Lily: No, no, we are here in the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.
Jean: 沒錯。我們現(xiàn)在就是在坐落在倫敦格林尼治的國家海事博物館。一進博物館的大門，就能聽到大海的濤聲。
Lily: You know, it's the leading maritime museum in the UK and the biggest of its kind in the world.
Jean: 世界上最大的海事博物館！ Is it really?
Lily: Well, let's check with Claire Warrior, one of the curators at the museum.
Jean: Claire Warrior 是博物館的館員。
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Well, this is the largest maritime museum in the world and it has some 2.5 million items in its collection. The museum has 21 galleries, over 3 different sites so we have the main museum here.
Lily: The National Maritime Museum has 2.5 million items in its collection. It's a huge museum with 21 galleries. So it's impossible to see everything in one go.
Jean: 一次全部看完確實是不太可能。那能不能給我們介紹一下博物館里不可錯過的那些最精彩的部分呢？
Lily: Yes but before we listen to Claire again, here are a few words to help you: uniform.
Jean: 軍裝。
Lily: The Battle of Trafalgar.
Jean: 特拉法加戰(zhàn)役。
Lily: Bullet.
Jean: 子彈。
Lily: Breeches.
Jean: 馬褲。
Lily: Swap.
Jean: 交換。
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Well, the museum has the uniform that Lord Nelson was wearing at the Battle of Trafalgar and you can see the bullet hole just below his shoulder, where the bullet struck him; and he later died. The breeches that he was wearing, that were cut off his body, are also in one of our galleries. We have material from the Titanic, which sank in 1912, including a watch that someone was wearing, amongst many other things.
Jean: 納爾遜將軍是一位英國的民族英雄，在1805年的特拉法加戰(zhàn)役中犧牲。
Lily: The uniform and the breeches he was wearing are both on display.
Jean: 展出的是他當時穿過的軍裝和馬褲。
Lily: Then, there is material from the Titanic on display.
Jean: 大家肯定都聽說過泰坦尼克號吧？不是電影，而是那艘真的在1912沉沒的巨輪。在博物館里還有泰坦尼號上的實物在這里展出 on display.
Lily: Such as a watch someone was wearing and many other things.
Jean: We're visiting the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.
Lily: Claire Warrior is taking us into one of its most popular galleries: the Explorer's Gallery.
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Well this is the Explorer's Gallery which is one of the most popular galleries in the museum. When you come into it you're standing on board a creaking ship with a horizon in the distance, and then you come into see a spice table, which shows some of the different spices that were taken across the oceans in the 16th century. We also have material relating to the mapping of the world at that time. And then finally, there's a small section on Polar exploration, including Franklin's expeditions and some of the early expeditions to find the North Pole.
Jean: 這真是一個絕佳的超級展館！我現(xiàn)在真的感覺像是站在一艘嘎吱作響的輪船上，都可以望得到海上遠處的地平線。一艘嘎吱作響的輪船就是 -
Lily: A creaking ship.
Jean: 還有遠方的地平線。
Lily: A horizon in the distance.
Jean: 然后你還會看到一個香料站臺，展出的都是在16世紀的時候橫跨各個大洋的當?shù)夭煌N類的香料。英語里的香料就是。
Lily: Spices. In this gallery you can see material relating to the mapping of the world. Mapping of the world.
Jean: 世界的圖表分布。
Lily: And finally, there is a small section on Polar exploration, including Franklin's expeditions.
Jean: 極地探險包括弗蘭克林的多次探險活動，他在19世紀的時候就探險到過北極。
Lily: The museum, with its 2.5 million collections, provides a snapshot of the maritime history of Britain.
Jean: Snapshot 快照。英國是一個島國，所以歷來和海洋有著密切的關(guān)系。參觀海事博物館也是了解英國的一個有效途徑。
Lily: That's very true. Let's finish with a clip from Claire. She said that the sea has been an important way in which Britain has defined itself.
Jean: 大海確實是英國國家和民族一個必不可少的組成部分。很高興今天帶著大家共同分享了這一次旅程，我們下次節(jié)目再見啦！
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Britain has such a close relationship to the sea and has had historically, and the sea has been such an important way in which Britain has defined itself that the Maritime museum provides a snapshot of how exploration, discovery, Empire, colonialism – all these things have contributed to Britain's place in the world and into Britain’s relationships with other cultures.
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