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英女王60周年“钻石庆典”璀璨落幕

2012-06-24来源:CNN

London’s mayor Boris Johnson says, after the elapsing of the past few days, he doubts if there’re any Britains who want to ditch the Queen and turn the country into a republic.I spoke to Mayor Boris Johnson during the celebrations at Trafalgar Square.Well, we obviously also have to turn our attention to the London Olympics.

Mr. Mayor, thank you for this,

Well, my pleasure, but we’re all really toenails next to Her Majesty the Queen. This event is a massive opportunity I think for people of London to say 'thank you' to her for 60 years of incredible service to this country. And I think it’s been quite remarkable how united the country has been in getting that over to her

钻石庆典

What has been so interesting is the way in which the four days have all been very different and sent very different messages right the way through to this morning at St. Paul'sCathedral.

Yes, it was a great service this morning at St. Paul's, I think the concert last night was fantastic, for the real stunt thing that I think for me was that incredible flotilla, that sort of jolly version of ? that we put on, a real, a real...

I stood there for 4 hours

Actually balmy British event, but I think it was successful and never mind the rain, I mean  it was a great, great success.

And as for the Queen, here she is, her home is in London, London is where it’s based, also the country and The Commonwealth, and the city has come together spectacularly.

Yes, I mean if the Queen is the star, London is the, you know, the No.2 player in this sort of thing. London has put on, I think, a fantastic performance, everything has worked well. The transport system performed very well, and that’s a good omen for me , you know-not counting my chick, that’s a good omen for me in the run-up to the Olympic Games.

Let’s talk about the Olympics briefly, because this is the run-up also important, now you've really ...

Some people would say this is important.

Alright, but now we’re going full helter-skelter  to the Olympics, are we ready?

We are, and as people may know around the world, we put a huge amount of investment into London’s transport networks, upgraded the tube, built new lines, the Stratford site can be fantastic, the people will find wonderful bike-hire scheme and they get new buses on the streets, so

Any idea to get out of theairpot?

And as you know those are commitments to making sure that nobody waits more than 45 minutes, getting through, over an average rate of 25 minutes to get from the plane through to the other side, so we're working very hard to make the people’s arrival as comfortable as you.