这两个星期以来过得非常忙碌与充实。自己好像是侠士一样在各种各样的事情及学习里不停地作战，从班里订书开始一直到现在的出游计划，还有我的一个多月后就要来临的雅思，及英语角的开幕，都让我头疼不已。后天还要去香格里拉酒店做美国大学教育展的现场翻译，也得准备半天。
日子虽然忙，但也过得还算好，因为有一大帮人还背后默默地支持帮助我，在这里真的要非常感谢他们！首先是女班刘滢帮我分担了好多工作，我知道她在忙班服的设计及制做，也很头疼，连我的英语角管理员的队服也要麻烦她了，真的有点不好意思。另外班委黄燕明也让我非常感动，对于班集出游的计划，她打算去海边，并写了好详细的agenda， 这肯定花了她不少精力与时间，但最后是否可以实施，还得看同学们是否选她的路线。不过不管如何，有这么负责的班委，我们全体金融四班的同学都要感到自豪！至于去做兼职，需要西装西裤和皮鞋，我却没有。真的好感谢洪欢的衣了，还有华瑞的皮鞋，才可以让我渡过难关，感激之情真的无以为报~~~至于英语角管理员的队服的图案设计，真的感谢研一的陈贵壹师兄花了一个多小时帮我们设计了一个超流行而且醒目的图案，我非常期待衬衫做好的那天~~~另外还要感谢竹静！星期天由于我的翻译工作缘故可能不能及时赶回来主持英语角，所以需要她帮忙主持前一部分！虽然她一直对我说她好紧张怕弄砸了我的英语角，可是我却对她百分百的信心。根据大学三年我对她的了解，我相信她一定会做好的，可能比我做得还好！哈哈！
深圳大学 赖小琪
The weather is changing swiftly these days. It is just like the face of the baby that is giggling happily for the moment while crying stiff right round the corner. Yesterday it was scorching like fire, but today it was chilly to death and raining cats and dogs. I was totally wet through when I dashed to the canteen on the bike with my seeming fragile umbrella against the wildly punching raindrops. How piteous and embarrassed I was then when I finally arrived under the roof of the canteen and saw my damped pants and shoes!
This afternoon I had no classes. Originally I had thought that I could have a sound rest after these tough days of piled work. However when some task was over, there would always be another following tightly, leaving no room for you to switch your breath. After being the monitor of my class, numerous trifles and events flock to me and swamp me over. I have to cope with a variety of affairs and contact all kinds of people ranging from students to teachers, from people inside our school to those outside working. My circle of friends has been greatly enlarged. Especially, as I am the host of the English corner that is held on a weekly basis, I have become well-known all over my campus. Every week some teachers will advertise my English corner on our school web so that it can reach a large group of students. Many students, including those who have attended my English corner and those who have not, think that I am exceptional in English. Each time they chat with me, whether in English or not, they tend to praise me high to the sky, which makes me terribly awkward and shamed for the reason that I am not that super as I appear to others. All I can say is that I am a little more than so-so or I am a little above the average level of the ordinary students. This is by no means humility. Compared with those English majors and expert students, including those who have participated in some giant competitions and got a shiny award, I feel so tiny to talk about myself. That is precisely the pushing force driving me mad about English all the way. I deeply know that it is out of the question for me to become the best, but it is thoroughly possible for me to be better!
Therefore, many times I am reluctant to compare my English level or score with others’. It does not mean that I admit I am inferior to my counterparts and dare not rival them. It is just a matter of self-keeping. Score does not represent everything. Some may get a high score in the exam but have low ability. Some may get a relatively lower score but can skillfully put English in place. So which one is more favorable to us? Definitely the latter one! A typical case is that in China most students learn merely dumb-English, which means that can listen, read and write, but hardly speak. Without speaking, one’s English is likened to a bird without wings, a tiger without teeth and a fish without fins. It is evidently seen in some national English tests like CET4 or CET6, which do not compulsorily require the students to take oral test. So getting a high score in such kind of exams does not prove strongly that you have a sound English skills and capability, but can only assert that apart from speaking, the other three skills are super. So I am inclined to take some authoritative exams to prove to others my English level, like BEC, IELTs, TOFEL, etc. They are all testing your real English ability from various perspectives, leaving little room for you to take a chance to get high score without authentic capability. That is also the key reason why increasing amount of enterprises acknowledge the certificates of these exams, which push numerous students hasten to them rapidly.
Many people favor to ask me how to learn English well. The most common question they ask me is whether there are some shortcuts to have an instant and good command of English without toiling along the way of learning so toughly. To me, such kind of question really seems ludicrous and silly. Suppose there are really some shortcuts I know to learn English without paying so much effort, why do I keep memorizing vocabulary every day? Why do compose articles or essays on a regular basis? Why do I buy various English books to broaden my horizon? Why do I keep the habit of listening to the VOA or BBC or CNN news every day? If you know my way of learning, you will never ask me the question about shortcuts. “no pains, no gains” is perpetually right through the whole process of human history.
Hence, I do not believe some advertisements that are publicly claims that a certain organization or prominent English expert can help you greatly improve English in a 30 or 60days. Even, some may allege confidently that they can help you speak fluent English in 15 or even fewer days even if you have an extremely limited glossary! Is it really that magic? More often than not, when seeing such kind of advertisements, I simply laugh it off. I can definitely say that it is sheer impossible! If they are really that magically powerful, why are there still an ocean of people seeking their way out to master English? Everyone can be a genius in English! That is really ridiculous! If you want to gain something, remember, first, you have to pay double, triple, even more!
So if you are still feeling puzzled about English and seeking painstakingly the so-called shortcut to learn, you had better give it up and do step by step. Only by learning delicately and systematically can you finally reach the culmination you are looking forward to! |
