脏乱差：外国留学生对中国宿舍的印象.

　　最近，微博上一则很火的视频在中国大学流传，名为“史上最脏的女生宿舍”。关于中国的宿舍，一直颇受吐槽。由于人口基数大，中国学生宿舍一直都住的人数较多，而且宿舍空间过小，导致宿舍卫生问题一直很突出。一位外国留学生对此事件对中国宿舍发表了自己的看法。

史上最脏女生宿舍截图

　　A recent video aptly titled "dirtiest female dorm room ever," of a dormitory at a Chinese university, was recently uploaded and shared on social media, which attracted attention from netizens around the world for the students’ blatant display of filth and neglect.

　　最近名为“史上最脏女生宿舍”的视频被上传到网上，因其极度脏乱吸引了全世界网民的热议。

　　The room, strewn ankle-deep with rubbish and ruse, was inhabited by female students, one whom filmed the video and can be heard proclaiming, "Our room stinks so bad that two people have decided to leave."

　　视频显示，某学校女生宿舍内，地面被垃圾堆满，人只能在垃圾周围勉强落脚。其中一名女生正是拍摄此视频的人，说着：“我们宿舍已经熏走两个人了。”

　　Comments from concerned netizens asked how any human could live in such a place, as it was nearly impossible for the students to walk through the room without tripping on the trash. As a foreign student who attended Shanghai’s Fudan University for over six years, I can answer this question: Chinese students don’t mind living in such messy environments.

　　对此表示关注的网友在评论中问道，怎么会有人能住在这样的地方，不踩在垃圾上走，都不能出宿舍。而作为一名在上海复旦大学学习了6年多的外国留学生，我可以回答这个问题：中国学生并不介意住在这么脏的环境中。

　　Based on the countless dorms of Chinese classmates I visited over the years, disorderly rooms were quite common. Books and papers were everywhere, laundry was hung on clotheslines inside the rooms and old takeaway food cartons, garbage and dirty tissues were also just lt around the room for weeks or even months. Windows were rarely opened for fresh air.

　　这些年来，我去过无数的中国学生宿舍，杂乱的房间是相当普遍的。书籍和纸张到处摆放，衣服挂在宿舍内的绳子上，外卖盒、垃圾、脏纸巾在房间里已经了放了数周甚至数月。窗户很少打开通风换气。

　　Chinese students often give the excuse that they are "so busy" with their classes when asked why they don’t tidy up their living space, but usually these same students spend all their free time sleeping or playing computer games, so the truth is that they are just too lazy to clean.

　　当问及为何不整理居住空间时，中国学生经常借口说他们学业“太忙了”，但通常这些学生把所有的空余时间用来睡觉或玩电脑游戏，所以事实是，他们只是懒得清理。

　　Having said that, I think that there’s a bigger issue behind why Chinese dormitories are so disgusting and why these students don’t cherish their living space or adopt their rooms as their second home.

　　话虽如此，为什么这些学生不珍惜自己的生活空间，把宿舍作为自己的第二个家?这背后存在着一个更大的问题。

　　First, most Chinese university dorms don’t have any central heating systems or air-conditioning units. These rooms become unbearably cold in the winters and sweltering in the summers so that nobody can bear to study in them. Instead, students usually spend their days in the well-heated/cooled library and only go back to their rooms to sleep.

　　首先，大多数中国大学宿舍没有任何中央暖气系统或空调设施。这些宿舍冬天寒冷难耐，夏天闷热至极，以至于没人忍受得了在其中学习。于是，学生们通常白天在有空调的图书馆度过，只有晚上睡觉时才会回宿舍。

　　When I first arrived at Fudan, I got a kick out of seeing so many "towelheads" walking around. And no, I don’t mean this as a derogatory insult to turban-wearing Middle Easterners but rather all the Chinese students who have to cross campus in their bath towels, sandals and basins of shampoo and soaps to and from the school’s showers. I learned that the Chinese students did not have their own bathrooms and had to go to another building just to bathe. What’s worse is that there were no private shower stalls but only public, open shower rooms where all the boys or all the girls had to bathe together.

　　当我第一次来到复旦时，看到很多“毛巾头”，我惊呆了。不，当然我这不是对戴头巾的中东人的侮辱，我指的是那些去往学校澡堂或从中出来的中国学生，他们头戴浴巾，穿着拖鞋，拿着装有洗发水和香皂的脸盆。我了解到，中国学生没有自己的浴室，只好去另一栋楼洗澡。更糟糕的是，澡堂里有没有私人淋浴间，所有的男孩或所有的女孩都不得不在公共的区域一起洗澡。

　　Meanwhile, foreign students such as myself were entitled to extra-special treatment: we had air conditioning units in our rooms as well as our own private showers and bathrooms. My dormitory at Fudan Handan Campus was surrounded with a wire fence in order to isolate us from Chinese students (and prevent them from seeing how well we lived).

　　与此同时，正如我一样的外国学生则有权享有特殊待遇：我们的房间里有空调，也有自己的私人淋浴间和卫生间。我所在的复旦大学邯郸校区的宿舍周围都是铁丝网，将我们与中国学生隔开(防止他们看到我们澳际的生活条件)。

　　For sure, accommodation fees for foreigners and Chinese cannot be compared; they paid much, much less than us, so really it was a case of getting what you pay for. But for an educational institution that proclaims itself to teach "socialist values" to its students, it was hard to see any equality in our living standards.

　　可以肯定，中国学生和外国留学生的食宿费是不能比拟的;他们所付费用比我们少得多，所以，这其实是一种你为你的生活条件买单的情况。但是对于一个宣扬 “社会主义价值观”的教育机构，却很难看到生活水平上的平等。

　　I personally always believed that foreign students at Fudan (and any other university in China for that matter) should be allowed to live with the Chinese. And not just allowed, it should be a rule. Ethnic diversity in the dorms would benit everyone, as it would allow our best habits to rub off on each other - e.g. the intense study habits of Chinese students and the cleanliness and good hygiene of foreign students.

　　我个人始终认为，在复旦的外国留学生(其他任何中国的大学也是如此)应该被允许和中国学生住在一起。而且不只是允许，应该成为一种惯例。校园宿舍的种族多元化将使所有人受益，因为我们每个人都会表现出自己的最佳习惯，互相磨合，互相感染—— 例如中国学生勤奋的学习习惯和外国学生良好的卫生习惯。

　　Sure, individual students can be criticized for being untidy and lazy, but really it’s the mismanagement of Chinese universities and the misappropriation of funds that have led to their practically uninhabitable dormitory conditions.

　　当然，个别学生可以批评为邋遢懒惰，但实际上这是中国大学的不善管理和资金的不善利用导致了中国学生宿舍无法居住的事实。

　　总之，虽然中国学生的宿舍环境不怎么样，但是只要宿舍里的每一个人都注意一下自己的个人卫生和集体卫生，其实宿舍卫生问题也没有那么糟糕!