Handwriting（手写）

　　1 Do you prefer to write letters by hand or by computer?

　　你喜欢用手写还是用电脑写信?

　　I, of course, prefer to write letters by email on the computer. In recent years I think my handwriting has gone downhill to be honest. I can't write as nicely as I used to because I barely get any practice apart from perhaps making lecture notes or shopping lists or scrawling down my ideas on paper. So, if I have to write a letter then I can write faster, clearer and easier on a computer. Computers are way more convenient for writing letters.

　　当然，我更喜欢用电脑上的电子邮件写信。近年来，说实话，我觉得我的笔迹已经走下坡路了。我不能像以前那样写得很好，因为除了做讲课笔记或购物清单或在纸上写下我的想法之外，我几乎没有任何练习。因此，如果我必须写信，那么我可以在电脑上写得更快、更清楚、更容易。计算机写起信来更方便。

　　2 Do you think computers might one day replace handwriting?

　　你认为计算机有一天会取代手写吗?

　　I think they already basically have, at least in most communications today – from study, to work, to messages, in almost every sphere of life, I think we type on phones and computers and rarely actually write anything by hand. So, yeah, I think it has already happened that computers have replaced handwriting, almost entirely.

　　我认为现在基本上已经替代了，至少在今天的大多数通信中--从学习、工作到信息，几乎在生活的每一个领域，我认为我们用手机和电脑打字，很少真正用手写东西。所以，是的，我认为已经发生了，电脑已经取代了手写，几乎完全取代。

　　3、How can children today improve or practice their handwriting?

　　今天的儿童如何提高或练习他们的手写能力?

　　Children usually learn to write Chinese characters in school. Still today this is learned initially by hand, so that the children can learn to recognize Chinese – and one of the best ways to imprint the characters in the memory, is through writing. So, we have quite a strict education in terms of learning to write, from a young age. I think this is the main practice that kids get with handwriting today. They have to write a lot in school by hand still, at least in their early years.

　　儿童通常在学校学习写汉字。今天，这仍然是最初通过手写来学习，以便孩子们能够学会识别中文--而将汉字印在记忆中的最好方法之一就是通过书写。因此，在学习写字方面，我们有相当严格的教育，从小就开始。我想这是今天孩子们在书写方面的主要练习。他们在学校里仍然要用手写很多东西，至少在他们的早期阶段。

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