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Ok, folks. Welcome everybody to this presentation this morning.
大家好，歡迎大家光臨今天上午的演講
I hope everyone has some food; it's there and it's to sort of calm you down and welcome you into the morning.
希望大家都吃了點東西，餐點就在那，能讓大家平靜一些，迎接這個早上
It's a very civilized way to begin a talk, I think.
我想這是一個很文明的開始演講的方式
So help yourself to the food and enjoy it.
所以大家隨意，吃點東西
We're so happy to have Dr. Mike Chapman with us today.
今天非常高興能請到麥克·查普曼博士到場
And because he's a Suffolk graduate, that one of the reasons,actualy he was a good student
他是薩福克大學(xué)的校友，這是一個原因，在校期間他是個好學(xué)生
actually he was an outstanding student And the faculty who taught him have all told me that.
其實是個非常出色的學(xué)生，教過他的教授都跟他這么說過
And then he went on to B.C. another school in the area and got a PhD there.
畢業(yè)之后他去了這附近的波士頓大學(xué)，在那兒拿到了博士學(xué)位
And now he's teaching at Peking University.
現(xiàn)在他任教于北京大學(xué)
Peking University is probably, is known as the Harvard of China.
北京大學(xué)被稱為中國的哈佛
It has tremendous prestige. It's a huge university, filled with research institutes,
這所大學(xué)頗具盛名，它規(guī)模很大，有很多研究所
world renowned scholars, they do a lot of publishing there, and international conferences.
世界著名的學(xué)者也云集在這里，他們發(fā)表很多學(xué)術(shù)成果，舉辦很多國際大會
And so Dr. Chapman has been hired to teach, I think, American History is hs field actually,or world history, international history.
我想這也就是為什么查普曼教授受邀任教，他的研究領(lǐng)域是美國歷史，還有世界歷史，國際的歷史
And that's, he's published in that area too.
他在這方面也有著作出版
But he's done some very interesting thing, because he's been living in Beijing and he's been looking at the situation around him in Beijing,
他也做了一些非常有意思的事情，因為他住在北京，也在觀察自己周圍的環(huán)境
he offers a course on the City of Beijing, where it's been and more important, for him, where it's going.
他開了一門有關(guān)北京城的課程，對他來說越來越重要的是它未來的走向
