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For me, it's more important where it's been, but for him it's more important where it's going.
对我来说，更有意义的是北京的过去，然而对他而言，北京的未来更重要
We're both in history though. That's a good thing, we share the same discipline.
但好处在于我们都是研究历史的，我们同属一个学科。
And so in this course, if I'm taking away any of your thunder you just say it again,
所以在这门课里，如果我抢了你们任何风头，你们就指出来
in this course he and the students get on bicycles and they ride around the city.
过去查普曼上课的时候带着学生骑自行车环游北京
And when they see something that's been torn down or building up, well they stop and they talk about it.
每当看到什么东西被破坏或是什么东西正在建设，他们都会停下来讨论
And they might ask people about it who're passing by and they make it part of the course.
他们可能会问经过的路人，这些都是课程的一部分
So what an interesting experience, you know? I mean,
这是多么有趣的经历啊，对吧，我是说
of course you have to be there to take that course, but what a way to see the city of Beijing.
你必须得跟着去才能算上过这门课，但这是个观察北京的好方法
And you guys have heard me say "Beijing, Beijing, wo fei chang xi huan Beijing, I love the city of Beijing."
你们都听我说过北京，"北京，北京，我非常喜欢北京"
I think it's the most interesting and fascinating; one of the most intersting, fasinating cities in world.
我觉得北京特别有趣，特别迷人，是世界上最有趣最迷人的城市之一
And in China it's really the one I like first.
是我最先喜欢上的中国城市
I don't want to insult all the other people from other cities in China but I love Beijing the best.
我并不想冒犯其他人来自中国其他城市的人，不过我最爱北京
It has a very distinctive culture.
北京有非常独特的文化，
And it has a tremendously long history and a very important, crucial, crucially important role in China.
而且历史非常悠久，地位非常重要，很关键，在中国扮演了十分关键的重要角色
When I'm in Beijing as much as I can, I'm in this kind of neighborhood, called a hutong; where the people live.
每当我在北京的时候，我尽量多待几天，我都会来到胡同——也就是老北京人住的地方，
