时间:2019-01-16 作者:英语课 分类:2017年NPR美国国家公共电台12月


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History is written by the winners. So when power is shared, there's often a tug 1 of war over the past. That's what's happening in Hong Kong, which has enjoyed a degree of political autonomy since Great Britain returned control of that city to China 20 years ago. NPR's Rob Schmitz reports on the push to teach the Communist Party's version of history in schools.


ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE 2: The last time China pressured Hong Kong to scrap 3 its curriculum in favor of one developed by China's Communist Party-led government, this happened.


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UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Shouting in foreign language).


UNIDENTIFIED CROWD: (Shouting in foreign language).


SCHMITZ: In the summer of 2012, tens of thousands marched through the city chanting down with national education. After protesters besieged 4 government headquarters for 10 days, officials backed down.


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UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Shouting in foreign language).


UNIDENTIFIED CROWD: (Shouting in foreign language).


SCHMITZ: But now the government is back with a plan to revamp how history is taught in Hong Kong's secondary schools. History teacher Cheung Siu-Chung says he's worried about the changes. The new curriculum is missing key parts of modern Chinese history, like Hong Kong's 1967 riots between communists and British rulers and the Tiananmen Square massacre 5 of 1989 when Chinese troops killed hundreds of unarmed pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing.


CHEUNG SIU-CHUNG: (Through interpreter) These are crucial parts of history being taken out. Teachers are asking what the rationale is behind this, and our own deputy secretary of education said these parts of history are trivial, so we don't need to teach them. She literally 6 said that.


SCHMITZ: The new proposed history curriculum would go into effect in two years. It would require schools to spend more time teaching students about China's modern history from the communist revolution in 1949 through its transformation 7 to an authoritarian 8 capitalist powerhouse today. The curriculum carefully removes or skims over events deemed sensitive by China's Communist Party, like Mao's failed political campaigns that left tens of millions dead, as well as uprisings like Tiananmen, leaving it to teachers to decide whether they'll have the time to teach these events. Hong Kong legislator Alvin Yeung is afraid teachers won't.


ALVIN YEUNG NGOK KIU: I don't mind students being taught the developments and constructions and the achievements modern China has achieved. It's fine. Economically, they have done a great job, but on the other hand, I expect the students to be taught on what happened in the Cultural Revolution and also Tiananmen Square in 1989.


SCHMITZ: Fellow Hong Kong legislator Tanya Chan says the struggle over education in Hong Kong is the latest battle with China over how the city is governed.


TANYA CHAN: These kind of confrontation 9 will get worse and worse. But of course, at the same time, if we feel more and more vulnerable, than the control from the Chinese government over us will become stronger and stronger.


SCHMITZ: On a weekday afternoon in the Hong Kong neighborhood of Mong Kok, uniformed students stream out of schools for a half hour of freedom before heading to nighttime cram 10 schools. Timothy Ng is among them. The 17-year-old says history is one of his least favorite classes - too much focus on regurgitation of facts. He says he learned more about China in literature class when he read George Orwell's dystopian novel "1984."


TIMOTHY NG: So basically it's a very good reflection of the modern society we are having today, especially in the Chinese context.


SCHMITZ: Fellow student Matthew Chu says he and his class were on the verge 11 of a history lesson last year when fellow students began handing out pamphlets.


MATTHEW CHU: They gave some information about Hong Kong should be separated from China in front of our school and give to our students. And then the teacher called them to go into a room and then talk.


SCHMITZ: When they came out of the room, the students had been disciplined. And that, says Chu, was the last he and his classmates heard about Hong Kong independence at school. He says it was one of the best history lessons he's had. Rob Schmitz, NPR News, Hong Kong.


