這個外國網友的提問，為世界揭示了多面的中國！_風聞

近日，一位即將赴中國留學的網友在quora上，提出了這樣一個老生常談的話題：

生活在中國，是怎樣的一種感受？

1、Chris Ebbert, Innovation Advisor

I lived in Shanghai for three years and worked at a university. I lived in an average apartment, in an average area of town, and took the metro to work.

我在上海生活了三年，在一家大學裏上班。我住在一個普通的公寓裏，位於一個普通的城鎮上，坐地鐵上班。

I would say it was a pleasure.Life in Shanghai is inspiring, friendly, and rewarding. I also regularly visited Beijing and Wuxi, which had a lot to offer, as well.

我覺得很榮幸。上海的生活是令人鼓舞的，友好的和有益的。我還經常去北京和無錫，也非常不錯。

Generally speaking, life in China is full of challenges and beauty. I think I will miss this place.

總的來説，中國的生活充滿了挑戰和美麗。我想我會想念這個地方的。

2、Hold the orange peel

Chinese are great fun; energetic, witty, resourceful, and quick to share a laugh or a smile; I’ve had a blast with the people there! Even ended up taking one home with me, first to England, then on to Sweden.

中國人很有趣；精力充沛，機智，足智多謀，而且很快就可以分享一個笑聲或一個微笑；我和那裏的人玩得很開心！甚至還帶了一個回家，先是去英國，然後去瑞典。

Yes, right now she is beside me, my beautiful Chinese wife!

是的，現在她就在我身邊，我美麗的中國妻子！

3、Bear hunting

Yes, I think China is a magical place. Not only Chinese people are interesting, but there are many interesting foreigners here.

是的，我認為中國是一個神奇的地方。不僅中國人很有趣，這裏還有很多有趣的外國人。

You will meet more interesting people in China than in your country. Westerners who come to China are usually very mixed, most of them have extraordinary views, but I prefer to play and chat with Chinese people, especially in terms of history. Insights, very interesting!

在中國你會遇到比在你的國家更有趣的人。來中國的西方人通常很雜，他們大多有着非同尋常的見解，但我更喜歡和中國人玩和聊天，特別是在歷史方面。真知灼見，非常有趣！

4、Francisco

In China everything grows so fast, before you know it, you are the managing director of something, with your own team; China “made me,” I can say that for certain, because I was given opportunities there I never would have had at home.

在中國，一切都發展得如此之快，不知不覺中，你（就會成為）是某項目的總經理，擁有自己的團隊；中國“造就了我”，我可以肯定地説，因為我在那裏得到了我在國內從未有過的機會。

When I came to China from New Zealand, I went to nine countries. At that time, I didn’t have expectations for China, but I was surprised here.

當我從新西蘭來到中國時，我去了九個國家。當時，我對中國沒有期望，但我在這裏感到驚喜。

5、Alice

China’s cities are exciting, huge and dazzling. They are full of opportunities and strange things. Delicious food, beautiful scenery and long cultural history will entertain you infinitely.

中國的城市令人興奮，巨大而耀眼。他們充滿了機遇和奇怪的事情。美味的食物，美麗的風景和悠久的文化歷史將無限地款待您。

6、Ted Garza

Hahaha, China is full of opportunities？

哈哈哈，中國到處都充滿機會？

You are completely wrong! You should hear the real stories about living in China. Not the propaganda bs it is spread in Quora. And remember, India in a bit more than 10 years will be the 3rd economy power in the world! That’s being said by most economists. And India is achieving this through democracy.

你完全錯了！你應該去了解一下真正的中國生活故事。不要聽信本站上的一些政治宣傳。還有印度十年後就會成為世界第三大經濟體！這是大部分經濟學家的觀點。而印度正是通過民主實現了這一點。

7、Cole Masters

Enough, shut up Indians!

夠了，閉嘴印度人！

When you say this, I doubt if you have ever been to China!

當你這麼説的時候，我懷疑你是否去過中國！

Rural life is a way of life that cultivates sentiment, but people who stay in the countryside still need to see it with their own eyes, and then evaluate things outside the countryside better!

鄉村生活是一種陶冶情操的生活方式，但留在鄉村的人還是需要親眼看看，然後更好地評價鄉村以外的事情！

Otherwise, the wanton evaluation full of nonsense, in exchange for only one kind of response: the country bumpkin!

否則，肆意評價充滿了無稽之談，換來的只有一種回應：鄉巴佬！

8、Kiribati

Living in China is both a pleasure and a torment, sometimes at the same time. Why do you say that? When I sit in a Chinese restaurant on the street enjoying delicious food and people coming and going, it’s an incomparable pleasure,

生活在中國既是一種快樂，也是一種折磨，有時候同時存在。為什麼這麼説？當我坐在街邊的中國餐館裏享受着美味的食物和人來人往時，那是一種無與倫比的快樂。

but if I drag the time back to 20 minutes ago, everything seems not so happy. First of all, I need not to be suffocated in the crowded crowd of the subway, and after successfully arriving at my favorite restaurant, there is a long dragon that can’t be seen. Of course, you should The prayer “line up” exists…

不過如果把時間拉回到20分鐘前，一切就顯得不太快樂了，首先我需要在地鐵擁擠的人羣中不被窒息，在順利的抵達我鐘意的餐館之後，還有一眼望不到頭的長龍，當然，你應該祈禱“排隊”的存在…

9、The ice age is coming！

I live in a second-tier city (Guiyang) in China’s third poorest province (Guizhou).I haven’t had the ‘normal’ Beijing/Shanghai/Guangzhou expat experience.

