參加學(xué)校社團(tuán)有哪些益處？說(shuō)一說(shuō)關(guān)于雅禮協(xié)會(huì)的信息

今天的這段對(duì)話，在討論學(xué)校社團(tuán)，
 
參加學(xué)校社團(tuán)有哪些益處？說(shuō)一說(shuō)關(guān)于雅禮協(xié)會(huì)的信息
 
來(lái)聽(tīng)今天的講解:
 
A: (Holding a loudspeaker) Attention, please! Every student, if you are eager to enlarge your horizon and enrich your boring spare time, but you cannot find a proper place to let out your depressed impulse, OK, now it’s high time that you resorted to us-our university’s various students? unions, where, once you are involved in, there will be a lot of opportunities for you to have a large circle of friends very soon!
 
同學(xué)們注意啦，如果你們想擴(kuò)展視野，豐富你們無(wú)聊的閑暇時(shí)間，但是又苦于找不到合適的場(chǎng)所發(fā)泄你們壓抑的沖動(dòng)，那么是時(shí)候向我們學(xué)校協(xié)會(huì)伸出求肋信號(hào)了，一旦你們加入了學(xué)校協(xié)會(huì)，那么很快你就會(huì)有絕好的機(jī)會(huì)擴(kuò)大你們的交際圈。
 
B: Excuse me, I am a freshman here, but I am not familiar with the current school life, so most of the time I just have nothing meaningful to do except learning. However， learning all the time sometimes makes me feel depressed and lack a sense of interest. So I am looking for a chance to change this kind of life state...
 
不好意思，我是大一新生，對(duì)學(xué)校的現(xiàn)狀還不是很熟悉，所以大部分時(shí)間我都是在學(xué)校，但是老是學(xué)習(xí)使我很壓抑而且缺少興趣，所以我想改變一下現(xiàn)狀……
 
A: OK, I have understood your trouble, but don’t worry about that, because what you are encountering now is very common among the freshman, and that’s why we are here to help you, to some degree. As you know, our university has established different kinds of students’ associations, most of them are founded according to the students’ interests. When you really join, you will taste the great joy and delight in the activities held regularly in our campus.
 
好的，我明白你的問(wèn)題了，請(qǐng)不用擔(dān)心，因?yàn)槟阌龅降恼窃谛峦瑢W(xué)中司空見(jiàn)慣的問(wèn)題，一定程度上我們可以幫你們解決這個(gè)難題。如你所知，學(xué)校成立了很多社團(tuán)，大部分都是根據(jù)學(xué)生的興趣建立的，當(dāng)你真正地加入其中后，你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)校園里定期舉行的這些活動(dòng)會(huì)給你帶來(lái)很多樂(lè)趣。
 
B: Since you have told me so many benefits of your associations, can you tell more details about them by giving me one specific example? Because I have not grasped the real advantages of them...
 
既然你給我說(shuō)了那么多社團(tuán)的優(yōu)點(diǎn)，那能否給我舉個(gè)具體的例子說(shuō)明一下呢？因?yàn)槲覜](méi)有真正的理解它們的益處……
 
A:Well, I am so sorry about that, I know what I am saying gives you a kind of feeling of blowing my horn ' . So I can explain the details about one association. For example, the English Speaking Society aims at practicing and improving your spoken English. Every week，we will hold this activity in the form of an English Comer to attract the students to join us, so everybody can communicate and express their ideas and thoughts freely and relaxed...
 
很抱歉，我說(shuō)的話給你造成了一種自吹自檑的感覺(jué)，那我就給舉一個(gè)實(shí)際的例子吧。比如，我們的英語(yǔ)協(xié)會(huì)每周會(huì)舉行類似像個(gè)英語(yǔ)角的活動(dòng)，吸引各位同學(xué)加入其中，暢所欲言。
 
B: Uh, now I got what you said. It is just a big difference between the ASSOCIATION that is in my mind and one that is in your mouth. Besides, as for the association in my mind, in fact, I myself don't know about it, either. I just heard it from my friend and did a little search on the Internet. At the moment I am having a walk, and coincidently I came across your activity which, I thought, would give me a hand for my perplexity. However, when you explained to me, it is simply far from relevant to that!
 
哦，現(xiàn)在我明白你的意思了。我所想的協(xié)會(huì)和你說(shuō)的這些協(xié)會(huì)有很大的區(qū)別呢。其實(shí)，對(duì)于我想知道的協(xié)會(huì)情況我本身也不了解，只是從朋友那里聽(tīng)到過(guò)并且做過(guò)一些捜索工作。那會(huì)兒我正在散步，碰巧遇到你們這個(gè)話動(dòng)，我本以為可以從你們那里得到解答，不過(guò)你們說(shuō)的與我想知道的相差甚遠(yuǎn)……
 
A: ... Uh, I feel rather sorry not being able to give you some valuable information, but can you tell me what kind of association you want to know. Only after you tell me，can I know from which aspect I can solve your problem
 
很抱歉沒(méi)能結(jié)你提供一些有價(jià)值的信息，但是你能否告訴我你想知道的那個(gè)協(xié)會(huì)名稱呢，只有這樣我才能知道我應(yīng)該從哪方面幫肋你呀。
 
B: Oh, the Association that I mentioned just now is Yali-China Association.Will you have a chance to hear about it?
 