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v.用力拖(或拉);苦干;n.拖;苦干;拖船
  • We need to tug the car round to the front.我们需要把那辆车拉到前面。
  • The tug is towing three barges.那只拖船正拖着三只驳船。
n.署名;v.署名
  • His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
  • We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。
n.碎片;废料;v.废弃,报废
  • A man comes round regularly collecting scrap.有个男人定时来收废品。
  • Sell that car for scrap.把那辆汽车当残品卖了吧。
包围,围困,围攻( besiege的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Paris was besieged for four months and forced to surrender. 巴黎被围困了四个月后被迫投降。
  • The community besieged the newspaper with letters about its recent editorial. 公众纷纷来信对报社新近发表的社论提出诘问,弄得报社应接不暇。
n.残杀,大屠杀;v.残杀,集体屠杀
  • There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.在战争中,这里的村民惨遭屠杀。
  • If we forget the massacre,the massacre will happen again!忘记了大屠杀,大屠杀就有可能再次发生!
adv.照字面意义,逐字地;确实
  • He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
  • Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候,她不走到真正要昏厥了,决不肯坐下来。
n.变化;改造;转变
  • Going to college brought about a dramatic transformation in her outlook.上大学使她的观念发生了巨大的变化。
  • He was struggling to make the transformation from single man to responsible husband.他正在努力使自己由单身汉变为可靠的丈夫。
n./adj.专制(的),专制主义者,独裁主义者
  • Foreign diplomats suspect him of authoritarian tendencies.各国外交官怀疑他有着独裁主义倾向。
  • The authoritarian policy wasn't proved to be a success.独裁主义的政策证明并不成功。
n.对抗,对峙,冲突
  • We can't risk another confrontation with the union.我们不能冒再次同工会对抗的危险。
  • After years of confrontation,they finally have achieved a modus vivendi.在对抗很长时间后,他们最后达成安宁生存的非正式协议。
v.填塞,塞满,临时抱佛脚,为考试而学习
  • There was such a cram in the church.教堂里拥挤得要命。
  • The room's full,we can't cram any more people in.屋里满满的,再也挤不进去人了。
n.边,边缘;v.接近,濒临
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • She was on the verge of bursting into tears.她快要哭出来了。
学英语单词
abreuvage
acute proliferative miliary tuberculosis of lung
algarovilla
As you brew,so shall you One must drink as one brews .
baseline-plus forecast
beetroot-reds
bio-energetics
bismuthotartrate
Blessed Virgin Mary
brittanys
bud rot
c-note
Carex dailingensis
cauk
civex
clovenfooted
cometabolism
conceptual schema
dance with the wolves
datalinks
de-ionate
defining standard thermometer
diarrhoeal
dichlorodihydrofluorescein
Dicranostigma leptopodum
difficult of
distance to new course
diving beetle
dolinas
double air pump
employment income deduction
engineering procedure
erythrina alkaloid
Fabian system
fault in management or navigation
fault-lines
Feng Youlan
fission chainateial
Frankenstein monster
free economic regime
glissonian cirrhosis
gras
ground fracturing
GT (gas turbine)
hopkins process
internal drift current
keyed to
Kizhinga
kocinski
labor productivity based on quantity
Lau R.
leader-follower game
libcrypt
long-leaved yellow pine
manipulandum
mean tolerance limit
medium wave receiver
Mescalero
Mobutu
motivities
non-electrolyte solution
non-favorable
nuclear models
old age dependency ratio
on pump
optical viewing system
outground
PJAK
Pre-white
process-bound
proplasmacyte
protein extract
protowords
pyrazinobutazone
QST
relenquyssh
restraining excessiveness to acquire harmony
Rougnon-Heberden disease
sanctioned by usage
seal someone's fate
second-order servo
sentence-initials
she-bears
shut-down cooling
sliding door status indication
spises
sub-specialty
subluxated
syndrome of dampness-heat blocking collaterals
T-bar lift
thiounn
three-five compound (iii-v compound)
toad-smoking
tomjohn
treatin
urticarial
vibroacoustic
warmer-upper
water plant aquatic plant
wiech
willem i
yornyman