和大本鍾有關的電影英文簡介

① 英國大本鍾 的英文介紹

大本鍾英文介紹：

Elizabeth Tower, formerly known as Big Ben, is the Bell Tower of Westminster Palace, one of the world's famous Gothic buildings, the landmark building of London. In June 2012, Britain announced the renaming of the Bell Tower of Big Ben, a famous landmark in London, as "Elizabeth Tower".

The tower of Elizabeth is a bell tower on the Thames River in London, England. It is one of the landmarks of London. The bell tower is 95 meters high, 7 meters in diameter and 13.5 tons in weight. Every 15 minutes, the Westminster bell rings. Since the construction of the Jubilee Metro Line, the tower of Elizabeth has been affected. Measurements show that the tower tilts about half a meter northwest.

大本鍾中文介紹：

伊麗莎白塔，舊稱大本鍾，即威斯敏斯特宮鍾塔，世界上著名的哥特式建築之一，倫敦的標志性建築。英國國會會議廳附屬的鍾樓的大報時鍾，2012年6月，英國宣布把倫敦著名地標「大本鍾」的鍾樓改名為「伊麗莎白塔」。

伊麗莎白塔是坐落在英國倫敦泰晤士河畔的一座鍾樓，是倫敦的標志性建築之一。鍾樓高95米，鍾直徑7米，重13.5噸。每15分鍾響一次，敲響威斯敏斯特鍾聲。自從興建地鐵Jubilee線之後，伊麗莎白塔受到影響，測量顯示伊麗莎白塔朝西北方向傾斜約半米。

(1)和大本鍾有關的電影英文簡介擴展閱讀：

大本鍾的設計細節：

伊麗莎白塔是由Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin奧古斯塔斯·普金設計，並由愛德華·登特及他的兒子弗雷德里克建造的。伊麗莎白塔在1859年被安裝在鍾樓上。伊麗莎白塔是世界上第二大的同時朝向四個方向的時鍾。每個鍾面的底座上刻著拉丁文的題詞，「上帝啊，請保佑我們的女王維多利亞一世的安全。」

鍾重13.5噸，鍾盤直徑7米，時針和分針長度分別為2.75米和4.27米，鍾擺重305公斤。伊麗莎白塔是坐落於英國倫敦的國會大廈的北部的一座大鍾其鍾樓。伊麗莎白塔的著名之處在於它的准確和那重達13噸的巨大的用於報時的銅鍾。

參考資料來源：網路—大本鍾

② 英文介紹大笨鍾

Big Ben is the nickname for the great bell of the clock at the north-eastern end of the Palace of Westminster in London.[1] The nickname is often also used to refer to the clock and the clock tower.[2] This is the world's largest four-faced, chiming clock and the third largest free-standing clock tower in the world.[3] It celebrates its 150th birthday in 2009,[4] ring which celebratory events are planned.[5]

The nearest London Underground station is Westminster.

Contents [hide]
1 Tower
2 Clock
2.1 Faces
2.2 Mechanism
2.3 Malfunctions and breakdowns
3 Bells
3.1 Great Bell
3.2 Chimes
4 Nickname
5 Significance in popular culture
6 Awards
7 See also
8 References
9 External links

Tower

The Palace of Westminster, the Clock Tower and Westminster BridgeThe tower was raised as a part of Charles Barry's design for a new palace, after the old Palace of Westminster was destroyed by fire on the night of 22 October 1834.

The new Parliament was built in a Neo-gothic style. Although Barry was the chief architect of the Palace, he turned to Augustus Pugin for the design of the clock tower, which resembles earlier Pugin designs, including one for Scarisbrick Hall. The design for the Clock Tower was Pugin's last design before his final descent into madness and death, and Pugin himself wrote, at the time of Barry's last visit to him to collect the drawings: "I never worked so hard in my life for Mr Barry for tomorrow I render all the designs for finishing his bell tower & it is beautiful."[6] The tower is designed in Pugin's celebrated Gothic Revival style, and is 96.3 metres (315.9 ft) high.

