因为美国大学里发生了一些奇妙的事情，而哈佛大学英语教授路易斯·梅南很巧妙地捕捉到了这一点。
For something curious has been happening in American universities, and Louis Menand, a professor of English at Harvard University, captured it skillfully.
松散的管理允许印尼儿童到私立学校读书。 而私立学校并不遵循国立课程，而是教授英语。
Regulations were loosened, allowing Indonesian children to attend private schools that did not follow the national curriculum, but offered English.
国人学英语总喜欢那些文人墨客的东西，押韵啦，填词啦，习语啦，这一方面是因为学英语的“顶层”是学文学的教授们，另一方面是培养的目标是翻译，而不是双语的应用。
The latter one, i.e. , the goal of learning English is for translation, not for bilingual use, is a problem we can change: the goal of learning English should be bilingual use.
斯坦福大学教授莱拉·博格迪特斯基表示，世界上大约有三分之一的语言在谈论空间时会使用这样的绝对方位词，而不是像英语一样使用相对方位词。
According to Stanford professor Lera Boroditsky, about a third of the world's languages discuss space in absolute terms like this rather than the relative ones we use in English.
我认为最好的教授，在更大的城市，还有一些外国人混在一起，而不是一个小城镇里的英语教师经常抱怨的感觉就像一个金鱼在一碗。
I think it 's best to teach, in a bigger city where there are other foreigners to mix with, rather than a small town where English teachers often complain of feeling like a goldfish in a bowl.
我认为最好的教授，在更大的城市，还有一些外国人混在一起，而不是一个小城镇里的英语教师经常抱怨的感觉就像一个金鱼在一碗。
I think it 's best to teach, in a bigger city where there are other foreigners to mix with, rather than a small town where English teachers often complain of feeling like a goldfish in a bowl.
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