Lily: Hello, I'm Lily. Welcome to On the Town from BBC Learning English.
Sun Chen: 還有我孫辰。今天的城市掠影節目我們要向大家介紹的是英國著名的戰爭博物館。
Lily: Yes. We are taking you to the famous Imperial War Museum in London.
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(Sound of submarine) In the spring of 1941, the Royal Navy was equipped with more escorts of an improved design...
Sun Chen: 在英國戰爭博物館里，我們能見到各種各樣的戰車，武器，戰爭紀念品。在這家博物館里面，還有一個圖書館，一個攝影檔案館，還有其他的一些藝術藏品。
Lily: It is a well-known museum, not only in Britain, but throughout the world. I spoke with Terry Charman, the museum's historian. He started with what he considers to be the unique feature of the Imperial War Museum.
Sun Chen: 接待我們的是戰爭博物館史學家 Terry Charman.
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Well, I think the thing that is unique about the Imperial War Museum, perhaps not only in London but also worldwide, is that we attempt to record and display items relating to all aspects of international conflict since 1914, since August 1914 when the First World War broke out. Our main objective, of course, is to display to members of the public how war has shaped lives in the 20th and sadly in the 21st century.
Sun Chen: 他們的目標，就是力圖通過展品把國際沖突有聯系的各個方面都能體現出來。 All aspects of international conflicts.
Lily: Their main objective is to show people how war has shaped their lives.
Sun Chen: 戰爭是如何改變人們的生活。
Lily: That's right. What you see here in the museum is truly spectacular, with all kinds of military vehicles, airplanes and submarines.
Sun Chen: 各種各樣的戰車，還有戰斗機，和潛艇。這些讓人聽起來真是過癮。
Lily: Well, Terry told me that one of his female colleagues described it as the biggest boy's bedroom.
Sun Chen: 為什么叫最大的男生宿舍呢?
Lily: Let's listen.
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Speaking in the main gallery, the atrium of the museum, which one of my female colleagues has described as one of the biggest boy's bedroom in London, displaying as it does, tanks, guns and aircraft, including the most famous of all British aircraft, the super marine Spitfire, that helped to win the Battle of Britain in 1940. As well as, of course, the aircraft, we have on display a small one-man submarine from Germany and also the human torpedo that the Italians used in the Second World War. And of course, we have a large number of armoured fighting vehicles.
Sun Chen: 在中廳大廳，我們能看到坦克，各種各樣的槍支，還有飛機。這其中還包括英國歷史上最著名的功勛戰斗機，還有超級噴氣式戰斗機 Spitfire.
Lily: The Spitfire is very famous as it helped win the Battle of Britain in 1940.
Sun Chen: 這里還展出了二戰當中，從德國繳獲的一艘潛艇，還有一個從意大利繳獲的魚雷。 Torpedo.
Lily: And there are a large number of armoured fighting vehicles as well.
Sun Chen: 就是裝甲車。
Lily: And there is a unique item that visitors shouldn't miss.
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We have a unique item, the body of the fuselage of the aircraft that Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, flew to this country in, in May 1941.
Sun Chen: 聽到了嗎？還有二戰的時候，阿道夫?希特勒的副手魯道夫?赫斯在1941年五月來英國的時候，乘坐的飛機的機身外殼。 This is very unusual, isn't it?
Lily: Yes. It is. Notice we have come across a very unusual word here: 'fuselage' – it is spelled F.U.S.E.L.A.G.E. fuselage.
Sun Chen: 就是飛機的機身外殼。
Lily: There are lots of other unusual exhibits as well. I asked Terry how big their collection is.
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What I say to people always is that what the visitor sees here in the galleries is really only the tip of the iceberg of the museum. Because not only are we a museum displaying the objects like the tanks and guns and the aircraft, and of course the smaller objects – and documents as well and photographs. But we have - we are an archive. We have enough film in our archive, I'm assured by colleagues in the film department, that if you sat down and watched it, it would now take you 22 years of solid viewing.
Lily: What you see here is only the tip of the iceberg.
Sun Chen: Tip of the iceberg 這還只是冰山的一角。除了這些展品之外，這里還有非常豐富的檔案資料。
Lily: Yes, a huge film archive. You know, it would take you 22 years of solid viewing.
Sun Chen: Wow! 要看完，得花上22年的時間。
Lily: Amazing! And there is nothing like it in the whole of Britain. For people who are interested in military technology, then the Imperial War Museum is the place to visit.
Sun Chen: 我們也希望，你能通過今天的節目，了解更多的軍事詞語。
Lily: Ok, we'll see you next time!
Sun Chen: Bye.
Lily: Bye.
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