The bottom 61 metres (200 ft) of the Clock Tower's structure consists of brickwork with sand coloured Anston limestone cladding. The remainder of the tower's height is a framed spire of cast iron. The tower is founded on a 15-metre (49 ft) square raft, made of 3-metre (9.8 ft) thick concrete, at a depth of 4 metres (13 ft) below ground level. The four clock faces are 55 metres (180 ft) above ground. The interior volume of the tower is 4,650 cubic metres (164,200 cubic feet).

Because of changes in ground conditions since construction (notably tunnelling for the Jubilee Line extension), the tower leans slightly to the north-west, by roughly 220 millimetres (8.66 in) at the clock face, giving an inclination of approximately 1/250.[7][8] Due to thermal effects it oscillates annually by a few millimetres east and west.

Clock

Faces
The clock faces are large enough to have once allowed the Clock Tower to be the largest four-faced clock in the world, but have since been outdone by the Allen-Bradley Clock Tower in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. However, the builders of the Allen-Bradley Clock Tower did not add chimes to the clock, so the Great Clock of Westminster still holds the title of the "world's largest four-faced chiming clock".

The face of the Great Clock of Westminster. The hour hand is 2.7 metres (9 ft) long and the minute hand is 4.3 metres (14 ft) long.The clock and dials were designed by Augustus Pugin. The clock faces are set in an iron frame 7 metres (23 ft) in diameter, supporting 312 pieces of opal glass, rather like a stained-glass window. Some of the glass pieces may be removed for inspection of the hands. The surround of the dials is gilded. At the base of each clock face in gilt letters is the Latin inscription DOMINE SALVAM FAC REGINAM NOSTRAM VICTORIAM PRIMAM, which means O Lord, keep safe our Queen Victoria the First.

Mechanism

The Clock Tower at sk, with The London Eye in the backgroundThe clock is famous for its reliability. The designers were the lawyer and amateur horologist Edmund Beckett Denison, and George Airy, the Astronomer Royal. Construction was entrusted to clockmaker Edward John Dent, who completed the work in 1854. As the Tower was not complete until 1859, Denison had time to experiment: Instead of using the deadbeat escapement and remontoire as originally designed, Denison invented the double three-legged gravity escapement. This escapement provides the best separation between penlum and clock mechanism. The penlum is installed within an enclosed windproof box sunk beneath the clockroom. It is 3.9m long, weighs 300 kg and beats every 2 seconds. The clockwork mechanism in a room below weighs 5 tons.

The idiom of putting a penny on, with the meaning of slowing down, sprang from the method of fine-tuning the clock's penlum.[9] On top of the penlum is a small stack of old penny coins; these are to adjust the time of the clock. Adding or subtracting coins has the effect of minutely altering the position of the penlum's centre of mass, the effective length of the penlum rod and hence the rate at which the penlum swings. Adding or removing a penny will change the clock's speed by 0.4 second per day.

During The Blitz, the Palace of Westminster was hit by German bombing, on 10 May 1941, a bombing raid damaged two of the clockfaces and sections of the tower's stepped roof and destroyed the House of Commons chamber. Architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott designed a new five-floor block. Two floors are occupied by the current chamber which was used for the first time on 26 October 1950. Despite the heavy bombing the clock ran accurately and chimed throughout the Blitz.

Malfunctions and breakdowns
New Year's Eve 1962: The clock slowed e to heavy snow and ice on the long hands, causing the penlum to detach from the clockwork, as it is designed to do in such circumstances, to avoid serious damage elsewhere in the mechanism—the penlum continuing to swing freely. Thus it chimed in the new year 10 minutes late.[citation needed]
5 August 1976: First and only major breakdown. The speed regulator of the chiming mechanism finally broke after 100+ years of torsional fatigue, then the fully-wound 4 ton weights mped their entire potential energy into the chiming mechanism in one go. It caused a great deal of damage; the Great Clock was shut down for a total of 26 days over nine months - it was reactivated on 9 May 1977; this was its longest break in operation since it was built. During this time BBC Radio 4 had to make do with the pips.[10]
Friday, 27 May 2005: the clock stopped at 10:07 pm local time, possibly e to hot weather (temperatures in London had reached an unseasonal 31.8 °C (90 °F)). It restarted, but stopped again at 10:20 pm local time and remained still for about 90 minutes before restarting.[11]
29 October 2005: the mechanism was stopped for about 33 hours so the clock and its chimes could be worked on. It was the lengthiest maintenance shutdown in 22 years.[12]

