Crystal Palace 水晶宮
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The script of this programme 本節目臺詞
John: Hi there! Welcome to On The Town from a very interesting part of south London. I’m John, with me Oliver. We’re at Crystal Palace.
Oliver: 哦，水晶宮。
John: At Crystal Palace one of Britain’s best loved football clubs used to play. It’s home to major athletics events, and there used to be an amazing palace.
Oliver: 不過，在我們開始今天節目之前要先澄清一件事，那就是現在的水晶宮根本就不是一座宮殿。 It isn’t a palace at all.
John: But there used to be a palace here in south London.
Oliver: What did it look like John?
John: Well the Crystal Palace got its name because it was a building made almost entirely of glass.
Oliver: 一座玻璃造的建筑，真是太讓人吃驚了。Tell us something about its history John. 它是什么時候建造的，在這里又發生過什么事情呢？
John: Well, it was built for a very specific purpose. A great exhibition, in fact The Great Exhibition of 1851.
Crystal Palace before the fire
Oliver: It must have been quite a spectacle. 在玻璃和鋼鐵造就的宮殿里展出著最新的工藝作品和現代設計。那會是一個多么輝煌的景象啊。A glass and iron palace.
John: Well we’ve been doing some research, and we’ve found an account written by a young woman who visited the Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace in 1851. She was impressed too and her name is Eloise.
Oliver: Eloise 是當時一個前去看展覽的小姐，她震驚于水晶宮的壯麗。下面是她在1851年的描述。
Crystal Palace, 1851. Today must have been one of the most marvellous of my life. Mama and Papa took me to the most delightful, beautiful, and simply thrilling buildings I have yet had cause to visit: "The Crystal Palace". It is the largest glass structure ever built in the world to this very date, and it houses the most prestigious spectacle of our age: "The Great Exhibition". Dear Queen Victoria herself decided upon its theme; the very latest modern artistic works and designs. Ah! This wonderful age in which we now live, one can but dream what the next excitement will be!
Eloise, visitor to the Great Exhibition in 1851
John: Amazing! Eloise was really impressed with the Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition. She said the building was "delightful", "beautiful", and "thrilling".
Oliver: 令人愉快的， delightful; 美麗的，beautiful; 和讓人震驚的，thrilling.
John: There was also another lovely phrase that Eloise used. She said the Great Exhibition of 1851 was "the most prestigious spectacle of our age", meaning it was the most important event that was happening in her lifetime.
Oliver: A great way to describe it. Eloise 說這個1851年的展覽是她那個年代最負盛名的展覽，the most prestigious spectacle.
John: Now, in 1936 those wonderful buildings met a terrible fate.
Oliver: 水晶宮被燒毀了!這就是這座美麗建筑的命數。That was its fate. 真是太傷感了。
John: We’ve found this amazing recording from the archives.
Oliver: John 專門查看了它們的檔案。The archives, 而且找到了水晶宮被燒毀時的記錄。
The Crystal Palace is completely destroyed. In the most spectacular night fire in living memory, the world famous glass building that has dominated Sydenham Hill for 82 years is enveloped from end to end in a sea of flames. Sweeping along the inflammable wood flooring, the blaze soon had the middle transept in its grip. Inside half an hour it was clear that the Crystal Palace was doomed.
BBC news archive report
John: What a tragedy, the palace was completely destroyed by fire.
Oliver: And it was the most spectacular fire in living memory. 這可能是某些人能夠記住的最厲害的大火了。
John: So that was the end of the great Crystal Palace.
John: Well after Crystal Palace burnt down, it became home to a great football club of the same name "Crystal Palace", but it’s also been the host of some great athletics events.
Oliver: 不少英國盛大的田徑比賽都在水晶宮舉行，這里也曾經是水晶宮足球俱樂部的主場。還記著范志毅和孫繼海嗎? 他們就是在水晶宮俱樂部開始他們的英國足球之旅的。
John: Well the palace has got quite a history hasn’t it and if you’re in London it’s worth a visit. Time to go now. Bye for now.
Oliver: 再見。
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