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His mother didn't want him to go. His friends thought China was just scary.
他的母親不想讓他去。他的朋友們認為中國十分恐怖。

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Six months on though, 16-year-old Spencer Langerman is getting the full dose of China 101.
不過，六個月以來，十六歲的史賓塞‧蘭格曼完整地吸收了中國的初體驗。

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Definitely, my friends and family like, when I came they were like,
當然我的朋友和家人都……我要來的時候他們會說

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don't let the Chinese brainwash you like into communism and like, they kind of...the censorship.
「不要被中國共產主義把你洗腦了」這類的話，還有像是……思想審查。

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People are still saying that to you?
大家現在還會跟你這麼說嗎？

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Yeah.
是啊。

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The boy from Manhattan now sits in the shadow of Chairman Mao.
這位來自曼哈頓的男孩現在離毛主席很近。

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Spencer learns the Communist Party's version of Chinese history.
史賓塞在學習共產黨版本的中國歷史。

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He speaks only Chinese in class -- he's fluent -- sometimes now, even better than English.
他在課堂上只能說中文，說得很流利，現在有時候甚至說得比英文好。

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It's all part of this unique program.
這是一項特殊計畫的一部分。

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Take a kid out of American school,
把一個小孩從美國的學校帶出來，

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put them in a regular Chinese classroom and place them with a Chinese family for one year.
放到一般的中國的教室裡，並且安置在中國家庭中一年。

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Spencer is one of nearly 50 American teenagers
史賓塞只是將近五十位美國青少年的其中一人，

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here building a bridge between the world's superpower and its fast-emerging rival.
他們在此為這個世界強國及其快速竄起的對手之間建立溝通的橋樑。

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I think the opinion of China in the United States is really kind of off. And a lot of the idea[s] of China is [are] kind of flawed.
我認為美國對中國的看法真的有點不符現況，很多對於中國的想法不太對。

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There're a lot of thoughts about, like, China's kind of backwards [backward] and really rural and like, not modern -- and obviously, that's wrong.
有很多人覺得，譬如說中國有點落後或真的很鄉下、不現代——顯然這是錯的。

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I mean, we're here in this, like, super-modern city.
我是說，我們就身在這個可說是超級現代化的都市裡。

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Spencer tells me he always thought China was cool. Living here hasn't changed that.
史賓塞告訴我他一直覺得中國很酷，住在這裡並沒有改變這種想法。

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The Chinese kids, he says, are just like Americans.
他說中國的小孩就像美國小孩。

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They love sports. He says they kick his butt on the basketball court.
他們熱愛運動。他說他們在籃球場上痛宰了他。

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They like western movies and music. But in the classroom, that's where the differences begin.
他們喜歡西洋電影和音樂。但是，在課堂上，差異就開始浮現了。

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Their approach to education is really a lot...they just memorize, memorize, memorize; study, study, study.
他們的教育方法真的有很多……他們就一直死背、死背、死背，讀書、讀書、讀書。

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And I feel like they're not really...they don't like have discussions.
我覺得他們真的沒有……他們不喜歡討論。

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It hasn't all been easy. Like any kid, he gets homesick, and then there was moving in with a new family.
來這裡當交換學生有時並不好過。像任何小孩一樣，史賓塞會想家，而且還要搬進去和新的家庭同住。

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He's right at home now, though, happily chatting at the dinner table like any family.
不過他現在已經很自在了，可以像其他家庭一樣在餐桌上閒聊。

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His surrogate Chinese parents never graduated from high school and work in a local market.
他的中國代理父母中學沒畢業，在當地市場工作。

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They live in a modest apartment, small in size, but big on hospitality. 
他們住在一間簡樸的公寓裡，房子雖小，卻有大大的熱情好客。

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And Spencer has a 13-year-old host brother who teases like all little brothers. 
史賓塞還有一位寄宿家庭的十三歲兄弟，就像所有的弟弟一樣愛尋他開心。

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And he's teaching his big brother a lesson in Chinese chess.
他正在教他的哥哥象棋。

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Spencer hasn't yet won a game, but each move,
史賓塞還沒有贏過一盤棋，但是他希望每走一步，

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he hopes, brings his homeland of the United States and his adopted home, China, that much closer.
都能讓他的祖國美國和接納他的居地中國拉近那麼一點距離。