The south clock face being cleaned on 11 August 20077:00 am 5 June 2006: The clock tower's "Quarter Bells" were taken out of commission for four weeks [13] as a bearing holding one of the quarter bells was damaged from years of wear and needed to be removed for repairs. During this period, BBC Radio 4 broadcast recordings of British bird song followed by the pips in place of the usual chimes.[14]
11 August 2007: Start of 6-week stoppage for maintenance. Bearings in the clock's drive train and the "great bell" striker were replaced, for the first time since installation.[15] During the maintenance works, the clock was not driven by the original mechanism, but by an electric motor.[16] Once again, BBC Radio 4 had to make do with the pips ring this time.

Bells

Great Bell
The main bell, officially known as the Great Bell, is the largest bell in the tower and part of the Great Clock of Westminster. The bell is better known by the nickname Big Ben.[17]

The original bell was a 16.3-tonne (16 ton) hour bell, cast on 6 August 1856 in Stockton-on-Tees by John Warner & Sons.[1] The bell was never officially named, but the legend on it records that the commissioner of works, Sir Benjamin Hall, was responsible for the order. Another theory for the origin of the name is that the bell may have been named after a contemporary heavyweight boxer Benjamin Caunt. It is thought that the bell was originally to be called Victoria or Royal Victoria in honour of Queen Victoria,[18] but that an MP suggested the nickname ring a Parliamentary debate; the comment is not recorded in Hansard.

Since the tower was not yet finished, the bell was mounted in New Palace Yard. Cast in 1856, the first bell was transported to the tower on a trolley drawn by sixteen horses, with crowds cheering its progress. Unfortunately, it cracked beyond repair while being tested and a replacement had to be made. The bell was recast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry as a 13.76-tonne (13½ ton) bell.[19] This was pulled 200ft up to the Clock Tower』s belfry, a feat that took 18 hours. It is 2.2 metres tall and 2.9 metres wide. This new bell first chimed in July 1859. In September it too cracked under the hammer, a mere two months after it officially went into service. According to the foundry's manager, George Mears, Denison had used a hammer more than twice the maximum weight specified.[1] For three years Big Ben was taken out of commission and the hours were struck on the lowest of the quarter bells until it was reinstalled. To make the repair, a square piece of metal was chipped out from the rim around the crack, and the bell given an eighth of a turn so the new hammer struck in a different place.[1] Big Ben has chimed with an odd twang ever since and is still in use today complete with the crack. At the time of its casting, Big Ben was the largest bell in the British Isles until "Great Paul", a 17 tonne (16¾ ton) bell currently hung in St. Paul's Cathedral, was cast in 1881.[20]

Chimes

Click to hear BBC World Service announce itself, then play Westminster Chimes and the 12 strikes of Big Ben as broadcast at exactly 00:00:00 GMT on 1 January 2009.Along with the Great Bell, the belfry houses four quarter bells which play the Westminster Quarters on the quarter hours. The four quarter bells are G sharp, F sharp, E, and B (see Note). They were cast by John Warner & Sons at their Crescent Foundry in 1857 (G sharp, F sharp and B) and 1858 (E). The Foundry was in Jewin Crescent, in what is now known as The Barbican, in the City of London.

The Quarter Bells play a 20-chime sequence, 1–4 at quarter past, 5–12 at half past, 13–20 and 1–4 at quarter to, and 5–20 on the hour (which sounds 25 seconds before the main bell tolls the hour). Because the low bell (B) is struck twice in quick succession, there is not enough time to pull a hammer back, and it is supplied with two wrench hammers on opposite sides of the bell. The tune is that of the Cambridge Chimes, first used for the chimes of Great St Mary's church, Cambridge, and supposedly a variation, attributed to William Crotch, on a phrase from Handel's Messiah. The notional words of the chime, again derived from Great St Mary's and in turn an allusion to Psalm 37, are: "All through this hour/Lord be my guide/And by Thy power/No foot shall slide". They are written on a plaque on the wall of the clock room.[21][22]

