深圳大学 赖小琪
各位同学：
大家好！今天在百忙中抽空给大家写下这封“告别信”， 心中感情无比复杂，喜忧参半！喜是因为我知道，你们都在这个BEC的班里收获了很多东西：你们学习英语的积极性，你们的词汇量，你们的口语水平（特别是辩论水平）还有你们的听力都得到了很大的提高（至少我这么认为）！忧是因为我们的课程还有两次课就要结束了，我们的“师生”关系就要画上圆满的句点，我的心中感到非常的不舍！
Hi everyone! Tonight I squeeze some time from my busy schedule to write you this “farewell letter”. Now my heart is filled with complicated feelings, half happy and half sad. I am happy because I know you have reaped tremendously in this BEC course. Your motivation to learn English, your vocabulary, your oral English level especially your debating skills, and your listening ability have all greatly been elevated. However, I feel sad because there are merely two classes left before our course come to an end, which means our teacher-and-student relationship will be concluded soon! How reluctant I feel to leave all of you!
你们知道吗？自从我接手你们班开始，我就感到较大的压力。虽然这不是我第一次教BEC了，可是以前教的都是校外的成年人，而这次教的大部分是深大的学生，我在不停地思考着我的方法究竟适不适合你们，是否需要做出调整。当我给你们上了第一节课时，我发现你们的水平整体来讲都是比较高的。
I do now know whether you know I have been feeling somewhat great pressure since I took over this BEC class. Though it is not my first time to teach BEC, it is actually the first time I teach the students in my university. In the past I taught the adults who had already worked. I have been turning over whether my previous methods are still applicable to you and therefore make some adjustments. When I gave my firs class to you, I rejoiced that the overall level of your English was comparatively high!
随着我们教学的展开，部分同学的英语能力超乎我的想像，学习的悟性也很高，这让我感到无比的欣喜。比如说我们的大三的英语专业的张济元同学，上个月参加CCTV杯英语演讲比赛得了深圳大学一等奖，在广州的总决赛中得了广东省的三等奖；再比如说毛丽婷和林燕玲两位同学，在辩论中总是搭配得相当出色，观点分明，而且在每次的听力测试中都得很高分……
With my teaching activity spreading, some of you are really excellent in English that it is far beyond my imagination. And your talent to learn English is also appreciable that it makes me feel overjoyed. For instance, Mr Zhang, a junior student majoring in English, participated in the CCTV Cup National Speaking Competition and won the first prize in our school! Then he went to Guangzhou to battle out with other talents, ending with the third prize in Guangdong Province. Another two super students are Ms Mao and Ms Lin, who performed wonderfully in each debating practice and listening test.
每个同学的面孔我都记得清，大家的努力我也可以看得到！虽然每次听写专业词汇都有同学不及格，虽然每次听写歌曲都有同学听不出来，可是我对你们的要求是比较高的，作业也比较多，所以就算你不及格了，其实你也比很多备考BEC的同学学得多！还有些同学我知道你们是很努力学习的，可是每次听力测试和辩论都表现平平，甚至处于相对劣势中，但是我想对你们说：不要紧的！因为你们经历过的阶段，我也经历过，班上优秀的同学也经历过！只要你们以后锲而不舍地学习，在不久的将来你一定会脱茧成蝶，在英语的天空中飞得如此地灿烂，飞得如此地娇美，飞得如此地自由！
Every face of yours has been deep engraved in my mind. I am witnessing your constant endeavor. Even though some of you did not pass the vocabulary dictation test or the song dictation test, you are still far more brilliant than many others, because my requirements on you are really strict and harsh, accompanied with piles of homework. I know some of you have been working extremely hard, but did not perform well in each listening test and debating practice. But now I want to tell you that it does not matter because the tough you are suffering now has been exactly suffered by me in the past! So long as you persist in learning, in the near future, you will definitely struggle out of the cocoon and turn into a beautiful butterfly flying gracefully, delicately and freely in the air!
