The Millennium Bridge 千禧桥
[audio]http://language.chinadaily.com.cn/bbc/on_the_town/assets_3080178/bbc_on_the_town_69_millennium_bridge_au_bb.mp3[/audio][font=Verdana, 宋体, helvetica, arial, sans-serif][p=30, 2, left][b]John:[/b] June 2000, and London saw the opening of its first pedestrian-only bridge, the Millennium Bridge, between St Paul's Cathedral and the Tate Modern art gallery.[/p][p=30, 2, left]It was quite a day and within minutes hundreds of people had come to see the new bridge and to walk across it.[/p][p=30, 2, left][b]Oliver:[/b] I'm Oliver.[/p][p=30, 2, left][b]John:[/b] And I'm John, and in this edition of On the Town, we're investigating the Millennium Bridge.[/p][p=30, 2, left][b]Oliver:[/b] 千禧桥。[/p][p=30, 2, left][b]John:[/b] It was designed by the architect Lord Norman Foster, and has a very sleek, silvery appearance.[/p][float=right]
[p=30, 2, left][img=0,170]http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/language_tips/bbc/onthetown/attachement/jpg/site1/20100129/0013729e42d20ccc94be25.jpg[/img][/p][p=30, 2, left]The Millennium Bridge[/p][/float]
[p=30, 2, left][b]Oliver:[/b] 桥梁的设计者是一名建筑师 an architect. 银色的桥梁呈现出圆滑的造型。 A sleek and silvery appearance.[/p][p=30, 2, left][b]John:[/b] It has a very modern look, and it's also a suspension bridge.[/p][p=30, 2, left][b]Oliver:[/b] 吊桥 a suspension bridge.[/p][p=30, 2, left][b]Oliver:[/b] Now, I hear that there was a problem when the bridge opened to the public in 2000.[/p][p=30, 2, left][b]John:[/b] There was, yes. A big problem![/p][p=30, 2, left][b]Oliver:[/b] What was it?[/p][p=30, 2, left][b]John:[/b] The bridge wobbled![/p][p=30, 2, left][b]Oliver:[/b] It wobbled, 桥是晃动的![/p][p=30, 2, left][b]John:[/b] The day the bridge opened, hundreds of people walked across it and it started to sway in a disconcerting way! It took two years for the bridge to be secured and made rigid.[/p][p=30, 2, left][b]Oliver:[/b] 工程师们不得不给桥梁重新加固 rigid. 两年之后，千禧桥才得以再次向公众开放。接下来我们会听到桥梁设计者、建筑师 Norman Foster 接受BBC采访时的录音。[/p][p=30, 2, left][b]John:[/b] Did the architect find it frustrating that the bridge had to be closed for two years?[/p][indent][p=30, 2, left]Challenging I would say, but of course, if you measure the life of this structure in hundreds of years, it will be around as long as it has a useful life. It's not made of materials which are going to corrode, so if you measure that period that we’re talking about in the wider perspective, it's a blip. A pretty harrowing blip, but a blip.[/p][/indent][p=30, 2, right]Lord Norman Foster[/p]
[p=30, 2, left][b]John:[/b] Lord Norman Foster said it was challenging to have to keep the bridge closed for two years of repairs.[/p][p=30, 2, left][b]Oliver:[/b] 是具有挑战性的 challenging.[/p][p=30, 2, left][b]John:[/b] He said the bridge is not made of materials that are going to corrode.[/p][p=30, 2, left][b]Oliver:[/b] 千禧桥不会被腐蚀 to corrode.[/p][p=30, 2, left][b]John:[/b] So the length of closure is only a blip in the life of the bridge. A blip is a very short period of time.[/p][p=30, 2, left][b]Oliver:[/b] 建筑师说对于将长时间存在的千禧桥来讲，关闭整修的两年是非常短的，仅仅是一个微不足道的小点儿 a blip.[/p][p=30, 2, left][b]John:[/b] Now that the bridge has been made rigid, what do the pedestrians who walk across it think of it?[/p][indent][p=30, 2, left][b]Man:[/b] It's like a carnival, everybody is just talking about the bridge, and the construction and the wind. We’ve not had a wobble yet, it doesn’t feel like jelly.
[b]Girl:[/b] It doesn’t wobble anymore.
[b]Older Woman:[/b] Well, I'm a bridge freak, and having not seen it before I came down especially to see it, and walking over, I thought it was rather beautiful to look at. It’s a bicycle-friendly, pedestrian-friendly bridge. There is, I'm afraid, in the wind, a slight vibration. But as somebody pointed out to me, if there weren’t a vibration at all we’d have to worry. Walking over it, it looks rather beautiful.
[b]French Man:[/b] Well it's absolutely terrific. It’s my last day in London. I've been here in May last year, when it couldn't open, and I couldn't cross it. And today's the last day. Look at that![/p][/indent][p=30, 2, right]Visitors at the Millennium Bridge[/p]
[p=30, 2, left][b]John:[/b] So now people seem to like the Millennium Bridge. One woman said she was a bridge freak.[/p][p=30, 2, left][b]Oliver:[/b] 那位年纪大的女性说她自己是一个桥梁迷，a bridge freak 意思是说她是一个桥梁爱好者。[/p][p=30, 2, left][b]John:[/b] She said it was bicycle and pedestrian friendly.[/p][p=30, 2, left][b]Oliver:[/b] 方便步行和骑自行车。[/p][p=30, 2, left][b]John:[/b] She felt some light vibration when she was walking on the bridge.[/p][p=30, 2, left][b]Oliver:[/b] 轻微振动 light vibration.[/p][p=30, 2, left][b]John:[/b] But with a suspension bridge there has to be some movement.[/p][p=30, 2, left][b]Oliver:[/b] But not so much that it wobbles![/p][p=30, 2, left][b]John:[/b] Exactly. Well, we’ll be talking to you about more interesting places in the UK in the next On the Town, so listen out for that.[/p][p=30, 2, left][b]Oliver:[/b] 记住，你可以登陆我们的网页，了解更多信息网址是 [url]www.bbcchina.com.cn[/url], 然后，点击 Learning English.[/p][p=30, 2, left][b]John:[/b] See you next time.[/p][p=30, 2, left][b]Oliver:[/b] Bye.[/p][/font] Millennium is so far from us and we are all 11 years older. We can't live long enough to experience the next Millennium, so just do and cherish. good
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