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隨著抖音海外版（TikTok）面臨美國方面的打壓，與其相關的美國從業人員同樣迎來難題。近日，就有美國老師稱，自己可能因為在網上教中國孩子英語，而面臨大麻煩。
據美國國家公共電臺（NPR）報道，這些老師被迫捲入了特朗普對TikTok發動的“戰爭”。
Kristie Hunter之前是美國公立學校的老師，但是最近兩年來她的大部分生計來源都是靠在網上教中國孩子說英語。她就職於字節跳動旗下的GOGOKID公司，提供一對一的英語語言教學服務。同時，字節跳動也是短視頻軟件TikTok的母公司。
Kristie Hunter is a former public school teacher who for the past two years has made most of her money teaching children in China how to speak English online. Hunter works for GOGOKID, a one-on-one English language tutoring service owned by Chinese tech giant, ByteDance, which is the parent company of the hugely popular short-form video app TikTok.
Hunter說：“我自己曾經這樣想，為字節跳動這樣一家擁有TikTok的巨頭公司工作，很酷是吧？”然而，這麼酷的事情很快就變味了：她的工作崗位可能將不復存在。
"I used to think, 'We work for ByteDance, this huge company. They own TikTok. That's pretty cool, right?'" Hunter said. But now, the cool factor has morphed into something else: the threat of her job disappearing.
今年8月6日，美國總統特朗普的一紙禁令直接針對TikTok以及所有字節跳動相關的附屬公司。
U.S President Trump's Aug. 6 executive order, which was aimed at TikTok, outlawed American business with not just the video-sharing app, but with all of ByteDance's subsidiaries.
這也意味著，和Hunter一樣在GOGOKID工作的近4000名美國教師不得不面對危機。Hunter說，這段時間她感到恐懼、困惑，壓力很大。
That has thrown the future of Hunter and nearly 4,000 other American teachers contracted to work with GOGOKID into real peril. "It's been a very scary, confusing, highly stressful time," Hunter said.
《洛杉磯時報》網站：特朗普對TikTok的戰爭可能傷害到這些教師：“我的家庭完了”
在《洛杉磯時報》網站的這篇報道中，介紹了一位名叫Christa Kacer-Reynolds的女教師，她經常在美國時間凌晨3點半起床準備課程，然後從5點開始花幾個小時的時間通過電腦屏幕教對面的中國孩子說英語，包括最簡單的顏色、食物等等。有些孩子剛開始跟她上課的時候年齡還很小，Christa Kacer-Reynolds說自己很愛這份工作，也很愛她的學生，就好像是“看著孩子們學習並且長大。”
這項工作的報酬也很可觀，Kacer-Reynolds 說：“財富上，這是很大一筆錢。我們用這些報酬償還債務。”
The money helps, too. “Financially, it’s a big chunk,” Kacer-Reynolds said. “We’ve been really working on using the money to pay down debt.”
在特朗普的禁令下，所有美國公民與字節跳動的“交易”都被禁止。違反者可能會被處以30萬美元的罰款，甚至面臨刑事訴訟。禁令將從9月20日起生效。
Under Trump's order targeting TikTok, "any transaction" between U.S. citizens and ByteDance would be banned. Violating the directive could result in a $300,000 fine, or even criminal prosecution. The order, which is being legally challenged by TikTok, is set to take effect on Sept. 20.
對此禁令，Hunter說：“通過電腦教一個5歲的小孩子用英文說你好，可能我就要坐牢了。因為這種所謂的‘國家安全風險’而簽署的寬泛禁令，很多人可能會流離失所，失去積蓄。”
"I could be put in jail for teaching a five-year-old how to say hello from across the computer," Hunter said. "We've got families that could potentially lose their homes and lose their savings because of this broad stroke of the pen because of this 'national security risk.'"
Kacer-Reynolds也深有感觸，“我最大的擔憂是罰款，比拿不到薪酬還要害怕，最大的恐懼是違法。”
“My biggest worry is being fined,” said Kacer-Reynolds.“That scares me much more than not getting paid — my biggest concern is breaking the law,” Kacer-Reynolds said.
NPR援引美國前司法部門律師Brian Fleming的話表示，特朗普的禁令並沒有十分明確說明字節跳動的附屬公司或交易的違法條件。這樣一來，GOGOKID的教師很有可能受到影響。“禁令的語言太寬泛了，”Fleming表示。
Brian Fleming, a former Justice Department lawyer who focused on enforcing economic sanctions, said Trump's order does not specify what subsidiaries or transactions with ByteDance will soon be outlawed. As a result, he said it is possible that GOGOKID instructors will be impacted. "The language of the order is extremely broad," Fleming said.
至於這些教師們，NPR寫道，美國與TikTok對峙期間，依賴GOGOKID賺取教學收入的教師們難免要戰戰兢兢了。
In the midst of the U.S. standoff with TikTok, GOGOKID teachers who have come to rely on income from the teaching service are feeling jittery.
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