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But if you're not a native speaker, you have to pass a test.
如果你的母語不是英語的話，你要通過一個考試。
Now can it be right to reject a student on linguistic ability alone?
那么僅僅根據(jù)學(xué)生的語言能力就拒絕一個學(xué)生的做法合適嗎？
Perhaps you have a computer scientist who's a genius.
也許你們中一個計算機科學(xué)家是一個天才。
Would he need the same language as a lawyer, for example? Well, I don't think so.
那例如，他需要有和律師一樣的語言能力嗎？我并不這么認為。
We English teachers reject them all the time.
我們做英語老師的總是否定他們。
We put a stop sign, and we stop them in their tracks.
我們放置一個禁止通行的標(biāo)志，我們在他們的發(fā)展軌道上擋住了他們。
They can't pursue their dream any longer, 'til they get English.
他們不能繼續(xù)追尋他們的夢想，除非他們掌握了英語。
Now let me put it this way: if I met a monolingual Dutch speaker who had the cure for cancer,
現(xiàn)在我這么說吧，如果我遇到一個只會說荷蘭語的人，他能治愈癌癥，
would I stop him from entering my British University? I don't think so.
我會阻止他進入英國大學(xué)嗎？我想不可能。
But indeed, that is exactly what we do. We English teachers are the gatekeepers.
但是事實上，我們正是這樣做的。我們英語老師是把關(guān)的。
And you have to satisfy us first that your English is good enough.
你得先令我們滿意，你的英語要足夠好。
Now it can be dangerous to give too much power to a narrow segment of society.
這就可能很危險，把很多權(quán)力交給了社會的一個窄小的團體。
Maybe the barrier would be too universal. Okay.
可能這個造成的障礙影響面就太廣了。好吧。
"But," I hear you say, "what about the research? It's all in English."
“但是”，我聽見你們說，“那科研呢？它們都是用的英語。”
So the books are in English, the journals are done in English, but that is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
書是英語的，研究刊物是英語的，但是這是一個自我實現(xiàn)的假定。
It feeds the English requirement. And so it goes on.
它正好符合需要英語的條件。于是它就繼續(xù)這樣發(fā)展下去。