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Nickname
The nickname Big Ben is the subject of some debate. The nickname was applied first to the Great Bell; it may have been named after Sir Benjamin Hall, who oversaw the installation of the Great Bell, or after boxing's English Heavyweight Champion Benjamin Caunt.[1][17][23][24] Now Big Ben is used to refer to the clock, the tower and the bell collectively, although the nickname is not universally accepted as referring to the clock and tower.[2][25][26][27] Some authors of works about the tower, clock and bell sidestep the issue by using the words Big Ben first in the title, then going on to clarify that the subject of the book is the clock and tower as well as the bell.[28][29]

Significance in popular culture
The clock has become a symbol of the United Kingdom and London, particularly in the visual media. When a television or film-maker wishes to quickly convey to a non-UK audience a generic location in Britain, a popular way to do so is to show an image of the Clock Tower, often with a Routemaster bus or Hackney carriage in the foreground.[30] This gambit is less often used in the United Kingdom, as it would suggest to most British people a specific location in London, which may not be the intention. The Clock Tower is often polled as the Most Iconic London Film Location.[31]

The sound of the clock chiming has also been used this way in audio media, but as the Westminster Quarters are heard from other clocks and other devices, the unique nature of this sound has been considerably diluted.

The Clock Tower ring the 2008/2009 New Years Eve Celebrations.The Clock Tower is a focus of New Year celebrations in the United Kingdom, with radio and TV stations tuning to its chimes to welcome the start of the year. Similarly, on Remembrance Day, the chimes of Big Ben are broadcast to mark the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month and the start of two minutes' silence.

ITN's News at Ten opening sequence features an image of the Clock Tower with the sound of Big Ben's chimes punctuating the announcement of the news headlines, and has done so on and off for the last 41 years. The Big Ben chimes continue to be used ring the headlines and all ITV News bulletins use a graphic based on the Westminster clock face. Big Ben can also be heard striking the hour before some news bulletins on BBC Radio 4 (6 pm and midnight, plus 10 pm on Sundays) and the BBC World Service, a practice that began on 31 December 1923. The sound of the chimes are sent in real time from a microphone permanently installed in the tower and connected by line to Broadcasting House.

Londoners who live an appropriate distance from the Clock Tower and Big Ben can, by means of listening to the chimes both live and on the radio or television, hear the bell strike thirteen times on New Year's Eve. This is possible e to what amounts to a offset between live and electronically transmitted chimes since the speed of sound is a lot slower than the speed of radio waves. Guests are invited to count the chimes aloud as the radio is graally turned down.

The Clock Tower has appeared in many films, most notably in the 1978 version of The Thirty-Nine Steps, in which the hero Richard Hannay attempted to halt the clock's progress (to prevent a linked bomb detonating) by hanging from the minute hand of its western face. It was also used in the filming of Shanghai Knights starring Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson, and was depicted as being partially destroyed in the Doctor Who episode "Aliens of London". An animated version of the clock and its inner workings were also used as the setting for the climactic final battle between Basil of Baker Street and his nemesis Ratigan in the Walt Disney animated film The Great Mouse Detective, and is shown being destroyed by a UFO in the film Mars Attacks!.

Awards
It was announced on 9 April 2008 that a survey of 2,000 people found that the tower was the most popular landmark in the United Kingdom.[32]

③ 大本鍾的英文簡介

The
name
Big
Ben
was
first
given
to
a
14.5
tonne
(16
ton)
hour
bell,
cast
on
10
April
1856
in
Stockton-on-Tees
by
Warner's
of
Cripplegate.
The
bell
was
never
officially
named,
but
the
legend
on
it
records
that
the
commissioner
of
works,
Sir
Benjamin
Hall,
was
responsible
for
the
order;
another
theory
is
that
the
bell
may
have
been
named
after
heavyweight
boxer
Benjamin
Caunt
who
was
popular
at
the
time.
There's
also
a
story
that
the
bell
was
to
be
called
"Victoria"
in
honour
of
Queen
Victoria,
but
the
ceremonial
speeches
went
on
so
long
that
some
joker
shouted
out
"Oh
just
call
it
Big
Ben
and
have
done
with
it!"
and
the
name
stuck.
Since
the
tower
was
not
yet
finished,
the
bell
was
mounted
in
New
Palace
Yard
but
the
bell
cracked
under
the
striking
hammer,
and
its
metal
was
recast
at
the
Whitechapel
Bell
Foundry
as
the
13.76
tonne
(13.54
ton
(long),
15.17
ton
(short)
bell
and
standing
at
(2.2
metres
high
with
a
diameter
of
2.9
metres)
which
is
in
use
today.
The
new
bell,
which
chimes
on
E,
was
mounted
in
the
tower
in
1859
alongside
four
quarter-hour
bells,
the
ring
of
bells
that
ring
the
familiar
changes.

