Yang Li: Hello, I'm Yang Li. In BBC Learning English today we are taking you to the new St. Pancras International.
Now I am standing here at the New St. Pancras station with lots of people taking photos. There are quite a few signature features here. The famous St. Pancras clock has been restored to its former glory. Under the big clock is this huge sculpture, about 9 metres high, of a couple kissing each other. The Champagne bar on the platform keeps people busy. But a very impressive technological achievement is the self-cleaning glass roof of the station that makes every corner of the station so bright. It's truly awesome to look at.
Yang Li at St. Pancras International
Oliver: 据报道，光是玻璃屋顶的装修就耗资一亿三千万英镑。
Yang Li: Good memory Oliver. It is the 14th of November, the first day the Eurostar trains will depart from the new terminal. I wonder what it is like being a first-day traveller?
Lovely seeing the arches in it all nice blue-painted, with the old brick work still retained there. They haven't gone and plastered it over with some different colour. Lovely lovely roof lights – superb – and outstanding is the clock they've got at the end – I've just been down and taken a photo of that. We're looking forward to going on Eurostar - we've been on Eurostar several times - but it's great to be here on the first day from St. Pancras. Such a lovely station – a very great occasion this is, lovely!
Yang Li: He also said that the roof lights are superb and the big clock is outstanding.
Oliver: The lights are superb 特别漂亮；the clock is outstanding 非常突出。
Yang Li: As a first-day traveller he feels this is a great occasion.
Oliver: 但是而对他夫人而言，她却觉得手捧一杯香槟，站在站台上那可是相当引人注目的。
Woman: So I thought it'll be the only time that I'm standing here on St. Pancras station with a glass of champagne!
Yang Li: Yes, they have this wonderful champagne bar – how do you like it?
Woman: Yes, I think it's wonderful! We have 4 hours in Paris, enough time for dinner, and then we come back home. We get home about 10 o'clock tonight.
A woman at St. Pancras International
Oliver: 哦，这对老夫妇会乘坐欧洲之星做一次当天往返的巴黎一日游！
Yang Li: Along the Champagne Bar, which is the longest in Europe, I met a couple of Londoners admiring this new landmark:
It's from the history of the building forward to the future of the building. And considering that this building is about 150 years old and we now hope it will be going forward for another 150 years. I just think it's quite amazing that we have this beautiful, beautiful, building, and it was in great difficulties from time to time, and now they've managed to bring it all together. And we now have the glory of the past going forward to the future.
A Londoner at St. Pancras International
Yang Li: She said that it is wonderful to have the glory of the past going forward to the future.
Oliver: Glory of the past 辉煌的过去。
Yang Li: Another visitor told me that the last time he came to St. Pancras was in 1944:
This is my second visit to the station and it's so different from 1944. My memories of the station overall are wartime – being evacuated from here – and seeing steam trains. Steam engines were lovely, and yet now – come here and I'm still enjoying it, even with smooth, electric-looking trains. But it's still got its old aura about it, which I like.
A Londoner at St. Pancras International
Yang Li: It was steam trains and steam engines that he remembered about St. Pancras station
发表于 2011-6-27 12:29
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