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翻译训练 1. In short what I want to call the attention of the people of Europe and America to, just at this moment when civilization seems to be threatened with bankruptcy, is that there is an invaluable and hitherto unsuspected asset of civilisation here in China. The asset of civilization is not the trade, the railway, the mineral wealth, gold, silver, iron or coal in this country. The asset of civilisation of the world today, I want to say here, is the Chinaman, the unspoilt real Chinaman with his Religion of good citizenship. The real Chinaman, I say, is an invaluable asset of civilisation, because he is a person who costs the world little or nothing to keep him in order. Indeed I would like here to warn the people of Europe and America not to destroy this invaluable asset of civilisation, not to change and spoil the real Chinaman as they are now trying to do with their New Learning. If the people of Europe and America succeed in destroying the real Chinaman, the Chinese type of humanity; succeed in transforming the real Chinaman into a European or American, i.e., to say, a person who will require a priest or soldier to keep him in order, then surely they will increase the burden either of Religion or of Militarism of the world, _this last item at this moment already becoming a danger and menace to civilization and humanity. But on the other hand, suppose one could by some means or other change the European or American type of humanity, transform the European or American into a real Chinaman who will then not require a priest or soldier to keep him in order,;_just think what a burden will be taken off from the world. 291 words 译文 1：总之，我想引起欧洲和美国的人民的关注的是，在现阶段当人们的道德观念似乎沦丧之时，在中国有一个无价的、迄今为止不为人所知的宝贵文化财产。这个文化的财产不是这个国家的贸易、铁路、矿产资源、金子、银、铁和煤。我这里想说的是，在当今世界，这个文化的财产就是中国人—一个没有道德沦丧的和有着良好公民信仰的真正的中国人。这个真正的中国人，是文明的无价之宝，因为他是不会对世界造成危害并且不用更多规则去约束的一个人。事实上，我想提醒欧美国家的人民不要去毁坏这样一个无价的文化财产，不要去改变和破坏这样的中国人，因为他们正在尝试着去接受新的学习去学习做这样一个中国人。如果欧美国家的人民成功的毁坏了这个真正的中国人—中国式的人；成功的将这样一个中国人转化成一