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Lily: Hello and welcome to BBC Learning English from London. I am Lily.
Sun Chen: I am Sun Chen. 今天我跟Lily要帶你去的地方，是全世界最大的城市歷史博物館。Can you guess which one it is?
Lily: The largest city history museum in the world? Well, it has to be The Museum of London, doesn't it?
Sun Chen: Yes. You're right. Here is Marian Williams, one of the press officers at the museum:
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The Museum of London is one of the biggest social history museums in the world and covers an enormous amount of history to do with the people that are at the heart of this country.
Sun Chen: 倫敦博物館收錄了一部浩瀚的歷史。 Enormous.
Lily: Yes, when we talk about the size of a museum we normally refer to the amount of the collection.
Sun Chen: 這里還擁有相當巨大的館藏。 How big is the collection of this museum then?
Lily: I talked to Alex Werner, a curator at the museum.
Sun Chen: Curator 就是館員。我們先來聽聽她是怎么跟我們介紹的。他跟我們說到了幾個很有意思的數字，你可得好好聽。一會兒我們還要考考你。
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Hello, my name is Alex Werner. I'm a curator at the museum of London. We are standing here in what is really the world's largest city history museum. We have an enormous collection with over 2 million objects in our collection. Not all the objects are on display but it's a very rich and varied museum.
Lily: Did you catch the number of objects in their collection, Sun Chen?
Sun Chen: Yes, it has over 2 million objects 兩百萬件藏品 in their collection.
Lily: And that's enormous!
Sun Chen: 巨大的。
Lily: It’s a very rich and varied museum.
Sun Chen: 真的是一家館藏豐富，涵蓋面齊全的博物館。
Lily: London is one of the most dynamic and cosmopolitan cities in the world and The Museum of London tells its story.
Sun Chen: 生機勃勃的國際大都市。It's definitely one of the best places to visit!
Lily: Then there is the extra benefit for students learning English: you’ll learn words and expressions associated with the famous landmarks of London and of the different periods of its history.
Sun Chen: 在這兒，你還能學到很多有關倫敦著名景點的新詞匯，還有新的表達方式。這些詞匯，還都代表著倫敦的各個歷史時期。 Famous landmarks of London and the different periods of its history.
Lily: Well, talking about the famous landmarks of London, let's have a quick test of your knowledge of some of the tourist attractions. Ready? Here we go:
S and L: Well, The Tower of London; 倫敦塔 Tower bridge; 塔橋Buckingham Palace 白金漢宮; The Houses of Parliament 議會大廈; St Paul’s Cathedral 圣保羅大教堂。
Lily: Well done Sun Chen! All of the above places are famous landmarks of London and they attract thousands of visitors from all over the world everyday.
Sun Chen: 我們下面要聽聽 Alex 給我們做的介紹。你可得聽好了，每年倫敦博物館，要接待多少來這兒參觀的人呢？
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The Museum of London as a whole has over 400,000 visitors a year so it's one of the major historical museums that visitors come to in London.
Sun Chen: 聽到了嗎？每年來倫敦博物館參觀的人數，高達四十萬。
Lily: This figure includes foreign tourists as well as local visitors.
Sun Chen: 我們在這兒，還采訪到了兩位游客。他們一個是從澳大利亞來的，一個是從西班牙來的。所以啊，他們說話的時候，都多少有那么一點兒口音。
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My name's Robert. I'm from Australia. The museum itself is a fantastic museum actually. From the beginning it shows you from BC all the way through Medieval into the Tudor and Stuart, very good exhibits and displays.
My name is Monica. I'm from Spain. I like the museum very much. It's very interesting because you can see all the history of the city and the Roman Time, it's great.
S and L: There is some good vocabulary related to the different periods of history: prehistoric period 公元前; medieval 中世紀; Tudor 都鐸王朝; Stuart; 斯圖亞特王朝。Then the Roman time 接下來就是羅馬時代。
Lily: Both visitors speak highly of the Museum; one says it is a fantastic museum.
Sun Chen: Yes, and the other says it's very interesting and great. What do you think of the museum Lily?
Lily: Well, I think it's as rich and exciting as London itself. It actually reminds me of the famous quotation by Samuel Johnson: "If you are tired of London you are tired of life."
Sun Chen: 有人說，你要是厭倦了倫敦；你也就厭倦了人生。既然這個博物館有這么多能抓住你眼球的東西，你逛起來，肯定不會覺得累。
Lily: However, as the saying goes - seeing is believing. So you must come and visit…
S and L: The Museum of London!
Sun Chen: It's right in the heart of the city.
Lily: And it's free of charge.
Sun Chen: 免費開放。
Lily: This is On the Town from BBC Learning English.
Sun Chen: Bye from both of us from London.
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