VOA标准英语2012--Olympic History on Display During London Games
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(八月)
Olympic History on Display During London Games
This year's Olympics stamp exhibit is at the large and popular British Library, where local residents and visitors have easy, and free, access. The displays focus on stamps and posters from London's two previous Olympics, in 1908 and 1948, and from the first modern Games in Athens in 1896. But they also include other types of artifacts.
Curator Bob Wilcock is particularly proud of a rare copy of the official poster for the 1908 London Olympics. But it is just one of thousands of pieces of history on display.
One of Wilcock's favorite postcards features Thomas Jack 1, the man who was leading the marathon in 1908, but stopped off at a pub along the way and never finished the race.
There is so much to sort through that the library has put all of these very analog 2 artifacts into a digital database 3. Visitors can touch a series of large screens and go right to the year or event that interests them.
The exhibit also has an outdoor element, with Wilcock and other experts answering visitors' questions and selling 2012 Olympics stamps and postcards so people can make their own memorabilia.
For the curator, that is really what collecting and displaying Olympics items is all about.
"It can be something for everybody," added Wilcock. "It's a means of preserving your individual, personal Olympic memories, the story of your visit to a Games. And in the process, you are also able to tell Olympic history."
It's probably not the first thing people think about when they plan a trip to the Olympics. But the exhibit offers a respite 4 from the competition and the crowds, and a chance to reflect on the sweep of Olympic history, of which London 2012 is just the latest installment 5.
- I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
- He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
- The analog signal contains high-frequency video information,which helps make up the picture.模拟信号包括有助于构成图像的高频视频信息。
- The analog computer measures continuously,without proceeding step by step.模拟计算机不是一步一步地进行，而是连续地进行量度。
- I discovered some new information in the database.我在资料库里发现了一些新信息。
- We planned to build an online database.我们计划建一个联机数据库。
- She was interrogated without respite for twenty-four hours.她被不间断地审问了二十四小时。
- Devaluation would only give the economy a brief respite.贬值只能让经济得到暂时的缓解。
- I shall soon pay the last installment of my debt.不久我将偿付我的最后一期债款。
- He likes to buy things on the installment plan.他喜欢用分期付款法购买货物。