BBC都市掠影:The Horniman Museum 霍尼曼博物馆

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Neil: Welcome to On the Town from BBC Learning English, the programme where we visit interesting places in Britain. I'm Neil.
Oliver: And I'm Oliver 我是 Oliver。

Neil: We're at a very different type of museum.

Oliver: What's different about it?

Neil: Well, here's Andrew Willshire, who works at the Horniman Museum in south London.

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Well the Horniman Museum provides a window onto our world. We have a fine collection of musical instruments, anthropological items and natural history specimens alongside some living collections where we have an aquarium and sixteen acres of gardens.

Neil: We're at the Horniman Museum, which he says is a window onto our world.

Oliver: 霍尼曼博物馆。 A window on the world 意思就是在那里你可以看到来自世界各地的、数量众多的展品。从人类历史到自然世界，应有尽有。

Neil: There are musical instruments, anthropological items.

Oliver: 人类学方面的展品。

Neil: Natural history specimens.

Oliver: 动植物学，博物学 natural history。 标本 specimens.

Neil: And there's an aquarium.

Oliver: 水族馆。

Neil: And a sixteen acre garden.

Oliver: 就是相当于六万五千平方米的面积。Wow, this place sounds really interesting. Let's start with the musical instruments.

Neil: Well, there are one and a half thousand instruments from all over the world here from past to present, including some very strange ones from little-known cultures and civilisations.

Oliver: Ah, 在那里你还可以看到很多来自鲜为人知的人类文明创造出来的各种奇特的乐器。

Neil: And you can hear exactly what they sound like and even play some of them. Here's Andrew again: