- Greenwich Prime Meridian （格林尼治本初子午线）
- eastern hemisphere （东半球）
- western hemisphere （西半球）
- Visitors to the Observatory can stand in both the eastern and western hemispheres simultaneously. （游客可以同时站在东半球和西半球）
- curator （馆长，负责人）
- At the moment we are welcoming 850,000 visitors a year. Later on this year we’ll be opening some new facilities: an astronomy centre and a big planetarium, and we expect that our visitor figures will be over one million a year.（目前我们每年的游客数量为85万，今年晚些时候我们会开放一些新设施：一个天文中心和一个大型天文馆，我们预计我们的每年游客数量将超过100万）
------------------------------- Big Ben 大本钟
- If I tell you that I’m standing in front of Big Ben, most of you will know at once that I’m outside the Houses of Parliament in London. Of course there’ll be a handful of listeners who think Big Ben is a wrestler or a grizzly bear, but you’re the ones who don’t get out much. Just about everyone knows that Big Ben is the Houses of Parliament’s clock tower, which means just about everyone is wrong. Because if truth be told, and I do like a bit of truth once in a while, Big Ben is actually the name of the bell, which through the magic of radio and a piece of good timing on my part, should start bonging away shortly!**
- the Houses of Parliament（议会大厦，大本钟在议会大厦附近，英国政府的很多大事都是在这里决策下来的）
- Big Ben is one of the most striking landmarks of London.（大本钟是伦敦最著名的景点之一）
- a wrestler（摔跤选手）
- a grizzly bear（灰熊）
- They don’t get out much.（他们不经常出门，或者可以说他们孤陋寡闻）
- Onomatopoeic, a word that is onomatopoeic is a word that, when spoken, resembles the sound that something makes. （象声词）
- a cliché（陈词滥调）
- gothic and medieval styles（哥特式的中世纪风格）
- What a great sound! It was called big for obvious reasons. The bell weighs in at around 13,700 kilograms, over 13.5 tonnes. Which means that if it landed on you, the phrase “as flat as a pancake”, wouldn’t be a cliché, but an accurate description. It’s called Ben rather than Dave or Nancy because it got its nick name from a chap called Sir Benjamin Hall, who was in charge of maintaining The Houses of Parliament at the time.
- Egyptian mummies（埃及木乃伊）
- ancient Greek statues（古希腊雕像）
- Chinese Buddhist paintings（中国佛教画卷）
- 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.
- Artefacts（艺术品）
- 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 sort of masks from Africa.
- turquoise mosaics from Mexico（绿松石摩赛克双头蛇）
- Terracotta Warriors（兵马俑）
- highlight（精彩的展品）