④ 大本鍾的英文資料（要帶翻譯的！！！！！！）

Big Ben is the nickname for the great bell of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London,[1] and often extended to refer to the clock and the clock tower.[2] The tower is now officially called the Elizabeth Tower, after being renamed to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. The Elizabeth Tower holds the largest four-facedchiming clock in the world and is the third-tallest free-standing clock tower.[3] The tower was completed in 1858 and had its 150th anniversary on 31 May 2009,[4] ring which celebratory events took place.[5][6] The Elizabeth Tower has become one of the most prominent symbols of both London and England and is often in the establishing shot of films set in the city.

大本鍾（英語：Big Ben，或翻譯成大笨鍾、大鵬鍾）是英國國會會議廳附屬鍾樓的大報時鍾的昵稱，也常代指該鍾所在的鍾樓 。[1]
大本鍾坐落在英國倫敦泰晤士河畔的威斯敏斯特宮鍾塔上，是倫敦的標志之一。鍾樓高95米，鍾直徑9英尺，重13.5噸。每15分鍾響一次，敲響威斯敏斯特鍾聲。自從興建地鐵朱比利線之後，大本鍾受到影響，最近測量顯示大本鍾朝西北方向傾斜約半米[2]。
大本鍾的命名來源眾說紛紜，有一種說法稱大本鍾的名字來自於本傑明·豪爾爵士。
大鍾於1858年4月10日建成，是英國最大的鍾。塔起碼有320英尺高（約合97.5米），分針有14英尺長（約合4.27米），大本鍾用人工發條，國會開會期間，鍾面會發出光芒，每隔一小時報時一次。每年的夏季與冬天時間轉換時會把鍾停止，進行零件的修補、交換，鍾的調音等。
大本鍾的可靠性毋庸置疑，自從建成，倫敦格林威治天文台的官員每天兩次派人校對此鍾。不過有一次它把時間報錯了，因為一名在大本鍾上作業的油漆粉刷工在鍾面上掛了一個油漆桶，把鍾弄慢了。[來源請求]
2009年6月1日，歡慶啟用150周年。2012年6月26日，英國政府宣布為慶祝伊麗莎白二世登基60周年，將大本鍾所在的鍾樓正式改名為伊麗莎白塔。[3]。

非原創，均貼自WIKIPIDEA

⑤ 關於英國大本鍾的英文介紹！

大本鍾(Big Ben)
Big Ben is one of London's best-known landmarks, and looks most spectacular at night when the clock faces are illuminated. You even know when parliament is in session, because a light shines above the clock face.

The four dials of the clock are 23 feet square, the minute hand is 14 feet long and the figures are 2 feet high. Minutely regulated with a stack of coins placed on the huge penlum, Big Ben is an excellent timekeeper, which has rarely stopped.

The name Big Ben actually refers not to the clock-tower itself, but to the thirteen ton bell hung within. The bell was named after the first commissioner of works, Sir Benjamin Hall.

This bell came originally from the old Palace of Westminster, it was given to the Dean of St. Paul's by William III. Before returning to Westminster to hang in its present home, it was refashioned in Whitechapel in 1858. The BBC first broadcast the chimes on the 31st December 1923 - there is a microphone in the turret connected to Broadcasting House.

During the second world war in 1941, an incendiary bomb destroyed the Commons chamber of the Houses of Parliament, but the clock tower remained intact and Big Ben continued to keep time and strike away the hours, its unique sound was broadcast to the nation and around the world, a welcome reassurance of hope to all who heard it.

There are even cells within the clock tower where Members of Parliament can be imprisoned for a breach of parliamentary privilege, though this is rare; the last recorded case was in 1880.

