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Could I just ask you before we start?
讲课前，请允许我首先提问
So that you already know very good humor to spell one word for me.
你们应该乐意帮我拼写一个单词
Each of you, are you prepared to do this?
每个人都准备好了吗?
Yes.
是的
Then you can ask all your friends the same thing.
你们可以问朋友同样的问题
And the question is very easy.
问题很简单
How do you spell "ban(n)ister",
"班尼斯特"这个词怎么拼写
the one I just came up on there.
我在那边刚刚看到这个词
Alright? Not Sir Roger Bannister.
知道吗?不是罗杰·班尼斯特爵士
There is ban(n)ister.
而是一个单词
It's either got one n or two ns.
它包含一个n呢，还是两个n
This is a bit of original research from my point of view.
我认为这有点像原创研究
And I want you to put your hand up
请把手举起来
if you believe there is one n in "ban(n)ister".
如果你认为"班尼斯特"这个词中包含一个n
Hands up, please.
请举手
It's awful, isn't it?
很糟糕，不是吗?
Hmm? Because you think there's only two possibilities,
嗯?因为你们认为只存在两种可能
and I bet you I'm one of the people who is in the wrong camp.
我打赌你一定认为自己选错了
Can we just have another quick show on the one "n"s
请再次快速示意选一个n的有哪些人
Growing, isn't it?
比刚才多，不是吗?
Then could we have each of you hands up if it's got two "n"s.
然后，选两个n的人请举手
Oh, a lot of you still in the middle of nowhere, I can see that.
哦，我发现很多人两种都没选
Well, let me tell you something, shall I?
好吧，我来告诉你们吧
The word "ban(n)ister" in Chambers Dictionary is the one word
"班尼斯特"这个词，我在钱伯斯词典里
I've ever met and no other dictionary,
曾碰到过，其他词典里没有
well, which says b-a-n-i-s-t-e-r. One n.
给的拼写是b-a-n-i-s-t-e-r 一个n
And after that it says...
但下面补充说...
It says but from the orthographic point way of spelling
说:从正字法
and from the etymology angel,
和语源学的角度讲
it is now agreed in all the higher
现在英语文学界的所有高级
of English literature
都一致认为
That two ns is perfectly proper.
两个n也是恰当的
And so, everybody here got it right, isn't it?
因此，每个人都答对了，不是吗?
And this is a good thing when you sort of
某种程度上讲，正确拼写单词
with a correct spelling, isn't it?
是件好事情，不是吗?
