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作者：閻成席
You are lending an earto me in class, but you'd better zero in onthe topics in our discussion.
課堂上你們認真聽我講課，但也要將注意力集中在討論的話題上。
【Martin's Note】
No doubt, listening is a good way to learn. Many students, however, are not all ears to their teachers in class or they don't lend an ear to their teacher, so as a result, they don't really know what the teacher is focusing on in the class.
毫無疑問，傾聽是一種好的學習方法。然而，許多學生并沒有全神貫注地聽老師的講課，或者說，他們并沒有認真聽講，結果他們真的搞不懂老師在課堂的教授要點。
[1] All students in the English Department gathered together in the auditorium, having a series of lecture given by Martin, who would like to systematically introduce the students the American culture so that the students could be fully immersed into the pure American English atmosphere.
[1] 英語系的全體學生都集合在大禮堂聽系列講座，馬丁想向他們系統地介紹美國文化，這樣他們都會完全融入純英語的環境中。
[2] At the very beginning, the students seemed to have strong interest in such a lecture, and tried to follow Martin by lending an ear to him and busying themselves in taking notes. At this, Martin was really in a cheerful mood. He kept talking on that way for an entire hour. All of a sudden, he stopped and looked around at the students.
[2]一開始，學生們好像這這種講座很感興趣，認真聽馬丁講演，還忙著做筆記，看到這些，馬丁別提有多高興了。他就這樣講了一個整小時。突然間，他停下來，張望著學生們
[3] A few moments later, he continued, "Hey, you guys! You are fascinated by my lecture today. Hopefully, my series of lectures may bring you home to the American culture, so you can be fully exposed toit and can have fewer problems while you stay with native speakers. However, I will give you some time for a free talk. Would you like to ask me any questions? And that I can know what you are really interested in. Now
here we go! Your questions, please. Here are some topics available on the screen. Please focus on one of the topics you'd like to talk about."
[3] 不一會兒，他又接著說，“嘿，同學們！今天我的講座你們聽得很著迷呀。我倒是希望我的系列講座能讓大家徹底了解美國文化，同時你們能夠完全融入我們的文化，這樣你們和我們老外呆在一起問題就少了許多。不過，我要給你們點時間，自由交流一下。你們想問我問題嗎？這樣，我就知道你們對什么更感興趣。好了，請問吧！請提出問題呀！屏幕上有我準備好的幾個話題。請選一個你喜歡的話題。”
[4] After quite a while, the students remained silent, none of whom rose to talk about the topics. Martin shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly, "You are lending an ear to me in class, but you'd better zero in on the topics in our discussion."
[4]過了好一陣子，學生們還是默不吭聲，沒有人站起來就這些話題發表自己的看法。馬丁聳聳肩，無可奈何地說，“課堂上你們認真聽我講課，但也要將注意力集中在我們課堂討論的話題上。”
