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查音频节目文稿，了解广阔的世界。跟随我们的脚步，体会英语的温度。" Hi everyone, and welcome back to Britain under the Microscope.欢迎回到【闲话英伦】. Hello 安澜.
Hi. Lulu. Hi, everyone.
Actually. Today let's make it a special edition. Instead of talking about UK in general, let's talk about you. Are you getting scared?
Well. A little bit. Yeah.
Actually, it's because sometimes when I'm interacting with our audience, with our followers, they kind of ask so what did Anlan major in? What’s his major when he was in university？
因为大家都知道, 我是一直读语言上来的, 很多人都会问, 说安澜在大学里学的是什么？
Actually, I know for a fact that you studied something called Classics.
Yes. That's right.
翻译成什么古典或者经典什么, 这个东西是一个很特殊的学科, and I thought we can talk about that today.
OK. Goody.
I can hear the excitement in your voice.
It's a subject that I really, really loved. This is what I studied for my BA, and my MA, I studied Chinese; but I always remember my BA and this was certainly something that I really love studying, despite the fact that, let's face it, it doesn't really get you many jobs.
We can talk about the career prospects of this major in a bit.
OK.
But first things first, what is Classics？
Classics is, I would say, western subject. It's the study of classical languages.
Classical languages here means?
Ancient Greek and Latin.
Ancient Greek and Latin. So it's not even modern Greek.
No, no, ancient Greek.
Dead languages.
Well, dead-ish. But it's also the study of philosophy, art, history, and lots of other subjects all related to the ancient world, particularly Greece and Rome.
I see. So is that like, I don't know, I'm trying to relate to my experience, my own experience. So I don't know is that like a history major or what is it？
It's an arts subject. So that's why I've got a BA in arts. It's partly history, but it's also languages and philosophy as well, and archaeology.
一个generally文科的东西.
Yes. That's right.
Now I don't know if it's just a stereotype of mind or not. Is this the sort of thing that when people hear, they go like kind of like a fancy subject, because it's not very practical.
Shall we say就是听上去很高大上的, 不是那种说毕业了就能找工作, 而是那种感觉好像有钱人学的东西.
I think you’re a bit too nice to me when you say oh people go Wow, you study Classics. In my experience, most of them say why？
I've met people when they hear others are studying Classics or things like that, or like art history subjects like that, they go they must be rich, they must have rich parents.
All I can say to you and all of our listeners that is completely not true.
But do they have that kind of perception in… or stereotype in the UK as well？
To a certain extent, yes. That's because ancient Greek and Latin is mostly taught at private schools.
But the thing is, it's important to know that Classics and in particular, ancient Greek and Latin and the history and philosophy was the basis of education for centuries. So all educated people were expected to learn Latin and Greek.
I think even nowadays in the UK, people, let's just say from a probably class wise, more upper class or upper-middle class people, they were probably at some point in their education learned the Classics.
Yes, but you can also learn the Classics at state school as well, in particular history. I went to a state school.
State school就是公立学校呗.
Yeah, just an ordinary state school. I started learning Latin when I was at college, before I went to university, then I started learning Latin and Greek in more depth when I was at university.
But you mentioned this is the basis of education like with all educated people being expected to learn for a long time. That was the tradition.
That was the tradition. Medieval times, the renaissance, renaissance literally means rebirth, and we call it the renaissance because scholars started to find more Latin and Greek works, and that led to what is called humanism.
就是Renaissance是文艺复兴期, Humanism是人文主义 so that is closely linked with the study of cl
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