BBC都市掠影:Crystal Palace 水晶宫

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John: Hi there! Welcome to On The Town from a very interesting part of south London. I'm John, with me Oliver. We're at Crystal Palace.
Oliver: 哦，水晶宫。

John: At Crystal Palace one of Britain's best loved football clubs used to play. It's home to major athletics events, and there used to be an amazing palace!

Oliver: 不过，在我们开始今天节目之前要先澄清一件事，那就是现在的水晶宫根本就不是一座宫殿。 It isn't a palace at all.

John: But there used to be a palace here in south London.

Oliver: What did it look like John?

John: Well The Crystal Palace got its name because it was a building made almost entirely of glass.

Oliver: 一座玻璃造的建筑，真是太让人吃惊了。Tell us something about its history John。它是什么时候建造的，在这里又发生过什么事情呢？

John: Well, it was built for a very specific purpose. A great exhibition, in fact The Great Exhibition of 1851.

Oliver: It must have been quite a spectacle. 在玻璃和钢铁造就的宫殿里展出着最新的艺术作品和现代设计。那会是一个多么辉煌的景象啊！A glass and iron palace.

John: Well, we've been doing some research, and we've found an account written by a young woman who visited the Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace in 1851. She was impressed too, and her name is Eloise.

Oliver: Eloise 是当时一个前去看展览的小姐，她震惊于水晶宫的壮丽。下面是她在1851年的描述。