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For me, it's more important where it's been, but for him it's more important where it's going.
對我來說，更有意義的是北京的過去，然而對他而言，北京的未來更重要
We're both in history though. That's a good thing, we share the same discipline.
但好處在于我們都是研究歷史的，我們同屬一個學科。
And so in this course, if I'm taking away any of your thunder you just say it again,
所以在這門課里，如果我搶了你們任何風頭，你們就指出來
in this course he and the students get on bicycles and they ride around the city.
過去查普曼上課的時候帶著學生騎自行車環游北京
And when they see something that's been torn down or building up, well they stop and they talk about it.
每當看到什么東西被破壞或是什么東西正在建設，他們都會停下來討論
And they might ask people about it who're passing by and they make it part of the course.
他們可能會問經過的路人，這些都是課程的一部分
So what an interesting experience, you know? I mean,
這是多么有趣的經歷啊，對吧，我是說
of course you have to be there to take that course, but what a way to see the city of Beijing.
你必須得跟著去才能算上過這門課，但這是個觀察北京的好方法
And you guys have heard me say "Beijing, Beijing, wo fei chang xi huan Beijing, I love the city of Beijing."
你們都聽我說過北京，"北京，北京，我非常喜歡北京"
I think it's the most interesting and fascinating; one of the most intersting, fasinating cities in world.
我覺得北京特別有趣，特別迷人，是世界上最有趣最迷人的城市之一
And in China it's really the one I like first.
是我最先喜歡上的中國城市
I don't want to insult all the other people from other cities in China but I love Beijing the best.
我并不想冒犯其他人來自中國其他城市的人，不過我最愛北京
It has a very distinctive culture.
北京有非常獨特的文化，
And it has a tremendously long history and a very important, crucial, crucially important role in China.
而且歷史非常悠久，地位非常重要，很關鍵，在中國扮演了十分關鍵的重要角色
When I'm in Beijing as much as I can, I'm in this kind of neighborhood, called a hutong; where the people live.
每當我在北京的時候，我盡量多待幾天，我都會來到胡同——也就是老北京人住的地方，
