If you are one of those people who advocate or sanction that Chinese students should learn less English or better not at all, ask yourself this question: how many Chinese scientists and engineers whose relentless efforts helped send Chinese astronauts into the space station safely never learnt English or for that matter any other western languages？
一直有人提出”英语无用论“，反对学英语。如果你也是其中一员，请问自己一个问题：有多少对航天事业做出伟大贡献且帮助宇航员成功到达太空的中国科学家和工程师从没学过英语或其他西方语言？
I bet they would not have been selected to be members of that elite group if they had not acquired the ability to read articles which were published in scientific journals. Given the fact that we Chinese are not the first country exploring the space, therefore there must be some knowledge or technologies out there that we can learn instead of reinventing the wheel.
我敢打赌如果他们没有阅读国外科学期刊的能力的话，也不会被选为精英中的一员。因为中国不是探索星球的第一个国家，因此必须通过学习“过来人”的经验，以此少走弯路。
Like it or not, English is the lingua franca for science and commerce for now; everyone knows this.
不管你喜不喜欢，众所周知，现在英语是科学界和商业界的通用语言。
As proud Chinese we would like to replace English with Chinese in the future as the universal language that everyone on the earth needs to learn. You are doing a disservice to that great cause if you support the nonsensical notion that we don’t need to learn English anymore.
作为骄傲的中国人，我们希望将来汉语能代替英语成为全世界都要学习的通用语言。但如果你支持“不需要学英语”这种鬼话，那纯属在帮倒忙。
Learning English pays. You might have been a underachiever, therefore English is no use for you. But your kids or grandkids may do better than you.
学英语好处多多。或许你是个后进生，学英语对你毫无用处，但你的子孙后代或许会比你强的多。
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