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Ok, folks. Welcome everybody to this presentation this morning.
大家好，欢迎大家光临今天上午的演讲
I hope everyone has some food; it's there and it's to sort of calm you down and welcome you into the morning.
希望大家都吃了点东西，餐点就在那，能让大家平静一些，迎接这个早上
It's a very civilized way to begin a talk, I think.
我想这是一个很文明的开始演讲的方式
So help yourself to the food and enjoy it.
所以大家随意，吃点东西
We're so happy to have Dr. Mike Chapman with us today.
今天非常高兴能请到麦克·查普曼博士到场
And because he's a Suffolk graduate, that one of the reasons,actualy he was a good student
他是萨福克大学的校友，这是一个原因，在校期间他是个好学生
actually he was an outstanding student And the faculty who taught him have all told me that.
其实是个非常出色的学生，教过他的教授都跟他这么说过
And then he went on to B.C. another school in the area and got a PhD there.
毕业之后他去了这附近的波士顿大学，在那儿拿到了博士学位
And now he's teaching at Peking University.
现在他任教于北京大学
Peking University is probably, is known as the Harvard of China.
北京大学被称为中国的哈佛
It has tremendous prestige. It's a huge university, filled with research institutes,
这所大学颇具盛名，它规模很大，有很多研究所
world renowned scholars, they do a lot of publishing there, and international conferences.
世界着名的学者也云集在这里，他们发表很多学术成果，举办很多国际大会
And so Dr. Chapman has been hired to teach, I think, American History is hs field actually,or world history, international history.
我想这也就是为什么查普曼教授受邀任教，他的研究领域是美国历史，还有世界历史，国际的历史
And that's, he's published in that area too.
他在这方面也有着作出版
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，因为他住在北京，也在观察自己周围的环境
he offers a course on the City of Beijing, where it's been and more important, for him, where it's going.
他开了一门有关北京城的课程，对他来说越来越重要的是它未来的走向
