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梦依帆的家:聚焦英美文化,放眼世界百科 Culture & Encyc享受生命,享受生活！To live, to enjoy. 6월 6일 美国驻华大使致辞MESSAGE FROM AMBASSADOR JOSEPH W. PRUEHER
Welcome to the homepage of the U.S. Mission to the People's Republic of China. Our aim is to provide information to both Americans and Chinese about our programs and services at the Embassy in Beijing and the consular districts of Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenyang. The relationship between the U.S. and China is vital to both countries, to the Asia-Pacific region, and to our world as we enter a new century and a new millennium. Our common interests transcend the issues that keep us apart. China is currently undergoing the most immense changes in its long history. A modern, prosperous, stable China is in the interest of the United States, as is China's participation in the World Trade Organization, international human rights covenants, non-proliferation agreements, and fora for the peaceful resolution of security issues in the Asia-Pacific region. With different histories, priorities, and cultures, there will inevitably be differences between us, but I am confident the U.S. and China can advance our relations in an atmosphere of mutual respect and understanding. The U.S. Mission in China plays a vital role in this effort and looks forward to working with our many friends in both the U.S. and China to advance relations in a constructive manner. 美国驻华大使普理赫先生致辞 欢迎访问美国驻中华人民共和国使团网页。我们的宗旨是向美国和中国人民提供信息，介绍我们在北京的大使馆及在成都、广州、上海和沈阳的领区开展的活动和提供的服务。 当我们跨入新世纪和新千年之际，美中关系对我们两国、对亚太地区、对我们的世界都是至关重要的。我们的共同利益超越了我们的分歧。中国正经历着其悠久历史中最重大的变革，一个繁荣、稳定的现代中国符合美国的利益，中国加入世界贸易组织、国际人权公约、不扩散条约以及和平解决亚太地区安全问题论坛都符合美国利益。由于不同的历史、价值观和文化，我们之间不可避免地会存在分歧，但我相信美国和中国能够在相互尊重和相互理解的氛围里推进我们的两国关系。 美国驻中国使团在这个任务中起着重要作用，我们期待着与众多美、中朋友共同努力，建设性地推进两国关系。 北京申奥杨澜英语陈述全文Yang Lan: Before I introduce our cultural programs, I want to tell you one thing first about 2008. You're going to have a great time in Beijing. China has its own sport legends. Back to Song Dynasty, about the 11th century, people started to play a game called Cuju, which is regarded as the origin of ancient football. The game was very popular and women were also participating. Now, you will understand why our women football team is so good today. There are a lot more wonderful and exciting things waiting for you in New Beijing, a dynamic modern metropolis with 3,000 years of cultural treasures woven into the urban tapestry. Along with the iconic imagery of the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven and the Great Wall, the city offers an endless mixture of theatres, museums, discos, all kinds of restaurants and shopping malls that will amaze and delight you. But beyond that, it is a place of millions of friendly people who love to meet people from around the world. People of Beijing believe that the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing will help to enhance the harmony between our culture and the diverse cultures of the world. Their gratitude will pour out in open expressions of affection for you and the great Movement that you guide. Within our cultural programs, education and communication will receive the highest priority. We seek to create an intellectual and sporting legacy by broadening the understanding of the Olympic Ideals throughout the country. Cultural events will unfold each year, from 2005 to 2008. We will stage multi-disciplined cultural programs, such as concerts, exhibitions, art competitions and camps which will involve young people from around the world. During the Olympics, they will be staged in the Olympic Village and the city for the benefit of the athletes.
Our Ceremonies will give China's greatest-and the world's greatest artists a stage for celebrating the common aspirations of humanity and the unique heritage of our culture and the Olympic Movement. With a concept inspired by the famed Silk Road, our Torch Relay will break new ground, traveling from Olympia through some of the oldest civilizations known to man-Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Byzantine, Mesopotamian, Persian, Arabian, Indian and Chinese. Carrying the message "Share the Peace, Share the Olympics," the eternal flame will reach new heights as it crosses the Himalayas over the world's highest summit - Mount Qomolangma, which is known to many of you as Mt. Everest. In China, the flame will pass through Tibet, cross the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, travel the Great Wall and visit Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and the 56 ethnic communities who make up our society. On its journey, the flame will be seen by and inspire more human beings than any previous relay. I am afraid I can not present the whole picture of our cultural programs within such a short period of time. Before I end, let me share with you one story. Seven hundred years ago, amazed by his incredible descriptions of a far away land of great beauty, people asked Marco Polo whether his stories about China were true.He answered: What I have told you was not even half of what I saw. Actually, what we have shown you here today is only a fraction of Beijing that awaits you. 新书发布：物理学的故事：伽利略的钟摆My dearest friends, distinguished bloggers, ladies and gentlemen,
It's my great honor here today to recommand a great book to you.
