英翻中：物質文化和非物質文化的定義。（Material Culture and Non-material Culture) E-C The culture of any society is usually thought to be of two kinds: material and nonmaterial. Material culture includes the man-made phenomena which have physical properties such as height, breadth, and weight. A boat, a machine, a house—all these objects are part of the material culture. The nonmaterial culture is that portion of the environment which surrounds man and which has an impact on his behavior but which lacks these material properties: values, beliefs, traditions, and all the other habits and ideas invented and acquired by man as a member of society. Contemporary sociological theory tends to assign primary importance to the nonmaterial culture in choosing problems for study. It assumes, for example, that boats, planes, automobiles, and so forth, are not nearly so important as the traditions we have developed which make their manufacture possible—indeed, which prescribe how we are to use them. The emphasis of contemporary sociology is to insist that the material culture would not exist had not the nonmaterial culture first been available to suggest the ideas which are embodied in the inventions of material culture. 中翻英：胡錦濤主席在訪美期間YALE Univ.的一段講演。（我在口譯講座中提到過的） 中華文明歷來注重親仁善鄰，講求和睦相處。。中國人在對外關係中始終秉承“強不執弱”、“富不侮貧”的精神，主張“協和萬邦”。中國人提倡“海納百川，有容乃大”，主張吸納百家優長、兼集八方精義。今天，中國堅定不移地走和平發展道路，既通過維護世界和平來發展自己，又通過自身的發展來促進世界和平。中國堅持實施互利共贏的對外開放戰略，真誠願意同各國廣泛開展合作，真誠願意兼收幷蓄、博採各種文明之長，以合作謀和平、以合作促發展，推動建設一個持久和平、共同繁榮的和諧世界。 Answer to C-E: Coming to the Yale campus with its distinctive academic flavor and looking at the eager young faces in the audience, I cannot but recall my great experience studying at Qinghua University in Beijing 40 years ago. Indeed, what happens during one's school years will influence his whole life. I still benefit greatly from the instruction of my teachers and my interaction with other students. Yale is renowned for its long history, unique way of teaching and excellence in academic pursuit. If time could go back several decades, I would really like to be a student of Yale just like you. Yale's motto, "Light and Truth", which is a calling for human progress, represents the aspiration of every motivated young man and woman.