The tower is not open to the general public, but those with a "special interest" may arrange a visit to the top of the Clock Tower through their local (UK) MP.
大本鍾(Big Ben)是英國最著名的地標, 與英國國會大廈相連. 大本鍾因其走時准確而名揚四海。每隔一小時，大鍾根據格林威治時間發出沉重而鏗鏘的響聲, 在數英里之外也能聽到鍾聲的回盪.
Great bell (Big Ben) is the United Kingdom's most famous landmark, linked with the British parliament building. Great bell because, she was walking and accurate. Every Clock, bell Jiatelinwei Time issued under heavy sonorous sounds, a few miles away can hear the bell reverberate.

⑥ 大本鍾,威尼斯,悉尼歌劇院和金門大橋的英文資料

The Big Ben Clock(大本鍾）
The Big Ben is located in the tower at the eastern end of the Houses of Parliament, Westminster, Greater London. It was designed by Edmund Beckett and Baron Grimthorpe.

The Big Ben is very famous throughout the world, but nobody really knows why it is called Big Ben. There are two hearsays about this. Some people say that it was named after Benjamin Caunt, a boxer, who was called Big Ben. More people believe it was called after Welshman, Sir Benjamin Hall. He was the commissioner of the work at the time of its installation in 1859. A story was told that ring a debate in the Commons on what to call the bell, Sir Benjamin was about to give his ideas when a MP who sat behind the front bench shouted, "Let's call it Big Ben!" Then this name came into being.

The bell hasn't gone through a smooth road since the beginning of its design. Because there was great disagreement about the design of the clock, it took fifteen years to build. In 1857, the bell was completed and tested on the ground, but a four-foot crack appeared and the bell had to be cast again. Finally, the clock started ticking on 31 May, 1859, and struck its first chime on 11, July. Then in September, the bell cracked again. It was silent for four years but was eventually turned a quarter of a revolution. In this way, the crack was not under the striking hammer. Craftsmen made a square above the crack to stop it graving longer and it can still be seen today.