Galileo, Newton, Einstein, you must have heard of these names many times, of course, your physics teacher or tutor must have mentioned these giants time and again. You know they were big potatoes making milestones in the development of physics as well as in the evolution of us, human beings. With them and other figures, we are lucky enough to have pendulums, watches and telescopes, and with them, we are lucky enough to have some understanding about the science of mechanics, optics, electrics and magnetics, and with them, we are lucky enough to have this amazing theory of relativity. But these are not all their contributions to us. They also helped us, are helping us, and will still help us to be better awared of ourselves and the world around us.
Now, I have several questions for you.
Do you know what inspired Galileo to study pendulums? No? Ok, it's the chandelier at the cathedral in Pisa when he was 17.
Do you know which is harder to measure while locating a specific position in the sea, the longitude or the latitude? Maybe no again. Ok, it's the longitude. The British parliament passed the Longitude Act in 1714 and promised a reward of £20,000 to anyone who could devise a method for determining longitude to within half a degree. And the Prize was eventually won by John Harrison, son of a carpenter. His watch, H-4 is still on show to publich in a museum.
Do you know that Newton, the founder of the Modern Science Revolution, was a lonely man of unpleasant disposition. He quarreled almost constantly with other prominent scientists of his days. When he died in 1727, he was given a state funeral and buried in Westminster, like a king.
No doubt, I got these answers all from a book titled Galileo's Pendulum-From the Rhythm of Time to the Making of Things (《伽利略的钟摆——从时间的节律到物质的制造》). It was published by Harvard University Press in 2004 and then translated to Chinese and published in China by FLTRP (外语教学与研究出版社).
Moreover, you will learn how plants and animals behave to the rhythm of time, what methods did we human beings use to make a track of time with calendars, and how the GPS devices locate an exact place in the world.
It's a very interesting book, with dozens of stories you may never read anywhere else about physics.
It's a very inspiring book, with short biographies of sooooooo many scientists.
It's a very philosophical book, with the author Roger G. Newton's unique thinking about the rhythm of time and the human life.
Here are some of the comments to this short and readable book, with Chinese translations.
The range of things that measure time, from living creatures to atomic clocks, brackets Newton's intriguing narrative of time's connections, in the middle of which stands Galileo's famous discovery about pendulums...Science buffs will delight in the links Newton makes in this readable tour of how humanity marks time.
从生物体到原子钟，一系列测量时间的载体构成了牛顿关于时间联系的动人描述，而居于核心的是伽利略关于钟摆的伟大发现……科学迷们肯定会乐意随牛顿踏上一次轻松的时间之旅，去探寻人类记载时间的历史。 ——吉尔伯特·泰勒 《书单》杂志
[A] short, clear and fascinating book about time, our relationship to it and our growing ability to measure it...It takes in along the way Newton, Faraday, Einstein, the one-handed clock of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence and John Harrison's entry for the Longitude Prize.
这是一本关于时间的书，行文简单明了又不乏令人兴趣盎然的描述；从牛顿、法拉第、爱因斯坦等科学巨匠的故事，到佛罗伦萨韦奇奥宫的单指针大钟，再到约翰·哈里逊角逐英国经度奖的曲折经历，无疑都会帮你解开人类与时间之间那千丝万缕的情结，再现人类精确测量时间的漫漫征途。 ——《金融时报》
This delightful short book addresses the problem of time measurement, viewed in its different aspects through history. It is centered on the keen observation made anecdotally in the cathedral of Pisa by Galileo Galilei, when he was only 17, that the time it took the hanging chandelier to complete one oscillation was independent of how far it was swinging...The far-reaching and pervading properties of the harmonic oscillator are presented clearly and concisely as a crucial building block for our understanding of nature in this very interesting and engaging book.
你会发现这是一本自己喜欢的读物，书中随处可见趣味横生的动人描述。作者从独特的历史视角诠释了时间测量的问题，贯穿全书的是一个充满传奇色彩的偶然发现：17岁的伽利略注视着比萨大教堂天花板下高悬的树枝形吊灯，他惊奇地发现吊灯完成一次来回摆动所需的时间竟然与其摆动的幅度大小无关……作者以简洁、洗炼的笔触向我们呈现了“谐振器” 无所不在的等时性，并将其视为我们解密大自然的征途中不可或缺的基本素材。 ——杰曼·科尼尔森 《核心记者》
Believe me, it's great book. Won't waste your time. Enjoy.
