| A lecture (from the French 'lecture', meaning 'reading' [process]) is an oral presentation intended to present information or teach people about a particular subject, for example by a university or college teacher. |
讲述教学（起源于法语“lecture”，意为“阅读” 【过程】）是一种为传达信息或教授某一专题所采用的口述教学形式，大学或学院教授多采用此模式。 |
| Lectures are used to convey critical information, history, background, theories, and equations. |
讲述教学通常用来传达重要的信息，历史，背景，理论，与方程式。 |
| A politician's speech, a minister's sermon, or even a businessman's sales presentation may be similar in form to a lecture. |
政治家的演讲，神职人员的布道，甚至是商人的销售演说都与讲述教学有形式上的相似之处。 |
| Usually the lecturer will stand at the front of the room and recite information relevant to the lecture's content. |
通常，讲师会站在屋子的前端背诵关于其课程所包含的内容。 |
| Though lectures are much criticised as a teaching method, universities have not yet found practical alternative teaching methods for the large majority of their courses. |
尽管讲述教学这种方式很受非议，就大多数课程而言，各高等院校尚未摸索到其他可行的选择。 |
| Critics point out that lecturing is mainly a one-way method of communication that does not involve significant audience participation but relies upon passive learning. |
批评者指出讲述教学法仅仅是一种低互动，被动的，单一的沟通方式。 |
| Therefore, lecturing is often contrasted to active learning. |
所以，讲述教学法常常被引用为主动学习的反义词。 |
| Lectures delivered by talented speakers can be highly stimulating; at the very least, lectures have survived in academia as a quick, cheap, and efficient way of introducing large numbers of students to a particular field of study. |
杰出演讲者的讲述教学可以很有激发性，至少讲述教学法在学术界还有一席之地，因为用于向大量学生传授某项学科，讲述教学法仍然是目前最快捷，经济，高效的。 |
| Lectures have a significant role outside the classroom, as well. |
讲述教学在课堂外也扮演着重要的角色。 |
| Academic and scientific awards routinely include a lecture as part of the honor, and academic conferences often center on "keynote addresses", i.e., lectures. |
学术与科学奖项常常把讲座列为颁奖项目之一，与此同时，学术交流也常常是围绕着主题演讲所展开的。 |
| The public lecture has a long history in the sciences and in social movements. |
公开讲座在科学和社会运动中已有很渊远的历史。 |
| Union halls, for instance, historically have hosted numerous free and public lectures on a wide variety of matters. |
比如工会大厅，历史上就曾承办很多免费的，主题广泛的公开讲座。 |
| Similarly, churches, community centers, libraries, museums, and other organizations have hosted lectures in furtherance of their missions or their constituents' interests. |
相似的还有教堂，社区中心，图书馆，博物馆和其他机构，都曾用举办讲座以宣传其主张或促成其委托人的利益。 |
| Lectures represent a continuation of oral tradition in contrast to textual communication in books and other media. |
相反于书籍或其他形式的笔述交流，讲座传承了口述传达的传统。 |
| Lectures may be considered a type of grey literature. |
讲座也可以被理解为一种过度文学。 |
