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搜狐出国主持人：我之前在网上看到有专家有这样一种说法，上海纽约大学招生的时候可能会有一种尴尬的状态，他眼下吸引的学生很有可能是准备出国留学，但是一时进不了海外一流大学，从而把上海纽约大学作为跳板。雷蒙校长怎么看待这样一个说法？
SOHU Hostess’s Question for Jeffrey Lehman: I have seen some comments online from some experts saying that the admission of the NYU Shanghai might meet with such a dilemma that the students interested in NYU Shanghai will be those who want to go abroad to study but at this moment they can’t be admitted to some top foreign universities, so they might see NYU Shanghai as one step for them to take another leap to other foreign universities abroad, how do think this problem?
Jeffrey. Lehman（上海纽约大学常务副校长）：今年我们非常幸运，我们是一个不大的学校，但所受到的关注让我们受宠若惊。在第一年招生我们就收到了五千多份的入学申请材料，但第一届只有300个招生名额，而且其中一半的名额是为中国学生准备的，即只招收150个中国学生。我们所接收到的申请的学生都是我见过的最优秀的中国学生，但是由于名额限制我们不得不忍痛割爱，舍弃了很大一部分非常优秀的中国学生。
来到上海纽约大学的学生都是超常优秀的学生，我们将给他们提供世界一流水平的教育。其中包括为他们提供到纽约大学全球14个大城市的校园或者学习中心去学习的机会。我们期待他们所接受的教育能帮助他们在毕业后从事相关领导岗位做好准备。
Jeffrey Sean Lehman（Vice Chancellor of NYU Shanghai）：Well, we were very lucky this year, I must say this is the first year in which we receive applications, we are very small school, and so we were overwhelmed. We had more than 5000 applications for only 300 seats, only half of the seats, only 150 seats were available for students from China. And the students we received were, honestly, the best I ever have seen from students in China. We had to turn away some amazing students who can go to the best universities in China, but we just do not have a room for all the incredible talented students that we have. The students who come to us are exceptional and we will deliver to them the best education in the world. That’s part of the education that they will have to move around the world and study at other parts of New York university’s network. And we expect that the education they receive with us will prepare them for positions of leadership in the world after they graduate.
搜狐出国主持人：现在国际化的趋势越来越明显，对于大学生意味着什么呢？
SOHU Hostess’s Question for Jeffrey Lehman: As globalization becomes more and more obvious, in your opinion, what kind of significance can bring for the university students today?
Jeffrey. Lehman（上海纽约大学常务副校长）：记得在我小时候，基本的情况就是世界上每个国家的人们都是在国内跟本国人一起工作和生活，所以我们那时只需学习我们自己的文化和语言就能让自己很好地与周围的人一起工作。但是随着今天全球化的发展，以上那种情形已经消失，人们得学会使用外语与来自世界各地的人们一起工作。 因此我认为，今天人们需要掌握的很重要的一个技能就是双语能力，即除了掌握自己的母语外还要再掌握一门外语。如果母语是中文，那么再掌握一门英语是非常重要的，而且熟练程度要达到母语水平。如果母语是英文，那么再学习一门外语也非常重要，这门外语可以是中文、法语或者其语言，但是不能认为其他很多人都在说英文，所以就没有必要再学一门外语，这种观点是错误的，因为当你具备了双语的能力，你会发现你具备了从不同语言的角度去看待问题的能力，这样会获得更加深刻和清晰的见解，以适应全球化的环境。
Jeffrey Sean Lehman（Vice Chancellor of NYU Shanghai）：Well, I think when I was growing up, the assumption in every country in the world was that people would spend their lives working and living with the people from the same country, so we were prepared to learn our culture and our language and to be effective with people who were like us. With globalization today, that assumption is no longer true, people have to be prepared to live and work with other people from other countries, work in different languages. To me, one of the important skills for people today is to be truly bilingual, to have one’s own language and to have a second language. So if your first language is Chinese, it’s crucially important to be fluent in English, to speak just like a native speaker of English, if your first language is English, it’s crucially important to learn a second language , that can be Chinese, can be French and can be something else, but you have to learn a second language, you can’t say that everybody speak English, so I don’t need to learn a second language, the opposite is true because when you are bilingual, you learn that you can see problems in different ways with different languages and that can help you to see things more deeply and see things more clearly as well.
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