Thank all. Thank you very much. 英国年轻人最常用的新词Adultescent中青年 – 仍然积极热衷于青年文化的成年人
Band-aid baby 邦迪婴儿 – 为维持风雨飘摇的关系而怀上的孩子 Bouncebackability卷土重来力 – 受到挫折后的恢复能力，尤其用于体育运动方面 Brand Nazi品牌纳粹 – 执著地购买同一品牌的服装或其他商品的人 Chav 碴夫 – 出身工人阶级、身穿休闲运动装的年轻人 Drink dialling 醉拨 – 借着醉酒给别人——尤其是对对方有浪漫幻象的人打电话的不明智举动 Homeshoring家包 – 允许员工在家办公从而节省办公室日常开支的做法 Kaylied – 醉酒的，喝醉的 Langer 浪儿 – 傻瓜，白痴 Liverpolitan 利物浦人 – 源自利物浦，意思等同于"Liverpudlian"，暗含更多的时髦和高档意味 Ned 涅得 – 没受过教育的小阿飞 Ossified 骨化的 – 醉得一塌糊涂 Squeaky-bum time 磨屁股时间 – 联赛决赛的紧张阶段，尤其是在领导者看来 Tapping up – 试图拉拢仍然与另一支球队签约的球员的非法行为 蓝色的是本人比较喜欢的，尤其是那个drink dialling，估计不少人都有这样的经历吧。赫赫
来源于：英国驻华大使馆文化教育处网站 6월 26일 The Queen: 80 facts1. Queen Elizabeth II is the 40th monarch since William the Conqueror.
2. At 76 years old in 2002, the Queen was the oldest monarch to celebrate a Golden Jubilee. James I was the youngest at 51 years old. 3. Her majesty has handed out 387,700 awards and honours in her reign.
4. The Queen has held 540 investitures.
5. The monarch can speak fluent French.
6. She has received 3million items of correspondance since the beginning of her reign.
7. Around 1.1million people have attended garden parties at the Queen's homes.
8. The Queen has held Tuesday evening audiences with 10 British Prime Ministers.
9. Tony Blair is the first British Prime Minister to be born during the Queen's reign.
10. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh hold small lunch parties to meet distinguished people from all professions, trades and vocations.
11. She is patron to 620 charities and organisations.
12. During her reign, the Queen has undertaken 256 official overseas visits to 129 different countries.
13. The royal yacht Britannia, launched by the Queen in 1953, travelled more than a million miles on royal and official duties until it was decommissioned in 1997.
14. The Queen first used Britainnia to go on a tour of the Commonwealth with the Duke of Edinburgh in May 1954. She last used it to travel to Arran in August 1997.
15. She has visited Australia 15 times, Canada 23 times, Jamaica six times and New Zealand 10 times.
16. The Queen has visited Edinburgh nearly every year since 1952.
17. The most unusual gifts she has received are a live jaguar and some sloths. She has also been given beavers and 7kg of prawns.
18. Her majesty has sent around 100,000 telegrams to people in the UK and the Commonwealth on their 100th birthdays.
19. She has sent more than 280,000 telegrams to couples in the UK and Commonwealth celebrating their 60th wedding anniversaries.
20. The Queen's real birthday is on April 21, but it is celebrated in June.
21. She has attended 34 Royal Variety performances.
22. The monarch has opened 15 bridges in the UK during her reign.
23. The Queen has given more than 91 state banquets during her reign.
24. Since 1952, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have undertaken 78 state visits.
25. The monarch has launched 23 ships in her lifetime.
26. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have sent 37,500 Christmas cards.
27. The Queen has given out about 78,000 Christmas puddings to staff.
28. Every year, the Queen sends Christmas trees to Westminster Abbey, Wellington Barracks, St Paul's Cathedral, St Giles, Edinburgh, The Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh, Crathie Church and local schools and churches in the Sandringham area.
29. She learnt to drive in 1945 when she joined the Army.
30. The Queen was a Girl Guide and Sea Ranger.
31. She travelled on the London Underground for the first time in May 1939.
32. The Queen is a keen photographer and enjoys taking pictures of her family.
33. Queen Elizabeth was born at 17 Bruton St, London W1 on 21 April 1926.
34. She became the first reigning sovereign to have a child since Queen Victoria with the birth of Prince Andrew in 1960.
35. The Queen has 30 godchildren.
36. The first football match she attended was the 1953 FA Cup Final.
37. She has only ever missed on Trooping the Colour ceremony since the start of her reign, in 1955, when it was cancelled due to a national rail strike.
38. The Queen has sat for 139 official portraits during her lifetime, including one for Rolf Harris.
39. The Queen sat for the first and only hologram portrait in 2003.
40. There have been 11 sculptures of the Queen.
41. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh did their first royal 'walkabout ' on a tour to Australia and New Zealand in 1970.
