耶鲁大学校园英语情景对话28：雅礼协会（mp3+中英）

K: (Holding a loudspeaker) Attention, please! Every student, if you are eager to enlarge your horizon and enrich your boring spare time, but you cannot find a proper place to let out your depressed impulse, OK, now it’s high time that you resorted to us-our university’s various students? unions, where, once you are involved in, there will be a lot of opportunities for you to have a large circle of friends very soon!

K:同学们注意啦，如果你们想扩展视野，丰富你们无聊的闲暇时间，但是又苦于找 不到含适的场所发泄你们压抑的冲动，那么是时候向我们学校协会伸出求肋信号 了，一旦你们加入了学校协会，那么很快你就会有绝好的机会扩大你们的交际圈。

E: Excuse me, I am a freshman here, but I am not familiar with the current school life, so most of the time I just have nothing meaningful to do except learning. However， learning all the time sometimes makes me feel depressed and lack a sense of interest. So I am looking for a chance to change this kind of life state...

E:不好意思，我是大一新生，对学校的现状还不是很熟悉，所以大部分时间我都是 在学校，但是老是学习使我很压抑而且缺少兴趣，所以我想改变一下现状……

K: OK, I have understood your trouble, but don’t worry about that, because what you are encountering now is very common among the freshman, and that’s why we are here to help you, to some degree. As you know, our university has established different kinds of students’ associations, most of them are founded according to the students’ interests. When you really join, you will taste the great joy and delight in the activities held regularly in our campus.

K:好的，我明白你的问题了，请不用担心，因为你遇到的正是在新同学中司空见惯 的问题，_定程度上我们可以帮你们解决这个难题。如你所知，学校成立了很多 社团，大部分都是根据学生的兴趣建立的，当你真正地加入其中后，你会发现校园里定期举行的这些活动会给你带来很多乐趣。

E: Since you have told me so many benefits of your associations, can you tell more details about them by giving me one specific example? Because I have not grasped the real advantages of them...

E:既然你给我说了那么多社团的优 点，那能否绾我举个具体的例子 说明一下呢？因为我没有真正的 理解它们的益处……

K： Well, I am so sorry about that, I know what I am saying gives you a kind of feeling of blowing my horn ' . So I can explain the details about one association. For example, the English Speaking Society aims at practicing and improving your spoken English. Every week，we will hold this activity in the form of an English Comer to attract the students to join us, so everybody can communicate and express their ideas and thoughts freely and relaxed...

K:很抱歉，我说的话给你造成了一 种自吹自檑的感觉，那我就给举 一个实际的例子吧。比如，我们的 英语协会每周会举行类似像个英语角的活动，吸引各位同学加入其中，畅所欲言。

E： Uh, now I got what you said. It is just a big difference between the ASSOCIATION that is in my mind and one that is in your mouth. Besides, as for the association in my mind, in fact, I myself don't know about it, either. I just heard it from my friend and did a little search on the Internet. At the moment I am having a walk, and coincidently I came across your activity which, I thought, would give me a hand for my perplexity. However, when you explained to me, it is simply far from relevant to that!

E:哦，现在我明白你的意思了。我所想的协会和你说的这些协会有很大的区别呢。 其实，对于我想知道的协会情况我本身也不了解，只是从朋友那里听到过并且做 过一些搜索工作。那会儿我正在散步，碰巧遇到你们这个话动，我本以为可以从 你们那里得到解答，不过你们说的与我想知道的相差甚远……

K: ... Uh, I feel rather sorry not being able to give you some valuable information, but can you tell me what kind of association you want to know. Only after you tell me，can I know from which aspect I can solve your problem

K:很抱歉没能结你提供一些有价值的信息，但是你能否告诉我你想知道的那个协会 名称呢，只有这样我才能知道我应该从哪方面帮肋你呀。

E: Oh, the Association that I mentioned just now is Yali-China Association.Will you have a chance to hear about it?

E:哦，是雅礼协会，你听到过这个名称吗？

K: Yali-China Association, let me see. (Kevin falls into the thought) Ah, with Yali-China Association, do you refer to that organization which is founded in China, but with its headquarters in America?

K:雅礼协会，我想想看啊，你指的是那个在中国成立，但是总部在美国的那个组织 吗？

E: Wow, you do know about that. That’s great. So can you do me a favor to tell me more about this association, because I have to finish a survey of it as my mid-term paper, which seems to me a hot potato for such a long time.

E:哇，你知道这个呀，太棒了，那你能告诉我更多的信息吗，因为我要完成这学期 的期中调查问卷，这个问题困扰了我好长一段时间了。

K: Well, you know what, that’s a real coincidence. For one of my foreign friends comes from Yale University, now he is studying in China. We keep contact with each other frequently, and he also tells me a lot about Yali-China Association. The Yale-China Association, founded in 1901，is a private, noNPRofit organization with more than a century of experience contributing to the development of education in and about China and to the furtherance of understanding between Chinese and American people. The Yale-China Association was first incorporated as the Yale Foreign Missionary Society, and was known informally as Yale-in-China as early as 1913. It was nondenominadonal from its beginnings and by the 1920s had ceased to be an overtly missionary enterprise. It was re-incorporated in 1934 as a secular organization, the Yale-in-China Association, and in 1975 as the Yale-China Association. At the urging of the home office in New Havn City of New Haven Seal as well as other missionaries in China, the Yale Mission early on assumed more of an educational than evangelical function.

K:嗯，你知道吗，这太巧含了，我正好有一个美国的朋友，他现在正在中国读书， 我们经常保持联系，所以他给我讲了很多关于雅礼协会的事情。雅礼协会建于1901年，是一个私立的非盈利性的组织，有着100多年的历史，它 促进了中国教育的发展，增进了中美两国人民的感情。雅礼协会是第一个注册 的外国传教士协会，并且早在1913年就认作为非正式的耶鲁大学在中国的协会。 从_开始它就与宗教无关，直到20世纪20年代才终止了公开传教组织的身份。 在1934年重新注册为非宗教组织，命名为耶鲁一中国协会，1975年更名为雅礼 协会。协同在中国的其他传教机构和纽黑文总部的崛起，耶鲁早就被认为是承载 着教育而非教会功能的机构。

E: Wow, I don’t know how to express my gratitude to you. You know so much about it that I just cannot write down all of them, because all of the information is quite useful so that I don’t know which part I should omit and which part I should note down. Here, I，ve got an idea. Can we make an appointment some other time if it is convenient for you, so we can have more time to talk? In addition, today, you have told me quite a lot about it and you must be very tired and thirsty...

E:哇，我真不知道怎么表达我的感激之情！你说得真够详细的，我都来不及记录下 来了。因为这所有的信息都很有用，所以我不知道该删减或者该记录哪一部分了。 我有个想法，方便的话，我们何不约个时间呢？这样我们可以有更多的时间来 聊了。而且，你今天绾我讲了这么多肯定也又累又渴了……

K: OK, that sounds nice. And we’d better find another time and place to share so much information about Yali-China Association...
 

K:嗯，听上去不错。我们最好找个时间和地点分享下关于雅礼协会的信息……