我住在中國第三窮省（貴州）的一個二線城市（貴陽）。我沒有“正常”的北京/上海/廣州外派經歷。

I’m a star. That’s right. Students literally clap for me when I walk into the classroom. Children approach me and ask for my we-chat. People ask to take pictures of me or sneak them on the subway. And when I start speaking Chinese? Forget about it. I’ve done literally nothing special and get to feel like Ryan Gosling for it.

（在這裏）我是明星。沒錯。當我走進教室時，學生們真的為我鼓掌。孩子們走近我，讓我和他們聊聊天。人們要求給我拍照或者在地鐵上偷拍。當我開始説中文的時候？算了吧。我真的沒做什麼特別的事，感覺就像瑞安·戈斯林一樣。

I’m catching a glimpse of the real China:I’m surrounded on one side by regular city-dwellers and on the other by slash-and-burn peasants. I meet the richest of the rich and poorest of the poor.

我瞥見了真實的中國：一邊是普通的城市居民，另一邊是刀耕火種的農民。我遇見最富有的人和最貧窮的人。

I schmooze with businessmen and government officials and cackle with taxi drivers whose mandarin is worse than mine. Every day I’m faced with the real China, always in flux。

我和商人和政府官員閒聊，和出租車司機開玩笑，他們的普通話比我的差。每天我都要面對真實的中國，總是變化無常。

Everything is so real, there is no malicious derogation, there is no vain praise, this is the real China, a lovely China, a developing China!

一切都那麼真實，沒有惡意貶損，沒有虛誇，這才是真正的中國，一個可愛的中國，一個發展中的中國！

10、Adam Hu

I get what you’re saying, but it’s misleading to say that the split between rural and and city is the “real” China - it’s 900 million vs 400 million

我明白你的意思，但是你説城市和農村的分野才是“真正”的中國——9億 VS 4億人。

Guiyang is ranked 56/61 tier 2 and above cities in China for GDP.

在中國61個二線和以上城市裏面，貴陽排名56。

Like, rural/suburban Louisianna or Kansas isn’t the “real” US, they are ranked near the bottom in same terms.

就像路易斯安娜和堪薩斯城的郊區和農村地區不是“真正”的美國一樣，它們在美國的排名與貴陽在中國的排名差不多。

Frankly I think the term is useless. There’s no such thing as the real China. It’s all real. But it certainly doesn’t represent the median, definitely not the average.

坦白説，我認為這個形容詞是毫無意義的。根本就不存在所謂的真正的中國。所有一切都是真實的。但是它絕對無法代表中間水平，更無法代表平均水平。

However, it seems that our media are not willing to take such an objective view of the problem. They always want to expose the worst side of China and tell everyone that this is China!

但是，我們的媒體似乎並不願意這麼客觀的看待問題，他們總是希望揭露中國最壞的一面，並且希望藉此告訴所有人，這就是中國！

11、Eric Flores

I travel often and cheaply: Tibetan areas are some of the most remote on the planet. Thanks to China’s new highways and railway system, I spent a week climbing a random mountain, alone, for a pittance.

我經常旅行，而且價格低廉：藏區是地球上最偏遠的地區之一。多虧了中國新的公路和鐵路系統，我花了一個星期的時間，獨自一人爬上了一座崎嶇的山峯。

Getting there and back was not only easy but fun. And just enough bad things happened to make it all a true adventure。

往返不僅容易，而且很有趣。（攀登期間）驚險的遭遇足夠讓這一切成為一次真正的冒險。

Here, I have witnessed the harmony of the Chinese people, which was deliberately ignored in the BBC. I think we were probably cheated.

在這裏，我見證了中國人民的和諧，這是BBC故意忽視的。我想我們可能被騙了。

12、Chris Ebbert

When I first started my job as a foreign teacher in a private primary school.

我第一次在私立小學當外教的時候。

At 6:30 in the morning, the trumpet starts to ring to wake up the students. They go to class at 7:40, have lunch for an hour, finish class at 5:40 p.m., have dinner for an hour, and then go back to class until 10 p.m. The hour at noon is actually a nap time, because students, teachers and other staff are not fully asleep at night.

早上6點半，喇叭開始響，把學生叫醒。他們7點40分上課，吃午飯一小時，下午5點40分下課，吃晚飯一小時，然後回到教室一直到晚上10點。中午的時間實際上是午睡時間，因為學生、老師和其他工作人員晚上沒有完全睡着。

However, for this “unacceptable” work, all Chinese colleagues are used to it!

然而，對於這項“不可接受”的工作，所有中國同事都習以為常！

Well, I think all aspects of China are good, which is hard to accept, but from here I seem to understand why this country has developed so fast in the past decades - everyone is busy, they are competing against the clock!

好吧，我覺得中國各方面就好，就是這一點難以接受，不過從這裏我似乎也明白了這個國家為何在過去的幾十年裏能如此高速的發展——每個人都很忙碌，他們爭分奪秒！

不可否認，相較於其他國外網友對中國的印象，外國網友“Chris Ebbert”所描述的中國生活，則可謂更加真實：

每個人都很忙碌，他們爭分奪秒！

正如網友“The ice age is coming!”所説的那樣：

我瞥見了真實的中國：一邊是普通的城市居民，另一邊是刀耕火種的農民。我遇見最富有的人和最貧窮的人。

一切都那麼真實，沒有惡意貶損，沒有虛誇，這才是真正的中國，一個可愛的中國，一個發展中的中國！