講講大英博物館的歷史，這里有多少件收藏品
今天的這段對話，在討論大英博物館，
講講大英博物館的歷史，這里有多少件收藏品
來聽今天的講解:
A: It's kind of you to show me round the British Museum, Can you tell me something about its history?
感謝你帶我參觀大英博物館。能給我講講它的歷史嗎？
B: Well. it was founded in 1753 0n the principle that people should be able to see in one placc art and antiquities from all the world's civilisations.
好的。大英博物館建于1753年．旨在讓人們能夠在一個地方同時看到來自世界各地的藝術(shù)品和古董文物。
A: So who founded it?
是誰建立的呢？
B: It was started by Sir Hans Sloane who had a coUection of over 71, 000 0bjects and not wishing them to be splir up or sold on his death. He bequeathed them to the nation in return for 20, 000 pounds.
是漢斯·斯隆爵士。他有71.000件收藏品，臨死時他不希望自己死后這些收藏被賣掉或流散到各地，兢以2萬英鎊的低價將全部蕺品遺贈給國家。
A: So do you know how many objects you have now?
那你知道這里有多少件收藏品嗎？
B: At the latest count there are approximately 7 million.
最近的數(shù)字表明大約有700萬件。
A: But I'm sure you cannot possibly show all of them.
但我肯定你們不可能把所有的收藏品都陳列來。
B: That's right. Some of them are in the process ofbeing restored, some are in store for future showing and some are being shown in museums or exhibitions around the world.
是的。有一些正在修復(fù)過程中，有一些被保存起來為了將來陳列用，還有一些正在世界各地的博物館或展覽會上展。
A: I saw one exhibition in Beijing art the Capital Museum in the summer of 2006 but I was surprised not to see any Chinese objects. Why was that?
2006年夏天我在北京首都博物館看過一次展覽，但很奇怪的是我沒看到一件中國收藏品。這是為什么呢？
B: Simply because China has better an than we have! No other reason.
只是因為中國的藝術(shù)品比我們國家的要好！沒別的原因。
A: Were you not afraid that China might want some of them back? After all many Chinese art held abroad were looted by foreign armies.
你們有沒有擔(dān)心過中國可能想要回一些藏品？畢竟陳列在國外的很多中國藝術(shù)品都是由外圍士兵從中國掠奪走的。
B: The vast majority of the Museum's collections have beeii acquired le8jtimately and thcy are openly displayed free of charge to the 5 million visitors we have every year.
博物館收藏的大多數(shù)藏品都是合法獲得的，而且它們都是免費展出的，每年我們都有500萬的游客參觀。
A: I know that the greek govemment wants the return of its statues from the Parthenon.
我知道希臘政府就想把他們的帕特農(nóng)神廟的雕像要回去。
B: The Elgin Marbles, as they are more commonly called , were purchased legally from the Ottoman Empire and rescued from further weather damage and held here on permanent display.
人們通常把它稱作“埃爾金大理石雕”，這也是當(dāng)年從奧斯曼帝國合法購買的，目的是避免其再遭受氣候的侵蝕，后來就永久地陳列在此。
A: Is there any possibility of further British Museum exhibitions in China?
大英博物館有沒有可能再到中國來舉辦展覽呢？
B: Yes, in 2007 we will be holding an exhibition that looks at the relationship between Britain and China in the 18th century.
有可能．2007年我們將舉辦一個以18世紀(jì)中英大系為主題的展覽會。
A: Where does the British Museum get its money from to look after the building, buy new pieces and hold exhibitions abroad?
大英博物館要維護建筑，購買新的展品以及在國外展覽，那資金都是哪兒來的?
B: 70 percent of our money comes from the govemment and the rest comes from donations and interest on our investments
70%的錢都是政府撥款，其它的是捐款和我們投資所得的利潤。
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