42. The first TV film about the family life of the Royal Family was made in 1969.
43. The first time Buckingham Palace was opened to the public was in 1962 when a gallery was opened in the private chapel.
44.The Queen opened the first "children's trail" in the Buckingham Palace garden in the Summer of 2005.
45. The only time the Queen has had to interrupt an overseas tour was in 1974 when she had to rush back to Britain from Australia and Indonesia when a general election was suddenly called.
46. The Queen has opened Parliament every year except 1959 and 1963, when she was pregnant.
47. The Queen went on her first state visit as Princess Elizabeth to South Africa in February 1947. Her Majesty's first state visit as Queen was technically to Kenya, when King George VI died and the Queen acceded the throne during the tour.
48. The Queen's covered 43,618 miles on on her first Commonwealth tour in 1953. She visited Bermuda, Jamaica, Panama, Fiji, Tonga, New Zealand, Australia, the Cocos Islands, Ceylon, Aden, Uganda, Libya, Malta and Gibraltar.
49. In 1986, the Queen was the first British Monarch to visit China.
50. The Queen has made a Christmas broadcast to the Commonwealth every year of her reign except 1969, when a repeat of the film 'Royal Family' was shown and a written message from The Queen issued.
51. In 1953, the Queen made her first Christmas broadcast from overseas, live from New Zealand.
52. The Queen sent a message of congratulations to Apollo 11 astronauts for the first moon landing on the 21st July,1969. The message was micro-filmed and deposited on the moon in a metal container.
53. The Queen has met the first astronauts to go into space, the first woman in space and the first man on the moon at Buckingham Palace.
54. The Queen sent her first email in 1976 from an Army base.
55. There have been six Archbishops of Canterbury during The Queen's reign.
56. The Queen played host to Pope John Paul II at Buckingham Palace in 1982 when he became the first pontiff to visit Britain in 450 years.
57. The Queen first visited a UK mosque in July 2002.
58. The Queen has attended 50 Royal Maundy services during her reign at more than 39 different cathedrals.
59. The Queen has owned more than 30 corgis during her reign.
60. The Queen also introduced a new breed of dog known as the "dorgi" when one of Her Majesty's corgis was mated with a dachshund.
61. The Queen also breeds and trains Labradors and Cocker Spaniels at Sandringham.
62. The Queen's first pony was a Shetland pony called Peggy which was given to her by her grandfather, King George V.
63. The Queen also takes a keen interest in horse breeding. She has about 25 horses in training each season.
64. The Queen's racing colours are: Purple body with gold braid, Scarlet sleeves and Black velvet cap with gold fringe.
65. In recognition of her interest in the sport, the Queen is Patron of a number of racing societies, including the Royal Pigeon Racing Association.
66. The Queen's wedding dress was designed by Sir Norman Hartnell and was woven at Winterthur Silks Limited, Dunfermline, in the Canmore factory, using silk that had come from Chinese silkworms at Lullingstone Castle.
67. The Queen's wedding ring was made from a nugget of Welsh gold which came from the Clogau St David's mine near Dolgellau.
68. The Queen's dressmakers over the years have included Sir Hardy Amies, Sir Norman Hartnell, Karl-Ludwig Couture and Maureen Rose. The Queen's hat-makers have been Frederick Fox, Philip Somerville and Marie O'Regan.
69. The Queen has the largest pink diamond in the world in her extensive jewellery collection.
70. The Queen has laid her wreath at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday every year of her reign, except in 1959, 1961, 1963, 1968, 1983 and 1999 when she was either pregnant or overseas on an official visit.
71. The Queen has visited the sets of Coronation Street, EastEnders and Emmerdale.
72. In 1997, The Queen launched Buckingham Palace's first official website.
73. In 1998, The Queen introduced "theme days" to promote and celebrate aspects of British culture.
74. In June, 2002, 200 million people watched on TV as the Queen hosted the first public concerts in the garden of Buckingham Palace to celebrate her Golden Jubilee.
75. The Queen is the first member of the Royal Family to be awarded a gold disc after 100,000 copies of the CD of the 'Party at the Palace' concert, were sold.
76. The Queen hosted the first women-only event "Women of Achievement" at Buckingham Palace in March, 2004.
77. In November 2004, The Queen invited the cast of Les Miserables in the West End to perform for French President Jacques Chirac at Windsor Castle.
78. The Queen acted in a number of Pantomimes during World War Two including playing the part of Prince Florizel in Cinderella in 1941.
79. In 2005, The Queen claimed ownership of 88 cygnets on the river Thames. They are looked after by the Swan Marker. The first Royal Swan Keeper was appointed around the 12th Century.
80. The Queen owns the sturgeons, porpoises whales and dolphins captured within three miles of UK shores. |
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