. 她深受同事的敬重。
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