2017年CRI Beijing children make historic visit to Sweden

 

Students from Beijing Jinfan Art Troupe¹ gave a performance at Stockholm Concert Hall on May 2, 2017. [Photo: China Plus/Chen Xuefei]

Hundreds of students from 9 different primary and middle schools in Beijing are in Sweden's capital as part of a major cultural exchange initiative².

The Chinese students, ranging in age from 6 to 15, have been given access to the famed Karolinska Institute, one of the world's most prestigious³ medical universities.

Founded in 1810, the Karolinska Institute is today most associated with the Nobel Prize.

The 50 faculty⁴ members at the Institute are responsible for deciding who wins the annual award for Physiology⁵ or Medicine.

Professor Anna Wader is one of the esteemed⁶ members of the Karolinska faculty, and helped lead the Chinese students on their tour of the Institute.

"I think it is wonderful to have this visit and they seem to be very interested and they have many interesting questions, I am very happy to have them here."

As part of their tour, the Chinese students were given an explanation of the history behind the Nobel Prizes.

They were also treated to a lecture by Edvard Moser.

Moser won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on understanding how the human brain processes information from the environment around us.

Raised in a community of less than 50-thousand people on the west coast of Norway, Moser says the desire to learn and expand one's mind should not be influenced by where you live.

"I think you don't need to be in Boston or Harvard or San Francisco, you can come from a small area. You just study what you really like, study what you have great passion for and do what you are good at. Good Luck. You can study science, you can do something else, anything is possible. Maybe some of you will become scientist in the future."

Many of the young Chinese students who sat through Moser's lecture seem to have taken his message to heart.

"I thought a lot after listening to the Nobel Laureate's lecture. I felt they won the prize through their hard work. They set up a good example for us. "

Dou Chunxiang, Education Councilor with the Chinese Embassy⁷ in Stockholm, says the entire trip is an eye-opening experience for the 600 young Chinese minds.

"That 600 excellent students from Beijing came to visit Sweden marks the great prospect⁸ for bilateral⁹ cooperation and exchange in ground level education. Children are the future, so it is very meaningful to have young people here to learn and experience. "

Beyond their educational tours, the young students from Beijing are also helping¹⁰ spread Chinese culture as part of their time in Stockholm.

Around a thousand people turned out to the Stockholm Concert Hall this past week to watch the Chinese students put on a variety of music and dance performances.

1 troupe   

n.剧团，戏班；杂技团；马戏团

参考例句：

• The art troupe is always on the move in frontier guards.文工团常年在边防部队流动。
• The troupe produced a new play last night.剧团昨晚上演了一部新剧。

2 initiative   

n.主动性，首创精神，主动权（的行动），倡议

参考例句：

• He went to see the headmaster on his own initiative.他主动去看望校长。
• His employer had described him as lacking in initiative and drive.雇主说他缺乏进取心和干劲。

3 prestigious   

adj.有威望的，有声望的，受尊敬的

参考例句：

• The young man graduated from a prestigious university.这个年轻人毕业于一所名牌大学。
• You may even join a prestigious magazine as a contributing editor.甚至可能会加入一个知名杂志做编辑。

4 faculty   

n.才能；学院，系；(学院或系的)全体教学人员

参考例句：

• He has a great faculty for learning foreign languages.他有学习外语的天赋。
• He has the faculty of saying the right thing at the right time.他有在恰当的时候说恰当的话的才智。

5 physiology   

n.生理学，生理机能

参考例句：

• He bought a book about physiology.他买了一本生理学方面的书。
• He was awarded the Nobel Prize for achievements in physiology.他因生理学方面的建树而被授予诺贝尔奖。

6 esteemed   

adj.受人尊敬的v.尊敬( esteem的过去式和过去分词 )；敬重；认为；以为

参考例句：

• The art of conversation is highly esteemed in France. 在法国十分尊重谈话技巧。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He esteemed that he understood what I had said. 他认为已经听懂我说的意思了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 embassy   

n.大使馆，大使及其随员

参考例句：

• Large crowd demonstrated outside the British Embassy.很多群众在英国大使馆外面示威。
• He's a U.S. diplomat assigned to the embassy in London.他是美国驻伦敦大使馆的一名外交官。

8 prospect   

n.前景，前途；景色，视野

参考例句：

• This state of things holds out a cheerful prospect.事态呈现出可喜的前景。
• The prospect became more evident.前景变得更加明朗了。

9 bilateral   

adj.双方的，两边的，两侧的

参考例句：

• They have been negotiating a bilateral trade deal.他们一直在商谈一项双边贸易协定。
• There was a wide gap between the views of the two statesmen on the bilateral cooperation.对双方合作的问题，两位政治家各自所持的看法差距甚大。

10 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。