BBC都市掠影:British Museum 大英博物馆

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Neil: OK Jean, keep your eyes closed until I say.
Jean: Oh, where have you brought me this time?

Neil: Here’s a clue. Where do you think you can see Egyptian mummies, ancient Greek statues and even Chinese Buddhist paintings under one roof?

Jean: Hmmm… 可以看到埃及木乃伊，古希腊雕像，还有中国佛教画卷. Let me see!

Neil: OK, OK. Open your eyes.

Jean: Ah, it’s the British Museum. 原来我们是在大英博物馆啊.

Neil: Welcome to On the Town from BBC Learning English, I’m Neil. This is the programme where we visit some of the most interesting places in London. Today we’re at the British Museum.

Jean: It’s probably the most famous museum in London. But the building looks like something from ancient Greece or Rome. 大英博物馆看上去很像是一座古希腊或者古罗马的建筑。

Neil: Well, that’s the interesting thing. Most of the British Museum isn’t about Britain at all.

Jean: What do you mean?

Neil: Let’s go inside and meet Hannah Bolton, who works at the museum.

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The British Museum is really the collection of the cultural achievement of humanity. So to be a bit more specific, it contains collections of material, objects made by people throughout time, across the centuries, across the globe.

Jean: So, it’s called the British Museum, but actually it contains objects from all over the world.

Neil: Hannah says it’s a collection of the cultural achievement of humanity. Cultural achievement.

Jean: 文化方面的成就.

Neil: Humanity.

Jean: 人文.

Neil: Because it contains objects made by people throughout time, across the centuries and across the globe.

Jean: So, what are the highlights – 都有什么精彩的展品呢？

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The Egyptian mummies are always incredibly popular with children and adults alike because there’s obviously a fascination with ancient Egyptian culture, but we also have wonderful classical collections: material from ancient Greece. We have really iconic objects like the Rosetta Stone, and then we have really wonderful, beautifully made objects that are perhaps less well-known, but things like extravagant turquoise mosaics from Mexico and we have wonderful masks from Africa.