上“夜校”去班味？这届年轻人有自己的gap night！

在中国，夜校的概念已悄然转变。曾经的夜校主要是为成年人提供基础教育，而如今，它已成为年轻人追求个人兴趣和梦想的热土。随着大城市中夜校的兴起，数以万计的学员在繁忙工作后，走进这些课堂，寻求自我提升与心灵的寄托。无论是传统茶艺，还是手工艺品制作，夜校正为都市青年的生活增添色彩。In China, going to night school was once for adults, with the main aim being to reduce illiteracy.在中国，上夜校曾经是成年人的事，主要目的是为了减少文盲。Today, far from being to provide basic education, the main focus has changed to meeting the personal interests and fulfilling the aspirations of China"s youth.如今，中国教育的重点已不再是提供基础教育，而是转向满足个人兴趣和实现年轻人的愿望。Night schools are sweeping across major cities in China.夜校正在席卷中国各大城市。These schools offer short learning courses, usually with one class a week. A variety of art subjects are offered, not simple reading and writing.这些学校提供短期学习课程，通常每周一节课。提供各种艺术科目，而不是简单的阅读和写作。Subjects range from intangible cultural course velvet crafting to Chinese traditional tea ceremony (tea making) and barista courses.内容涵盖非物质文化课程丝绒制作、中国传统茶道（泡茶）和咖啡师课程。Hundreds of thousands of students are flocking to night classes after they get off work.成千上万的学生下班后涌向夜校。The pacesetter has been the Shanghai Night School, which offers a course which includes 12 classes led by masters in their fields for only 500 yuan ($70).上海夜校是这一领域的领头羊，其开设的课程包括 12 堂课，由各领域的大师主讲，学费仅为 500 元（约70 美元）。When Shanghai"s autumn 2023 semester enrollment began, attendance numbers were as high as 650,000 to get their places on one of the 10,000 courses.上海2023年秋季学期招生开始时，报名人数高达650，000人，为了争取获得10，000个课程名额中的一席之地。According to data from Chinese consumer shopping platforms Meituan and Dianping, searches for "night schools" have skyrocketed, increasing an astonishing 980 percent compared with last year.据中国消费购物平台美团和大众点评的数据，“夜校”的搜索量猛增，与去年相比增长了惊人的980%。Reviews for related hobby classes grew 226 percent year-on-year.相关兴趣课程的评论同比增长226％。"Far from spending a thousand for one or two trial training courses, the night school charges 500 yuan for 12 classes. This is more suitable for me," Yang Song, a student at Shanghai Night School told the Global Times.“夜校上12节课的收费是500元，比一些一两节试听课要花上千元的机构便宜很多。这更适合我，”上海夜校学生杨松（音译）告诉《环球时报》。Yang attended the night school classes for the first time in 2022 and she felt there was a huge rise of night schools, adding that "The classes in Shanghai Night School were snapped up within one minute and courses are hard to grab."杨女士2022年第一次参加夜校的课程，她感受到夜校的崛起非常迅速，“上海夜校的课程一分钟就被抢购一空，一课难求。”For the stressed-out urban youth, these schools promise self-cultivation, communication bonding, and most importantly, a happy environment lacking in their regular workplace.对于压力巨大的城市年轻人来说，这些学校承诺提供自我修养、沟通联系，最重要的是，提供他们在普通工作场所所缺乏的快乐环境。Yang attended evening classes to fulfill her aspirations and to meet new people, "I have many hobbies and I want to learn all the things that I didn"t take the time to learn when I was studying in the past."杨女士参加夜校是为了满足自己的愿望并结识新朋友，“我有很多爱好，我想学习所有过去读书时没有花时间学习的东西。”Night schools seem to offer an oasis from the burnout workplaces, even if only for a few hours each week.夜校似乎为人们提供了逃离职场倦怠的一片绿洲，即使每周只有几个小时。They represent a temporary breathing place for the youth.它们为年轻人提供了一个暂时的喘息之所。Dong Jiaxi is a 27-year-old white-collar office working in Beijing.董家熙（音译）是一名27岁的北京白领。Her daily life is normally boring, "Every day I go to work, go home, and lay down and play with my cellphone," she told the Global Times.她的日常生活通常很无聊，“每天我去上班，回家，躺下玩手机，”她告诉《环球时报》。Night school offers her a sense of passion and motion, she said, "studying at the night school is the equivalent of "recharging the batteries"."夜校给她带来了激情与动感，她说，“在夜校学习就相当于‘给自己充电’。”For the urban youth, life is gradually becoming boring, with nothing to do after work.对于城市青年来说，生活渐渐变得无趣，下班后无事可做。"I think we all need a platform and an avenue to develop our hobbies, to express ourselves, to improve ourselves, to find joy and meaning in our lives outside of work," Dong said.董说：“我认为我们都需要一个平台和途径来发展我们的兴趣爱好，表达自己，提高自己，在工作之外找到生活中的乐趣和意义。”Other cities have followed the trend in Shanghai. Major cities like Beijing, Shenzhen, Shandong, and Chongqing municipality have launched their own distinctive night schools catering to the interests of the locals.其他城市也纷纷效仿上海的做法。北京、深圳、山东和直辖市重庆也纷纷开办了符合当地特色的夜校。The Jinan Library, East China"s Shandong Province, will launch their first evening classes on December 18, Li Dehu, an employee in charge of night school of Jinan Library, told the Global Times.位于中国东部山东省的济南图书馆夜校负责人李德虎（音译）向《环球时报》透露，济南图书馆将于12月18日开办晚间课程。The library is billed as the first night school in Jinan.该图书馆被誉为济南第*所夜校。It offers short video-making course, intangible cultural heritage handicrafts class, and the skills for the workplace courses such as office software training and writing after they posted the questionnaire on their official Wechat account since November 16 to acquire people"s suggestions and options for evening classes.该校自11月16日起在官方微信公众号上发布调查问卷，征求公众对晚间培训班的建议和选择，并开设了短视频制作课、非物质文化遗产手工艺课、办公软件培训、写作等职场技能课等课程。The Library will be upgrading some lecture theaters and other rooms.图书馆将升级一些演讲厅和其他房间。Students will get an ID card to attend the night school, gaining access far from daytime students, Li noted.李老师指出，学生们将获得一张用于参加夜校的身份证，其使用权限与日间学生有所区分。Unlike the business night schools, Jinan night school, as a public welfare school, offers low prices charging only 20 yuan per class and they also provide after-school counseling.与商业夜校不同的是，济南夜校作为一所公益性学校，收费较低，每节课仅20元，还提供课后辅导。The highlight of the courses in Jinan night school is the teachers, who are highly qualified.济南夜校课程的一大亮点是师资力量雄厚。The school invites inheritors of intangible cultural heritage to teach students and their teachers are mostly from Jinan"s universities, Li told the Global Times.李老师向《环球时报》表示，该校邀请非物质文化遗产传承人来授课，且教师大多来自济南的高校。The night school with their own characteristics in Jinan, hope that they can more accurately meet the public cultural needs, enrich the cultural life of the city at night, and satisfy the needs of cultural life, skill learning, and physical and mental health, Li stressed.李老师强调，希望济南各夜校各具特色，能够更加精准地满足公众文化需求，丰富城市夜间文化生活，满足群众文化生活、技能学习、身心健康等需要。来源：每日英语听力丨双语精读END【声明】内容整理自网络，版权归原作者或平台所有，由星度小编进行综合整理，如有侵权请联系删除。想要了解或咨询语言课程信息欢迎添加我们的微信

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