The Big Ben is famous not only for its 13-ton weight, but also for its accuracy which is a result of its precise mechanism. Even one extra penny's weight on the balance will cause a gain of two fifths of a second in twenty four hours. Although there have been several problem, the bell is still striking today. Its chimes can be heard all over the world on the B.B.C.
大本鍾在倫敦威斯敏斯特英自治領會議院東邊的盡頭。它的設計者是Edmund Beckett和Baron Grimthorpe。
大本鍾在世界上家喻戶曉，但沒有多少人實際上知道為何它叫大本鍾。關於這個問題有兩個傳言：有人認為它是從一個叫做Benjamin Caunt 的拳擊家而來。更多人認為它以一個威爾士人——Benjamin Hall先生而命名的。他是安裝工程的監督者。在經過在下議院討論中應該叫什麼名字後，Benjamin先生准備給出結果時，一位在前凳後的MP（我也不知道是什麼東東）喊道：「我們叫它『大本』吧！」於是這個名字就一直流傳到現在。
從大本鍾的設計到建造結束，這個鍾誕生的道路就荊棘滿途。因為當時關於這個鍾的設計大家有著很大的分歧。建造它就用了15年。1857年，大本鍾完工，並在地上作了測試。但是當鍾要掛上去時，4尺長的裂縫就出現了。1859年5月31日，大鍾的指針終於開始移動並在7月11日進行了它的第一次報時。然而在九月份的時候，鍾又裂開了。它沉靜了四年，直到在革命後裂縫終於被轉了一個角。這樣，裂縫就不在敲鍾錘的下面。工匠在裂縫上做了一個方框，以此來停住裂縫的延長，所以現在我們還能看到它。
大本鍾聞名全球不僅僅因為他的13噸重量，還因為它的精準——那是因為它嚴謹的機械結構。在平衡上增添額外的一便士重量都會造成每24小時多五分之二秒的後果。盡管有過幾次故障，直到今天大鍾仍然在報時。它的鍾鳴會通過B.B.C.廣播電台傳遍全球。
Venice（威尼斯）
What images come to mind when you think of a trip to Venice? No doubt you imagine yourself taking a romantic gondola ride along narrow canals and under delicate bridges. Perhaps you picture the beautiful old buildings and famous works of art that have made the city one of Europe's leading tourist spots.
Venice was built on more than 100 islands and has about 150 canals. The best-known of these, the Grand Canal, functions as the"main street"in the part of the city most popular with visitors. The canal winds through each of the six districts that comprise this historic city center before reaching Venice Lagoon.
One of these districts, San Marco, is home to many of Venice's main attractions, including St. Mark's Basilica. This spectacular church has five main arches and some extraordinary onion-shaped domes. It is decorated with priceless treasures, many of which were stolen from other countries when medieval Venice was a leading sea power.
想到威尼斯一游，你的腦海中會浮現出什麼畫面？毫無疑問你一定會想像自己乘坐浪漫的平底船，沿著窄窄的運河航行，從一座座別致的橋下穿梭而過。也許你還會在腦海中勾勒出那些讓威尼斯成為歐洲一流旅遊勝地的美麗古老建築和藝術名作。
威尼斯建在100多個小島上，擁有大約150條運河。最有名的運河就是"大運河"，它位於市區遊客最多的地方，並發揮"大街"的功能。這條運河在構成這個歷史上的市中心的六個行政區間蜿蜒穿流，最後流入威尼斯湖。
行政區之一的聖馬可是許多威尼斯主要旅遊景的中心，包括聖馬可大教堂。這座雄偉的大教堂有五道大拱門和數座壯觀的洋蔥形圓頂。教堂用很貴重的珠寶裝飾，其中許多是在中世紀威尼斯稱霸海權時從其它國家掠奪來的。
Sydney Opera House(悉尼歌劇院）
The Sydney Opera House is one of the most famous buildings in the world.It is considered to be one of the most recognizable images of the modern world although the building has been open for only about 30 years.The Sydney Opera House is as representative of Australia as the pyramids are of Egypt.
6 225 square meters of glass and 645 kilometers of electric cable were used to build the Opera House.It includes 1 000 rooms.It is 185 meters long and 120 meters wide.The building』s roof sections weight about 15 tons.There are 1 million tiles on the roof.It provides guided tours to 200 000 people each year.
But do you know the Opera House with a roof was designed by a famous Danish architect，John Utzon？In the late 1950s the Australian Government established an appeal fund to finance for the construction of the Sydney Opera House，and concted a competition for its design was chosen. Utzon spent a few years reworking the design and it was 1961 before he had solved the problem of how to build the distinguishing feature—the sails of the roof.The venture experienced cost blowouts. In 1966 the situation reached crisis point and Utzon resigned from the project.The building was finally competed by others in 1973.Sydney Opera House was opened by Queen Elizabeth on 20th October 1973.
The Opera House reaches out into the harbour.Seen from the air or a ferry，the skyline of the Sydney Opera Hose，the blue water of the harbour and the Sydney Harbour Bridge，so beautiful.
悉尼歌劇院是世上最著名的建築之一。雖然這項建築之開放了三十年，但是它是被公認的世上最與眾不同的現代建築。悉尼歌劇院是澳大利亞的象徵，就像金字塔是埃及的象徵一樣。
建造歌劇院用了6 625平方米的玻璃和645千米的電纜線。它有1 000間房間。它長185米，寬20米。歌劇院樓頂的部分大約重15噸。在樓頂上，有1百萬塊磚。每年它能接待旅遊團20萬人。
但你知道歌劇院的設計者是丹麥著名的建築師——約翰•伍松嗎？在50年代，澳大利亞政府申請並建立了悉尼歌劇院工程基金，並舉行了一個歌劇院設計比賽。伍松用了數年時間反復修改設計圖紙並在1961年解決了如何搭建出特色來——帆狀屋頂。這個別樹一幟的屋頂造成了轟動。1966年情況變得危急，伍松辭去了任務。但是在1973年，這項建築還是被其它建築師所完工。1973年10月20日，歌劇院由伊麗莎白女王宣布對外開放。
歌劇院延伸到海港中央。從一艘渡輪或一架飛機上看，歌劇院雄偉的空中輪廓線，碧藍碧藍的水和悉尼的海港大橋，是那麼漂亮。
The orange towers of the Golden Gate Bridge-probably the most beautiful, certainly the most photographed bridge in the world-are visible from almost every point of elevation in San Francisco. The only cleft in Northern California's 600-mile continental wall, for years this mile-wide strait was considered unbridgeable. As much an architectural as an engineering feat, the Golden Gate took only 52 months to design and build, and was opened in 1937. Designed by Joseph Strauss, it was the first really massive suspension bridge, with a span of 4200ft, and until 1959 ranked as the world's longest. It connects the city at its northwesterly point on the peninsula to Marin County and Northern California, rendering the hitherto essential ferry crossing rendant, and was designed to withstand winds of up to a hundred miles an hour and to swing as much as 27ft. Handsome on a clear day, the bridge takes on an eerie quality when the thick white fogs pour in and hide it almost completely.
You can either drive or walk across. The drive is the more thrilling of the two options as you race under the bridge's towers, but the half-hour walk across it really gives you time to take in its enormous size and absorb the views of the city behind you and the headlands of Northern California straight ahead. Pause at the midway point and consider the seven or so suicides a month who choose this spot, 260ft up, as their jumping-off spot. Monitors of such events speculate that victims always face the city before they leap. In 1995, when the suicide toll from the bridge had reached almost 1000, police kept the figures quiet to avoid a rush of would-be suicides going for the bious distinction of being the thousandth person to leap.
Perhaps the best-loved symbol of San Francisco, in 1987 the Golden Gate proved an auspicious place for a sunrise party when crowds gathered to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. Some quarter of a million people turned up (a third of the city's entire population); the winds were strong and the huge numbers caused the bridge to buckle, but fortunately not to break.