哦，我剛才提到的協(xié)會(huì)是雅禮協(xié)會(huì)，你聽(tīng)到過(guò)這個(gè)名稱嗎？
 
A: Yali-China Association, let me see. (Kevin falls into the thought) Ah, with Yali-China Association, do you refer to that organization which is founded in China, but with its headquarters in America?
 
雅禮協(xié)會(huì)，我想想看啊，你指的是那個(gè)在中國(guó)成立，但是總部在美國(guó)的那個(gè)組織嗎？
 
B: Wow, you do know about that. That’s great. So can you do me a favor to tell me more about this association, because I have to finish a survey of it as my mid-term paper, which seems to me a hot potato for such a long time.
 
哇，你知道這個(gè)呀，太棒了，那你能告訴我更多的信息嗎，因?yàn)槲乙瓿蛇@學(xué)期的期中調(diào)査問(wèn)卷，這個(gè)問(wèn)題困擾了我好長(zhǎng)一段時(shí)間了。
 
A: Well, you know what, that’s a real coincidence. For one of my foreign friends comes from Yale University, now he is studying in China. We keep contact with each other frequently, and he also tells me a lot about Yali-China Association. The Yale-China Association, founded in 1901，is a private, noNPRofit organization with more than a century of experience contributing to the development of education in and about China and to the furtherance of understanding between Chinese and American people. The Yale-China Association was first incorporated as the Yale Foreign Missionary Society, and was known informally as Yale-in-China as early as 1913. It was nondenominadonal from its beginnings and by the 1920s had ceased to be an overtly missionary enterprise. It was re-incorporated in 1934 as a secular organization, the Yale-in-China Association, and in 1975 as the Yale-China Association. At the urging of the home office in New Havn City of New Haven Seal as well as other missionaries in China, the Yale Mission early on assumed more of an educational than evangelical function.
 
嗯，你知道嗎，這太巧含了，我正好有一個(gè)美國(guó)的朋友，他現(xiàn)在正在中國(guó)讀書(shū)，我們經(jīng)常保持聯(lián)系，所以他給我講了很多關(guān)于雅禮協(xié)會(huì)的事情。雅禮協(xié)會(huì)建于1901年，是一個(gè)私立的非盈利性的組織，有著100多年的歷史，它促進(jìn)了中國(guó)教育的發(fā)展，增進(jìn)了中美兩國(guó)人民的感情。雅禮協(xié)會(huì)是第一個(gè)注冊(cè)的外國(guó)傳教士協(xié)會(huì)，并且早在1913年就認(rèn)作為非正式的耶魯大學(xué)在中國(guó)的協(xié)會(huì)。從一開(kāi)始它就與宗教無(wú)關(guān)，直到20世紀(jì)20年代才終止了公開(kāi)傳教組織的身份。在1934年重新注冊(cè)為非宗教組織，命名為耶魯一中國(guó)協(xié)會(huì)，1975年更名為雅禮協(xié)會(huì)。協(xié)同在中國(guó)的其他傳教機(jī)構(gòu)和紐黑文總部的崛起，耶魯早就被認(rèn)為是承載著教育而非教會(huì)功能的機(jī)構(gòu)。
 
B: Wow, I don’t know how to express my gratitude to you. You know so much about it that I just cannot write down all of them, because all of the information is quite useful so that I don’t know which part I should omit and which part I should note down. Here, I，ve got an idea. Can we make an appointment some other time if it is convenient for you, so we can have more time to talk? In addition, today, you have told me quite a lot about it and you must be very tired and thirsty...
 
哇，我真不知道怎么表達(dá)我的感激之情！你說(shuō)得真夠詳細(xì)的，我都來(lái)不及記錄下來(lái)了。因?yàn)檫@所有的信息都很有用，所以我不知道該刪減或者該記錄哪一部分了。 我有個(gè)想法，方便的話，我們何不約個(gè)時(shí)間呢？這樣我們可以有更多的時(shí)間來(lái)聊了。而且，你今天綰我講了這么多肯定也又累又渴了……
 
A: OK, that sounds nice. And we’d better find another time and place to share so much information about Yali-China Association...
 
嗯，聽(tīng)上去不錯(cuò)。我們最好找個(gè)時(shí)間和地點(diǎn)分享下關(guān)于雅禮協(xié)會(huì)的信息……