我经常对你们说的一句话，同时也是我的座右铭：Losing is nothing, but learning is something! 在学习英语的路途中，我们不可太“功利”！这里的“功利”和我们生活中的“功利”是不同的！这里的“功利”指的是不要急于求成，一定要踏踏实实，稳步前进，认真地积累每一个单词，每一个知识点，每一个好句子，每一篇好文章，只有这样，你才能够把你的基本功打扎实，为你以后英语达到出神入化的地步做好铺垫！我们常说：万丈高楼平地起。一个人学英语，如果不能把语法弄通，把每个所学单词的用法灵活掌握，是不可能把英语运用自如的。当你可以忘掉一切全身心地投入到学习中去的时候，半年或者一年以后，你就会发现你的水平已经跃到另一个层次上了！
I often tell you my motto that losing is nothing, but learning is something. In the course of learning English, we should not be too “profit-focused”! Here, the word “profit-focused” connotes that we should walk every solid step steadily towards our goal instead of yearning for instant success! We should intently accumulate every word, every knowledge point, every good sentence and every good article! Only by doing so can we lay down a solid foundation for your super English achievements. There is a common saying that every skyscraper is built from the ground. If you cannot have a good command of grammar as well as precise usage of each word you’ve learnt, it is out of the question for you to use English flexibly. If you can totally concentrate on your learning, in half a year or one year, you will suddenly realize that your English level has leapt to another stage!
毋庸置疑，你们在英语上花的时间都比一般的同学多，然而要注意的是，你们还得更加用功，当然，我也一样。路漫漫其修远兮，吾将上下而求索。既然我们不能生活在英美国家的纯英语环境中，那么我们就应该主动地为自己创造一个纯英语的环境。天天坚持上校园网的CNN或者BBC听二十分钟，在你无聊玩游戏时拿本英语书或者上网看几篇英语文章，深夜把你聊QQ的时间空出来写一篇简短的文章或者英文日记，早晨早点起床到文山湖读半个小时的书……充分把你的零碎时间利用好了，你就已经比别人走远了很多很多！当你抱怨没有时间学英语时，其实说明了两个问题：第一，你对英语的爱好没有达到浓厚的境界；第二，你没有把浪费的时间充分利用起来。
Needless to say, generally speaking, the time you spend on English is more than others do. Whereas, what I want to mention is that you need to work harder, so do I myself. The way is too long to finish and we all need to strive! Since we are not living in the pure English-speaking environment, we need to create this environment by ourselves. Keep listening to CNN or BBC for twenty minutes per day, reading some English article on books or online when you are playing games, reserving some time for composing a short article or diary when you are chatting on QQ, getting up early in the morning to read half an hour by the lake. If you can make full use of the time you waste every day, then you have already gone farther than many others. But when you complain that you have no time to study English, it can illustrate two problems: one is that your interest in English is not strong enough to sustain your passion; the other is that you are unable to manage and use your time properly.
BEC的课程快结束了，12月初你们就要踏上真正的战场，BEC中级考试就要到来了。在剩下的备考时间里，希望你们以做题和练口语为主，记单词为辅，创造属于你们自己的辉煌！我相信我们班的同学过的机会还是挺大的，一定会有同学考B甚至A以上！不管你们最后考试的结果如何，都要第一时间告诉我哦！考过了，我替你们高兴；考差了，我为你们加勉，起码你进步了不少！考出好成绩了，比如说深圳市状元在我们班了（这还是有很大可能的！），那我就成了名师了，哈哈！
Our BEC course will soon come to an end. At the beginning of December you will step on the battlefield to fight. During the remaining time, I hope you can shift your focus to doing more exercise and oral English practice, and if allowed, remember more words. I believe most of you can pass the exam, and some of you may even get B or A! But no matter what your score might be, you will inform me of the result at knowing it! If you pass successfully, I feel happy for you from the bottom of my heart! But if you fail unfortunately, I will give my best encouragement to you for at least you have progressed a lot! If you can get a good score hopefully, say, if you are exactly the No.1 in our city (It is still possible!), then I will become a distinguished teacher immediately! Aha!
大家有机会在同一个班里，就是缘份！希望你们可以相互珍惜你们的缘份，以后可以相互帮助！最后，我在这里祝大家身体健康，在英语学习的路上走得更好更远！
It is destined for us to stay in the same class! So I hope you can cherish your precious relationship and give each other a hand when needed in the future! Finally, I want to extend my best wishes to all of you! I hope you can keep a good shape and stride farther and better in the way of learning English! |