最後一篇沒有翻譯，還有不夠簡明，不好意思咯，以後有英語問題，找我吧！！^-^

⑦ 關於大本鍾的簡介，要英語的，簡單一點

The Big Ben is located in the tower at the eastern end of the Houses of Parliament, Westminster, Greater London. It was designed by Edmund Beckett and Baron Grimthorpe.

The Big Ben is very famous throughout the world, but nobody really knows why it is called Big Ben. There are two hearsays about this. Some people say that it was named after Benjamin Caunt, a boxer, who was called Big Ben. More people believe it was called after Welshman, Sir Benjamin Hall. He was the commissioner of the work at the time of its installation in 1859. A story was told that ring a debate in the Commons on what to call the bell, Sir Benjamin was about to give his ideas when a MP who sat behind the front bench shouted, "Let's call it Big Ben!" Then this name came into being.

The bell hasn't gone through a smooth road since the beginning of its design. Because there was great disagreement about the design of the clock, it took fifteen years to build. In 1857, the bell was completed and tested on the ground, but a four-foot crack appeared and the bell had to be cast again. Finally, the clock started ticking on 31 May, 1859, and struck its first chime on 11, July. Then in September, the bell cracked again. It was silent for four years but was eventually turned a quarter of a revolution. In this way, the crack was not under the striking hammer. Craftsmen made a square above the crack to stop it graving longer and it can still be seen today.

The Big Ben is famous not only for its 13-ton weight, but also for its accuracy which is a result of its precise mechanism. Even one extra penny's weight on the balance will cause a gain of two fifths of a second in twenty four hours. Although there have been several problem, the bell is still striking today. Its chimes can be heard all over the world on the B.B.C.

⑧ 關於大本鍾的簡介要英語的帶翻譯10個詞左右

London's famous ancient bell or Big Ben (Big Ben), the palace of Westminster Chimes (coordinates: 51 degrees 30 '2.2 n ". 07 00 degrees' 28.6" W) British Chamber of Congress; the clock tower, built in 1859. Installed on the east side of Westminster Bridge North Capitol high 95 meters tower, bell tower surrounded by a round the clock disc diameter 6.7 meters, is a traditional London landmarks.

英國倫敦著名古鍾或稱大本鍾(Big Ben)，即威斯敏斯特宮報時鍾（坐標：51°30′02.2″N, 00°07′28.6″W）英國國會會議廳附屬的鍾樓，建於1859年。安裝在西敏寺橋北議會大廈東側高95米的鍾樓上，鍾樓四面的圓形鍾盤，直徑為6.7米，是倫敦的傳統地標。

⑨ 大本鍾英文介紹

Big Ben is the nickname for the great bell of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London,and is generally extended to refer to the clock or the clock tower as well.Some believe this extension to be incorrect,but its usage is now entirely commonplace.It is the largest four-faced chiming clock and the third-tallest free-standing clock tower in the world.It celebrated its 150th anniversary in May 2009,ring which celebratory events took place.The clock was finished being built on April 10,1858.